Torvill and Dean

I wanna read some quotes, um, from Jane Torvill and Christopher Dean about this team, who was really their biggest influence on their skating.

And I feel like Moiseeva and Minenkov, they, you know, they, they were respected in their time, but then as Torvill and Dean rose to prominence and t- and lauded them so much, I think that their skating was looked back on with, like, new respect and reverence, because this great team pointed to them.

Um, so, uh, Torvill and Dean said in their book, um, "We just watched them open-mouthed.

They came from a tradition totally different from the false, staid, upright background that was familiar to u- familiar to us, the postures and steps that had dominated ice dancing for a decade, since before we started.

Um, they were tall, balletic, as remote and glorious as creatures from another planet.

That's not ballroom." And then we kept having these big theatrical steps forward, and then there'd be a big pushback.

Mm.

And I feel like this team was really pushed, and then Torvill and Dean did the big step forward, and then the ISU was like, "No more of that.