Skating Moments #4
Apr. 29th, 2012 09:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
helsinkibabyTorvill and Dean, Mack and Mabel
OK, so when people think of T&D, they think of many things, most notably Bolero. But for my money, Mack and Mabel is just as good a routine, and a heck of a lot more upbeat and fun. (And it's got the train in it!) But as Chris Dean says in the intro to this video, it was a breakthrough routine for them - yes, they may have won worlds the season beforehand, but this program was the first time that they'd ever taken one piece of music and used it for the full four minutes; it was a new and unusual departure in the world of ice dancing, though it's de rigeur now. (The season before, their program was four difference pieces of music, only two of which I remember off the top of my head; Red Sails in the Sunset and Hot Lunch Jam from the movie Fame) This is a program that literally changed the face of ice dance as we know it.
Plus? Jayne's skirt? Ostrich feathers dyed gold!
OK, so when people think of T&D, they think of many things, most notably Bolero. But for my money, Mack and Mabel is just as good a routine, and a heck of a lot more upbeat and fun. (And it's got the train in it!) But as Chris Dean says in the intro to this video, it was a breakthrough routine for them - yes, they may have won worlds the season beforehand, but this program was the first time that they'd ever taken one piece of music and used it for the full four minutes; it was a new and unusual departure in the world of ice dancing, though it's de rigeur now. (The season before, their program was four difference pieces of music, only two of which I remember off the top of my head; Red Sails in the Sunset and Hot Lunch Jam from the movie Fame) This is a program that literally changed the face of ice dance as we know it.
Plus? Jayne's skirt? Ostrich feathers dyed gold!
