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Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean perform an ice dancing routine in matching purple costumes at the 1984 Winter Olympics, with Dean kneeling and Torvill gliding beside him.

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Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean perform an ice dancing routine in matching purple costumes at the 1984 Winter Olympics, with Dean kneeling and Torvill gliding beside him. — Ice dancing perfection The British ice-dancing team of Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean making history at the 1984 Winter Games in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia (now in Bosnia and Herzegovina). Torvill and Dean won the gold medal for their performance to Ravel's Bolero, receiving perfect scores for artistic impression from all nine Olympic judges.

Ice dancing is a sport where pairs of ice skaters perform routines to music, similar to ballroom dances. Unlike pairs skating, ice dancers focus on intricate footwork and body movements that express dance on ice, rather than jumps and overhead lifts. Competitions typically include compulsory dances with prescribed music and steps, an original dance to a chosen rhythm, and a free dance with music and choreography selected by the skaters. The International Skating Union (ISU) governs the sport. Ice dancing became an Olympic sport in 1976.12345

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Ice dance
Ice dance is similar to pairs in that two people skate together, but, unlike pairs, ice dancers do not do jumps and do only certain kinds of lifts. Instead, ice dancers focus on creating footwork and body movements that express dance on ice.
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Ice dance is similar to pairs in that two people skate together, but, unlike pairs, ice dancers do not do jumps and do only certain kinds of lifts. Instead, ice dancers focus on creating footwork and body movements that express dance on ice.
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Torvill and Dean
… who revolutionized the sport of ice dancing. At the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia (now in Bosnia and Herzegovina), Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean performed a free-dance interpretation of Maurice Ravel’s Boléro that earned them a gold medal and an unprecedented perfect score of 6.0 for artistic impression from…
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… who revolutionized the sport of ice dancing. At the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia (now in Bosnia and Herzegovina), Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean performed a free-dance interpretation of Maurice Ravel’s Boléro that earned them a gold medal and an unprecedented perfect score of 6.0 for artistic impression from…
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Distinguishing dance from other patterned movement
…in its contemporary form of ice dance competition, is more difficult to distinguish from dance, because both aesthetic and expressive qualities are important. But at the same time, there are certain rules that have to be followed more stringently in ice skating than in dance, and once again the governing…
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…in its contemporary form of ice dance competition, is more difficult to distinguish from dance, because both aesthetic and expressive qualities are important. But at the same time, there are certain rules that have to be followed more stringently in ice skating than in dance, and once again the governing…
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Pioneers of the sport
…hard winter of 1662, modern ice dancing most likely developed out of the Vienna Skating Club’s adaptation of the waltz in the 1880s. The sport grew rapidly in popularity during and after the 1930s. Although the first U.S. national championship for ice dancing was held in 1914, it did not…
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…hard winter of 1662, modern ice dancing most likely developed out of the Vienna Skating Club’s adaptation of the waltz in the 1880s. The sport grew rapidly in popularity during and after the 1930s. Although the first U.S. national championship for ice dancing was held in 1914, it did not…
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