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Christopher Dean and Jayne Torvill: how we made Boléro

by Interviews By Nancy Groves

'It was a volcano erupting " we had to climb to the very top before throwing ourselves into eternity'We had won three world championships by the time the 1984 Winter Olympics came around, so we were in a position to take a real risk. Even though it is a piece of classical music, Jayne and I knew our choice of Ravel's Boléro would be seen as radical. Most skating music goes fast-slow-fast, building to a finish with a…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 4:48pm on March 12, 2017