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Originally Posted by elie
Thanx for the suggestions!
Maybe I 'll try on the internet? And by the way, is there a site where I can find old footage, like the ones you mentioned? My fiance found Torvill&Dean (after years and years of me talking about it!), but other than that, I don't know.
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Just few days ago I discovered this place
http://fsvids.9.forumer.com/
where ice skating fans can upload and download the videos of their favourite artists, it's really amazing and the reposts are almost non stop. You can find a lot of great footage here. About Duchesnay and Klimova - Ponomarenko (Unfortunately I have them only on vhs) I've just posted the requests in their threads. Hopefully they will appear soon. As soon as someone uploads them again I'll let you know.
Edit: that site is incredible, they already posted both:
Here are Paul & Isabelle Duchesnay:
http://s54.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1...Q13FFEN63RW73Y
Okay, a little explanation maybe is needed to understand better what they did. Here there is the 1990 World Championship program, called Missing (it's dedicated to desaparecidos in South America), and skated on Morricone's soundtrack for Mission. What they did was a real revolution in ice dance. Technically they weren't perfect as the Russians and they broke several rules so couldn't win the golden medal. BUt even being a big Klimova-Ponomarenko fan as I am, it was clear they deserved it for the emotions, the vitality and the modernity they brought thanks to Christopher Dean choreography and stunning vision. A year later at the world championship they presented Missing II, and since some rules had been changed in the meanwhile this time they won, but it was becoming clear their limit, the inability to change from a scheme. My Russians obviously were crashed by arriving second and risked to split. But luckily they decided to say goodbye to Dubova and took Tarassova as trainer. She was able to fuse the Duchesnay's novelty elements (they're very present in the Bach program) with a renewed harmony and close to perfection technique (besides the incredible intensity, that they had never reached at that peak before, their skating at the Olympic Games was mesmerizing, totally new also for the velocity and the incredible number of steps and their velocity), so Marina and Sergei's revenge took place at Albertville on Bach's Toccata and Fugue.
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http://s52.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1...O2FUTA0ASBET6P
They've been able to win the golden medal in Duchesnay kingdom with this. You can feel the change of mood in the public from the start to the final. It still gives me the same deep emotion (at the time I started jumping around when they won )... incredible.
Gotta love Ice skating
Romy