Documentary about Lyudmila Pakhomova and Alexander Gorshkov

[vivika1982]

For those who are interested few documentaries /in good quality/about Pakhomova/Gorshkov .They all are in Russian language but at least we can enjoy watching many of their gracious routines .

Return of the Dreams
Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exZIwCV8cLQ
Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jn9nLDnWj-Q
Part3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVG6SARUL4o


Ice and Fantasy
Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hz2OK3-YLc
Part2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGcvNYPB3kI

Ice Dance: Pakhomova and Gorshkov- “Interrupted Tango”
Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtYg77nO8S8
Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB76Kwlfv-Q

[skatesindreams]

Thanks for posting these!

[Civic]

Didn't they and their coach invent the Tango Romantica compulsorary dance?

[Fashionista]

They did.

[pumba]

Though I've seen this before - thanks for posting, vivika!
The great skaters like them deserve respect and attention.

[extension]

Some of these have such high quality video of rare moments, I am tempted to repost one in the youtube thread. Watching these, especially the film aired on the 'Nostalgia' network (the one w/the hammer/sickle logo) makes me indeed romanticize the past, albeit politically repressive and unknown to me, just for the beauty of their artistic expression. We get so caught up in point counting nowadays, calculating the URs, the timing of lifts, the effects of the constantly changing rules in this sport... Just watching these two dance takes me to a different dimension. Also... I understand dance and society change, but I would prefer if some recent drama-prone Russian ice dancers (such as Domnina, or Pasha, of course) could take a few lessons in overall behaviour from this bygone era...