Marina Anissina-Gwendal Peizerat - Romeo and Juliet -Prokofiev -1998 OLYMPICS FD

[ingobluelol]

they totally ripped off twarvel and dean

[hyerkill]

it's amazing how they interpret the music ...

[hyerkill]

oh my god, I rememember watching this with my mum and i was 5 years old. This one amazed me a lot, this passion overwhelmed me back then and it made the same happened a while ago. I still think this is one is one of the most beautiful things i've seen.

[MelanieOnly]

My goodness :O It is perfect, marvellous.

[jani1109]

HERMOSOS LOS RUSOS, SIEMPRE HAN SIDO Y SERAN LOS AMOS Y SEÑORES DEL PATINAJE SOBRE HIELO..... ESPECTACULAR

[ut0rnp]

the movements never stop, everything is fluid, the skating is fluid with exquisite transitions, grand bravo marina et gwendal, i can 't stop watching this

[ut0rnp]

I also miss this dancing, judges have killed ice dancing because instead being into sport and art they were in money they want to get, useless patriotism, lobbying which way far from this master piece of sport and art. the movement are very fluid in this iceballet, the amrina and gwendal design images that stay in our mind, we can identified the emotions and the things that they wan to show us. M & G we will never forget you

[Danfenixunico]

Marina y Gwendal, siempre serán los mejores por su historia que les precede y aún con lo que están haciendo en la actulidad, siempre serán los Dioses del hielo!

[LilblondeIrishgirl]

Until Anissina and Peizerat, I did not like Ice Dancing at all. This couple was incredible. To this day, I have yet to see a couple as awesome as they were! Todays Ice Dancers are good, but Anissina and Peizerat were spectacular!

[KOcreative8991]

the guy ih HOT!!

[jarebika]

I love dance on ice,it,s so beautiful !!!

[shineluvslambiel]

It's so easy to love this team. the musicality, the expression, the passion......

[M0onlightKiss]

i had this on vhs !

[moonwalkeuse76]

superbe

[xanglat]

Totalement transcendant !

SUBLIME

Avec reconnaissance pour ce partage ineffable d'émotions, de beauté et de grand talent ! Quel "travail" !!

DIVIN

[Julien788]

on dirait qu'ils volent ... flying 

[nightswimmer99]

So beautiful - and so electric. A pity we can't capture the spark between these two dancers and harness it; we could solve the world's energy needs.

We have some marvelous couples to watch currently, but this pair would have been special in any era.

[sookie250]

a ballet !!! a ballet on ice, emotioanal, wonderful, tragedic, you can feel real romeo and juliette here on ice

definitly the best ice dance couple i see, i remenber had school the day after their performance but i watched tv til 4 a.m (france) to see my favorites i didnt sleepjust to see them live oooh how fantastic they were and they still ffor ever

[freezzertime]

what was she thinking at 0:9?

[TheIcomeforyou]

Really beautiful! Perfection on ice. What an excellent performance!

Many thanks for sharing this video!

[sookie250]

@TheIcomeforyou o yèèè many thinks!!!

[feuille2niggle]

@MinaVanBelle Making a figure lift this way was the Annissina-Peiwerat signature. You can check other of their programs -- in Carmina Burana it fits just so well...

[abeer289]

wawawawawawaw

[hyperbot11]

Torvill and Dean's Bolero was a Romeo and Juliet story too...i quite prefer theirs though...nevertheless this one is a very good one! nice story telling!

[quackfctry]

i switched here after watching 2011 european championship medal dances which were actually quite boring... i wanted to remember those IMHO "best years" of story-telling ice-dancing... for me Anissina/Peizerat are the best- Les Meuilleurs - forever...

(BTW - funny that this video is from my national TV station - Czech TV - but the users subtitle says kalitechniko patinaz in greek :-) so multicultural...)

[ElidellaGeek]

Hermosoooooooooooooo!! Me encantaaaaaaaaan!! :D

[nailzaniza]

Marina Anissina-Gwendal Peizerat são excelente muito lindo esse casal, gostaria

muito ver uma apresentação nem que saiba um ensaio avivo.

Boa sorte queridos.

[girlcandream]

I haven't watched this number in years. I forgot how sensual it was!

[venusis3]

Ils ont l'ai tellement à l'aise sur la pise, dans leur chorégraphie et leur jeune ! Comme des poissons dans l'eau, contrairement aux patineurs de maintenant !!! J'ai jamais vu meilleurs qu'eux dans l'interprétation !

[grade8singer1988]

Are these to married??

Wouldn't suprise me.

Because this free skating is absolutly beautiful to watch!

[Emelysss]

@grade8singer1988: They are not married and never even dated, but the chemistry between these two is still amazing. Wonderful skaters, one of the best couples ever !

[grade8singer1988]

@Emelysss I certinly agree with you there. They are wonderful to watch :)

[bellerofonte1975]

the best ever...

Marina & Gwendal.

[vietgrlterifa1]

I think this was the best Free Dance of the whole 1995-1998 quad. This is actually my personal favorite Anissina/Peizerat dance.

[sonnengeflecht43]

@vietgrlterifa1

no, my favourit dancers were

grishuk /platow

till today.... it was great.

anissima und peizerat were very good, yes but grishuk platow were great.

[wonderingheights]

Found it!!! I must have been fourteen when I saw this dance on tv years ago, and I NEVER forgot it. It, along with a few Kwan moments, have been the MOST memorable pieces I have ever seen. Brilliant, simple, athletic, amazing stage presence. It's all there. Thank you for posting it.

[psychohunter1]

Ahh this is what Ice dancing should be...but,,the best ever were Torvil and Dean.(bolero)

[MYunsen]

I was watching 2010 Olympics, and completely missed them as today's programs are filled with point-gainning silly elements that break up the flow. I miss ice-dancing as an art, like this performance. They are my favorite pair ever. I can just watch them skating the simplest lines all day. They move my heart.

Thank you for the vid.

[BourbonAnakin]

That was the best ice dancing ever seen - I couldn't believe that anyone could beat it - I still don't.

[scarymonster33]

Still prefer the Canadian "Riverdance" entry for that year.

[peachcat001]

I forgot just how amazing this piece was when they danced it. It is so good to see it again.

[Greensleeves1984]

Thanks for uploading!

[russianjewels]

I miss this kind of ice dancing! Their dance wasn't just movement, it was poetry, emotion, tragedy. They rival with ballet dancers! Impressive!

[StewNWT]

@russianjewels I love their expression and thought they were great, but I really don't miss this era of ice dance where so little dance was actually incorporated into the routines. Punsalen and Swallow were the best dance team of the time but they were constantly relegated to 6th place. Krylova and Obsianokov (sp?) were also excellent

[russianjewels]

@StewNWT I agree for Krylova and Ovsianikov, I owe them my love for ice dancing. What I wanted to say was that, in my opinion, some 10 years ago ice dancers used to be much more dramatic, unlike nowadays, when so much emphasis is put on technique

[StewNWT]

@russianjewels but unlike, say, the men's and women's singles free program, I really don't feel dance suffers for it. The Virtue/Moir & Davis/White, even Belbin-Agosto and Canadians Dubreuil/Lauzon before they retired, all showed you could have amazing passion and drama while still incorporating difficult elements that add to, rather than detract from the programs. Let's face it, as nice as some of the 10 years ago programs are, they're gapingly empty and judging was much more subjective

[accw]

@StewNWT Virtue/Moir sure, Davis/White to a certain extent, but Belbin/Agosto??? I don't know anyone who thinks they showed amazing passion and drama... As for Dubreuil/Lauzon, they were okay but they put too much focus on lifts, that's not what ice dance should be about.

[hellokittyjfh]

@russianjewels they actually do rival with dancers here...not like today...

[charlyxz]

SUBLIME...Beautiful woman Marina Anissina !!! =)

[jojo26111]

a very romantic, sensitive and full of pasion dance and two unique, amazing and wonderful ice dancers, for me the best!

My second favourite routine after "Liberta"!

[Thorvaldgr]

Μα στη κυριολεξία Ρωμαίος και Ιουλιέτα ε? Πόσο γλυκά γλιστρούσαν και πόσο πόθο εξέπεμπαν τα σώματα τους.Συγκινήθηκα.Μπράβο Νίκο.5*****

[ETTA48]

Thanks, Nikos!

All the lost videos on tube with Marina and Gwendal are coming back now you upload them again.

Feels like being visited by Santa... :)

Beautiful music! And I love it to see these two dancers expressing this music.

When I compare this performance with the Carmina Burana from years later you can see in that one how immense they grew in their expressions, their skills.

And Beauty, spiritual and physical. Both.

And I am fond of his hair.

[Gadoelka]

I have seen them dancing so many many times, and always with a deep soul connection: the way they perform the dance is so real, so intense, that it is difficult to accept that they are not pretending to be lovers, they understand the Art of Dancing so excellent that Real Love can be expressed, and I never saw it somewhere else, not even in the most excellent performances from even the most excellent ballet dancers.

One big reason is the choreograph.

He creates the Dance.

A unique Master.