1983 Daphnis & Chloe (Peggy Fleming John Curry)

[tinymavy]

ahhh Daphnis and Chloe, one of my favorite pieces of music of all time. Perfect choreography!

[muscleboi4use]

Just beautiful. Ballet on ice.

Thank you for this, and ALL your posts. Being British my love of figure skating started with John Curry and Robin Cousins. My heros of course, are Jayne Torvill and Chris Dean!

ALL your posts and insightful comments are just so great. THANK you.

[k9henrydog]

Glad you have found them! Posting turned out to be a real joy recovering from chemo...750 videos later I feel closer to skating than ever...and have so many wonderful friends the world over....of which I now add you!! Hope this year is a good one for skating.....and you. best wishes rick

[muscleboi4use]

You certainly can count me as a friend. Your uploads are a joy. U manage to find early/obscure/unusual routines that seem to epitomise the essence and/or potetial of the figure skater or dance/pair team's particular qualities.

Hoping 2010 will be a wonderful year for you, (and for figure skating!)

[Rouben19]

so Stunning - Peggy was very fond of John and wrote wonderful things about him.... sorry John died

[k9henrydog]

as are millions of others.....thanks for commenting, best wishes

[nolaughingmatter]

Aside from the 1968 Olympics, I've never seen anything else by Peggy. John and Peggy were gorgeous to watch. I would be so intimated to skate with John though.... how can anyone match that line? Peggy skated beautifully though.

[k9henrydog]

There is a lot of Peggy on YOUTUBE! You can catch up now with your viewing!! Yes, I'll bet John Curry was 'fussy' if nothing else.....but it's all about putting your vision on the ice......I'm sure 'your' artistry is of merit and interest as well. Maybe you should take some video of John, and then superimpose YOU skating with him.......such performances are possible these days of high technology!!! best wishes

[nolaughingmatter]

Thanks for your kind words, k9henrydog :)

[quillerpen]

Another piece of John's work that I had never seen. Thank you SO much!

[floskate]

Got it - this is Daphnis & Chloe by Ravel!!!! Seriously I'm in awe of this - it's achingly beautiful.

[skatesindreams]

I am stunned by the beauty of this! Like floskate, I had no idea that this existed. I'm SO grateful that you shared it.

If you have more Curry, please post!

[floskate]

Hi there - thanks for posting a new John Curry clip. This isn't Tilt-a-Whirl which I have seen and is very contemporary in style and fast too. Is this an exhibition from the 1983 or 84 International Professional Figure Skating Championships? I know John skated a solo in this copetition to La Valse which is absolutely wonderful but had no idea this exhibition existed.

[k9henrydog]

Glad you enjoyed this..I will keep an eye out for TILIT A WHIRL and the Curry solo as well.

[floskate]

Oh I have those - will upload now :)