Isabelle-Paul Duchesnay OSP 1988 World Championships

Isabelle & Paul Duchesnay of France captured the crowd with this segment of the dance competition.

[@martinegavalet870]

Je suis peut-être réac, mais pour moi les Duchesnay, ont été hyper novateur !!!!!!!! Et depuis, je ne vois plus d'innovation. Peut-être que je ne suis absolument pas honnête, mais je suis restée sur leurs performances qui étaient éblouissantes !!!!!!!!!!!

[@haroldchipman8590]

Tango dancing doesn't get any better than this .... ever ...

[@nedys3703]

I migliori di sempre nn c'è altro da aggiungere indimenticabili 🎉

[@tedsler]

WOW!!! I loved their "Missing" routine and this had me shivering as well Thanks for posting!

[@tally1604]

One of the best tangos in ice dance history. Up there with rakama/kokko (sp?)

[@dmp7252]

Thanks for posting. Anyone who says this dance is not technically difficult is not paying attention. It was meticulously choreographed by the legendary Christopher Dean. Also, this is NOT an easy piece to SKATE to. I mean, just look at the nuance in the position at 4:16. Look at Paul's edge, look at Isabelle's edge, look at where he's looking, look at where she's looking. That frame could literally be a painting that tells one heck of a story. 4:19 to 4:44 ART. Why? It's the way the choreography works with the music. The way he turns her by touching her head. 4:18 to 4:22 particularly is a brilliant moment in ice dancing. 2:36 to 2:42 again, brilliant choreography. The audience is cheering as if someone just landed a triple jump. This is far and away the best tango I have ever seen on ice. And more than 30+ years later it has yet to been equaled. What so many may never get is that the magic in this tango comes from so much more than the very steps we SEE. The Duchensays have always exhibited a very finely attuned sense of culture. They are very French in this sense. Intellectually and artistically, they were light years ahead of the competition and the sport for that matter.

[@isabelleduchesnay]

Thank you DMP, you are so sweet ! Yes, Dean took 2 days to give us ideas and flew back to the UK. The rest was up to Paul and myself . We had such fun putting all our inner feelings into that dance !!!! ****Wish you had been a judge !! LOL !!!

[@NEFERTITI100]

époustouflant exceptionnel tango les meilleurs mais tout de suite on voit la patte de CHRISTOPHER DEAN le meilleur choré in the world..fabuleux isabelle et paul pour ce sublime tango jamais vu en patinage !!merci

[@nuno7588]

Et la magnifique patte d'Isabelle et de Paul, fabuleux interprètes!

[@NEFERTITI100]

@@nuno7588j'ai adoré ce couple qui a arrêté trop tôt dégouté par ce qui c'était passé au JO D ALBERTVILLE ! vous le savez avant de rentrer sur la glace on leur avait dit qu'ils seraient 2ème derrière les russes point barre ...! d'ailleurs cela c'était vu aux visages fermés de paul et isabelle comme vous pour moi the best dancers in the world même à l'heure actuelle quel dommage de ne plus voir ce genre de danseurs sur glace maintenant c'est guignolesque circus prono vulgaire grave terrible

[@nuno7588]

Ils ont toujours été injustement mal notés. Les juges sadiques les ont décapités à souhait. Ils étaient trop beaux, trop forts, trop novateurs. Isabelle et Paul restent pour toujours la fine fleur, le gratin, le dessus du panier, la crème de la crème en patinage. Personne ne les a surpassés. Bravissimo à eux. On les regrette.

[@NEFERTITI100]

exact ils ont été volé pour l'or ils le savaient avant d'aller sur la glace on leur avait dit ce sont les russes en or klimova/pono honteux comme en 2018 pour GABY ET GUILLAUME face aux lourdingues kanadiens MOIR/VIRTUE MAGOUILLES avec leur juge LEANA CARON qui était aussi prst de la fédé KANADIENNE CHERCHEZ L ERREUR

[@Fatima502]

Oh how I wish Chris Dean would choreograph a new world-class couple

[@touminsitai]

何でこの人たちの演技はいつも楽しいのだろう。 子ども時代を本当に思い出す

[@anne-marieseguier864]

ils interprètent magnifiquement ce tango original, contemporain, créé pour eux par Cristopher Dean... musique Armando Truvajoli

[@cleftheart]

For a brother and sister, that tango is pretty hot! :-D

[@signorinakitty]

brillanti, convincenti, su ohni passo, sempre dentro il pezzo

[@marinagamm1951]

❤🎉❤

[@martineaube4342]

Merci Christopher Dean !!

[@nuno7588]

Merci Isabelle et Paul.

[@franckvielcazal9799]

300 points!

[@muscleboi4use]

@bearmare Christopher Dean's sublime choreography.

[@KevinInScotland]

Difficult to say but one thing for sure is that turning a traditional dance on hard floor in to an ice dance was not easy, especially as they have to put their legs in awkward places in keeping with the dance. I suppose the other dancers did all kinds of moves not seen in this dance. How things have changed with the scoring and cameras & walking about.

[@J.Eden.]

Oh gorgeous!!! what's tango?

[@muscleboi4use]

@lillis0405 Really? Chris Dean choreographed their routines from 1988-92 is the commonly held belief. How do you know it was Martin Skotnicky? I thought he was their trainer.

[@Porporinablu]

@bearmare That genious, in fact, has a name: Christopher Dean

[@tuxtommy69]

The OSP tempo selected for 1988 was indeed "TANGO". However, this was NOT a tango. This was an APACHE dance, right down to the costuming, choreographed & skated extremely well.

[@azbycx56]

Apache? Interesting, that might explain why the judges held back. However, having looked at some examples of Apache dance on KZbin this seems nothing like it, and in fact strikes me as a very good depiction of a tango with quite a few authentic tango moves.

[@isabelleduchesnay]

Sorry to disappoint you Tom....it was definitely NOT an APACHE. TOTALY NOT !

[@lillis0405]

@muscleboi4use I´m sry, Martin Skotnicky from Czech was choreography.

[@ЯковлеваЕлена-ю9ю]

М.Скотницки-тренер этой пары,он же и пригласил в 1988 году Кристофера Дина в качестве хореографа для этой пары

[@user3.5513]

Tien