Torvill and Dean’s farewell tour Our Last Dance to call at skaters’ Nottingham hometown alongside Olympic medallists and TV stars
Two of the county’s most famous sportspeople are to celebrate their 50-year partnership surrounded by Olympic medallists, TV stars, and young athletes.
Legends of the ice Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean are on their final UK tour this year, Our Last Dance, and will perform alongside an incredible cast of Dancing on Ice skaters, Olympic medallists, and talented future stars.
Our Last Dance commemorates 50 years since Torvill and Dean formed their skating partnership, and is the last chance audiences will have to watch the pair in action on the ice together, before they hang up their skates for good.
The audience will be taken on a journey through their incredible career — which boasts their Gold medal winning performance to Ravel’s Bolero at the 1984 Winter Olympics — with a nostalgic look at the 70s and 80s, including newly choreographed routines.
Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean said: “We are thrilled our farewell tour welcomes some familiar faces that will delight Dancing on Ice fans as well as top athletes and future stars. It’s a pleasure to showcase talented young skating couples who will recreate memories live on the ice of how our story started at 15 years old. It’s 50 years since our skating partnership began, so now is the right time to say goodbye and end on a high.
“Whilst we will continue to work together off the ice, this will be the last time we will skate together. We want to thank all our fans whose support spans five decades by putting on an amazing final live show – we really hope to see you there.”
The thrilling line-up joining Torvill and Dean on their farewell tour includes Dancing on Ice stars Annette Dytrt, Mark Hanretty, Vanessa James, Vanessa Bauer, Alexandra Schauman, Andy Buchanan, Robin Johnstone, Sylvain Longchambon, Eric Radford, Lukasz Rozycki, and Dan Whiston.
The tour will also see Olympics silver medallists Tim Koleto and Misato Komatsubara, and bronze medal winning Mirai Nagasu, and figure skater Philip Warren.
Also, young skating duos Isla Forsyth and Lewis Macdonald, and Darcy Walshaw and Hugo Brooks, will portray Torvill and Dean as they recreate routines from their teenage years, and there will be appearences from skating stars of the future James Hernandez and Phebe Bekker, Luke Digby, and Anastasia Vaipan-Law.
