Christopher Dean

Christopher Dean, with Jayne Torvill, gave us Boléro at the 1984 Sarajevo Olympics, and that routine is still the gold standard for what ice dance can be, an unbroken, hypnotic four and a half minutes that earned a row of perfect sixes. I think their genius was treating skating as genuine theatre rather than athletics with music. Dean was the choreographer, the architect of those programs, and a 1994 bronze in Lillehammer proved their staying power. For an entire generation in Britain, Torvill and Dean were sport. Knighted and honored, he remains the rare figure who changed how a discipline is judged.

Name (English)

Christopher Dean

Name (Japanese)

クリストファー・ディーン

Reading

くりすとふぁー・でぃーん

Born

July 27, 1958 (age 68)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Dog

Origin

Nottingham, United Kingdom

Height

180 cm

Occupation

figure skating choreographer / ice dancer / figure skating coach

Awards & achievements

• 2000 Officer of the Order of the British Empire
• 1984 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award
• 1981 Member of the Order of the British Empire

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3

Tags

• figure skating choreographer
• ice dancer
• figure skating coach

Last updated

2026-06-02

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