Uploaded November 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
One of the reasons I started my channel so many years ago was to preserve the visual history of the sport. When it comes to Ice Dance, that history is woefully under-represented and I want to change that. It is only by looking to the past that we can fully appreciate the present and the journey it took to get to this point. Here are two of the early pioneers of Ice Dance winning the 1956 European title - Pamela Weight & Paul Thomas of Great Britain, a pair who Courtney Jones once said were the first to emphasise the dance of Ice Dance.
This was silent cinefilm footage which I have added period ice dance music to, to give a flavour of what ice dance was like in its earliest days. This was only the third European Championship in Ice Dance - the first being in 1954 which also featured Paul Thomas with his previous partner Nesta Davies where they won silver behind the late great Jean Westwood and Lawrence Demmy.
One of the reasons I started my channel so many years ago was to preserve the visual history of the sport. When it comes to Ice Dance, that history is woefully under-represented and I want to change that. It is only by looking to the past that we can fully appreciate the present and the journey it took to get to this point. Here are two of the early pioneers of Ice Dance winning the 1956 European title - Pamela Weight & Paul Thomas of Great Britain, a pair who Courtney Jones once said were the first to emphasise the dance of Ice Dance.
This was silent cinefilm footage which I have added period ice dance music to, to give a flavour of what ice dance was like in its earliest days. This was only the third European Championship in Ice Dance - the first being in 1954 which also featured Paul Thomas with his previous partner Nesta Davies where they won silver behind the late great Jean Westwood and Lawrence Demmy.
