peoples, places and things

[roshnise]

[violetallnight]

Tessa Virtue & Scott Moir - The Great Gig in the Sky Free Dance

[2009 Four Continents Championship]

[indefinableship]

Eight years later.

[thatonekimgirl]

the hugs that come after the moulin rouge ending pose are truly a gift

[thevirtuemoirlovers]

8 years since they won gold!…memories 

[radiowings]

imagine you're a slowly aging defenceman loyal to the one team that drafted you for your entire entire career that's been cursed for decades and you were supposed to fix it but no matter what you do it's never enough and you keep failing and failing to grasp any success beyond your fingertips and then everything blows up and now your team is having the worst season it's had in a decade and everything is slipping through your fingers and then through your misery your wonderful fellow athlete wife who you even have a kid and a lovely family with and who was the biggest thing in history in a certain pair sport recommends you a show that's been making waves that's based on your profession so of course you watch it and it really seems to be similar to your wife's life and you can totally see why she relates to it and you're also in it except you're not shane or ilya you are rose landry. and everybody knows. happened to my buddy morgan reilly

[hamletteprinceofdenmark]

The thing about virtuemoir is that they, above any other pair of dancers I've ever come across, understand that the routine is both a dance and a story.

They move completely in unison and conversation not only with each other but the music and the ice. They are mere conduits. Mere vessels.

They move with their chosen medium. They match each gesture and position with the swell and beat of their songs. In a display of extreme skill, it seems effortless. But no one else has ever matched their competence.

[katzell]

Listen, listen. Tessa and Scott are the inversion of the Heated Rivalry. Instead of seeing each other briefly over the years they saw each constantly for years. Instead of not being able to touch in public their whole professional career was communicating compatibility and passion through carefully choreographed physicality. No one wants the rivals to get together. Everyone wants Tessa and Scott to get together. Somehow both situations lead to decades of peak yearning only Tessa and Scott break my heart. You see my vision

[saucylittlesmile]

16 years of Olympics.

[musaliya]

Jesus Christ, Scott

[roshnise]

[roshnise]

A funny lil Tessa and Scott story from 2018 Olys

[virtchandmoir]

January 5, 2026

But at their first practice sessions with such elite teams, the siblings were intimidated by being on the same ice as the champion couples and instinctively stuck by the boards. Alex remembers Moir skating over to tell them that the ice belonged to them as much as it did the other teams who were there. “I’m surprised they remember that,” says Moir. “I certainly didn’t! But we all understood the importance of the training environment and wanted people to feel welcome, take their space, and bring their own energy.” [...] Moir recalls trying to navigate the heightened emotions that come with elite-level competition with Virtue, even as people made assumptions about their relationship. “They said, ‘You are in love, you’re dating.’ We never had a relationship off the ice, but our strength was our relationship,” he says. “It’s the most beautiful part of ice dancing—having to be in perfect unison with someone, having to deal with the human aspect but still perform, and how to be there for someone when they need you the most. How did we get there? It was ugly. It was hard work.” For Virtue and Moir, it took marriage counseling–the closest type of support they could find for an ice-dance team at the time–as well as mental coaching. Moir says that 10 months before their first Olympic appearance, in 2010 in Vancouver, they had an argument that created such a breach of trust that they didn’t speak to each other or skate together for a week. “I know it sounds cliche,” says Moir, “but we didn’t communicate our feelings and that ended up leading to a lot of resentment.”

—Time

[violetallnight]

Tessa Virtue and Scott Moire - Moulin Rouge routine

[Thank You Canada Tour, 2018]

[virtsmoir]

When Tess had that bad injury and couldn’t train and couldn’t be out on the ice for such a long period of time, you didn’t pick up another partner to go through your routines. You trained with a sandbag. Well, when you have the best partner in the world there’s no other girl that you can just throw in there.

[scottsflow]

There’s just such a sense of pride

[virtuesmile]

“no matter what, we’re together. and no matter what, i love you.”

[swiftbejeweled]