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The duo have consistently thrived under the pressure of competition, claiming national and world titles. In 2009, they made history by becoming the first to receive a 10.0 in dance in international competition.
Whether side-by-side during training, touring with Stars on Ice or filming Tessa & Scott a documentary-style television series about their lives now airing on W Network, Virtue and Moir are bonded, not just by a work ethic that sees them on the ice five hours a day mid-season, but a passion for ice dance rooted in the same appreciation for storytelling executed through precise skill.
“It’s kind of that marriage between art and athleticism that I really love and I think that’s what makes the sport special,” Moir says. “With the great champions who have come before us and the champions who are going to come after us, people see that and fall in love with ice dance as much as we have.”
Where Moir is very linear, with a greater understanding of points and certain technical requirements, Virtue is drawn more to exploring the creative side of their programs. With the acrobatics involved in the increasingly technically demanding lifts, Virtue and Moir have sought the guidance of Cirque du Soleil acrobats and lift coaches. As for the primary coach leading them to Sochi, Zoueva, and the dynamic between her and her two competing ice dance pairs – while not uncommon in skating, remains a point of great fascination for audiences. For the majority of their relationship, the close proximity to their rivals created healthy competition. Eventually, their efforts to separate themselves from Davis and White, left the pair feeling very alone in the last season leading into the Olympics, Virtue says.
“It’s impossible to ignore the feelings of doubt, especially when our coach travelled to the US Nationals and not the Canadian Nationals, or she marched with the American team and not the Canadian as she usually does. There were certainly red flags and when you’re in it, it’s hard to step back and get perspective, but looking back there were some moments that we questioned.”
They don’t allow regrets to taint their memories of the event. Instead, they’re twizzling about in the creative opportunities to arise once competition ends and Stars on Ice dates are booked. When Virtue and Moir grace the Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre ice May 13 (along with Browning and Olympic silver medallist Patrick Chan among others), they’ll bring with them a rare piece of choreography they crafted together. The first steps to Van Morrison’s Into the Mystic, their feel-good song, used to close training sessions, came about during an informal dance at Moir’s house.
“We started by dancing around his kitchen, playing the music,” Virtue says. “This is a song that’s very meaningful to us because we listened to it a lot before Sochi. Even the lyrics are appropriate to us at this transition in our lives.”
But whether magnificently they will flow into a mystical future on the ice together in the years to come, and whether Sochi truly was their final Olympic dance, is a question to which neither quite has the answer. Virtue is three-quarters of the way through a psychology degree, which she plans to continue online while on tour. Moir indulges in weighing all the possibilities left for him to explore in the world outside skating.

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