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shallowness10 couples dance
I was fetching myself food at the very beginning so all I got was a vague impression that Shirley chose to wear her second choice for Halloween on this show and a positive impression of the dancers’ costumes.
We opened with a pretty good, high-energy jive from Lauren, with clever use of the set skate ramp. I was seriously impressed by the armography for and by her; I’d been expecting good kicks from ITT footage, and, obviously, fitness. I straight up want to see her do a salsa and for them to discuss the challenges and how they’ve faced them. Thoroughly deserved to get into the 30s.
Graeme tried to wrest the granny with a connection to Blackpool storyline from Joe. And then he did a much smoother waltz than I expected. I’d hoped the judges would explain the technical issues better, but they didn’t, really. Still, an improvement for him after a ropy week.
The same challenge lay ahead for the next two couples. I applauded at the end of Kate’s Argentine Tango, thinking she’d done as well as she could under the circumstances. It was helpful for her that she was the first to do the dance because you know that Ashley and Faye will be miles better. Overall, it was placed, and she only started acting it late in the routine, but Aljiaz put in crowd-pleasing moments, and you had to admire her trust and commitment, given that she was dancing through an injury. So, she didn’t improve, but will the injury and the Craig harshness plus their likeability get her enough votes? (Unworthy thought, but who else wanted to see Katie Derham do that routine?)
I was reminded that Ranj is better at (proper) Latin, and they got some proper samba feel, although there was a bit of showing off the female pro business going on. I presume they’d rehearsed with the light show.
Anyway, a change of standard as Stacey did her street commercial, and did it well. She is joyous. I loved the routine, too. The 1930s twist allowed her to play it elegant which meant that the fact she, as someone who hasn’t spent their life dancing, wasn’t doing quite as much with all her body as Kevin didn’t matter. And they were in sync. I loved the way the routine played with all the contrasts of the song, and the lifts toward the end were brill. And doing that having lost time due to injury is impressive.
I was with Shirley about expecting Danny’s quickstep to go well, the opening promised style and that the routine would be right up his street, and then it was so obvious they were out of sync, and although the quickstep is one where it’s easier to wow, it doesn’t offer many chances of recovery if you go wrong early. (Looking back, everyone else either improved from last week or stayed at about the same. Danny was the one who noticeably fell back.) He still got an array of scores, just starting from an earlier point.
I’m fairly certain Claudia has cracked Tess up more than Bruce ever did.
Based on that foxtrot, Ashley needs to stop dreading the ballroom. Obviously, she nailed all the accents, but it was the quality of the whole of the routine that impressed, even if I don’t understand the technical aspects. But I do get that gaining the same score for your foxtrot as your Charleston is very impressive indeed.
This would be the point that hysteria broke out in the Clauditorium. Certainly Claudia going all Bond villain on Pasha was hilarious.
I was initially worrying when Faye and Giovanni would be starting the tango with a bit of a paso doble and Argentinian tango in the opening, but then we got some good, dramatic, fierce, quality tango. I loved it, especially the moment where they came back together in hold in the cube. As for the cube, did Craig just dock a point for the choreography/concept, rather than the execution? Shirley couldn’t give her a 10 after her comments, giving Ashley the lead. Ooh, and an added layer was Debbie McGee being in the audience.
After all the fuss about it, the pub set had less to do with the next dance than the props in oh, Lauren, Graeame, Stacey, Ashley and, arguably, Faye’s routines. But I thought Charles’s Viennese waltz was nice, even if it certainly had too much rise and fall. I’m glad they busted beyond 25.
Joe was a bit in and out of his paso, for me. There were powerful lines and shapes, and there were bits where I could see him remembering what he needed to be doing. Lots of it was good, and there’s no doubt he is a dancer in the making, but I wouldn’t have given him 9s. However, the show and judges have anointed him top bloke based on consistent improvement (even if he hasn’t reached the heights of Danny and Charles’s very best).
I saw no reason to vote as I mostly agreed with where the judges had placed them.
I was fetching myself food at the very beginning so all I got was a vague impression that Shirley chose to wear her second choice for Halloween on this show and a positive impression of the dancers’ costumes.
We opened with a pretty good, high-energy jive from Lauren, with clever use of the set skate ramp. I was seriously impressed by the armography for and by her; I’d been expecting good kicks from ITT footage, and, obviously, fitness. I straight up want to see her do a salsa and for them to discuss the challenges and how they’ve faced them. Thoroughly deserved to get into the 30s.
Graeme tried to wrest the granny with a connection to Blackpool storyline from Joe. And then he did a much smoother waltz than I expected. I’d hoped the judges would explain the technical issues better, but they didn’t, really. Still, an improvement for him after a ropy week.
The same challenge lay ahead for the next two couples. I applauded at the end of Kate’s Argentine Tango, thinking she’d done as well as she could under the circumstances. It was helpful for her that she was the first to do the dance because you know that Ashley and Faye will be miles better. Overall, it was placed, and she only started acting it late in the routine, but Aljiaz put in crowd-pleasing moments, and you had to admire her trust and commitment, given that she was dancing through an injury. So, she didn’t improve, but will the injury and the Craig harshness plus their likeability get her enough votes? (Unworthy thought, but who else wanted to see Katie Derham do that routine?)
I was reminded that Ranj is better at (proper) Latin, and they got some proper samba feel, although there was a bit of showing off the female pro business going on. I presume they’d rehearsed with the light show.
Anyway, a change of standard as Stacey did her street commercial, and did it well. She is joyous. I loved the routine, too. The 1930s twist allowed her to play it elegant which meant that the fact she, as someone who hasn’t spent their life dancing, wasn’t doing quite as much with all her body as Kevin didn’t matter. And they were in sync. I loved the way the routine played with all the contrasts of the song, and the lifts toward the end were brill. And doing that having lost time due to injury is impressive.
I was with Shirley about expecting Danny’s quickstep to go well, the opening promised style and that the routine would be right up his street, and then it was so obvious they were out of sync, and although the quickstep is one where it’s easier to wow, it doesn’t offer many chances of recovery if you go wrong early. (Looking back, everyone else either improved from last week or stayed at about the same. Danny was the one who noticeably fell back.) He still got an array of scores, just starting from an earlier point.
I’m fairly certain Claudia has cracked Tess up more than Bruce ever did.
Based on that foxtrot, Ashley needs to stop dreading the ballroom. Obviously, she nailed all the accents, but it was the quality of the whole of the routine that impressed, even if I don’t understand the technical aspects. But I do get that gaining the same score for your foxtrot as your Charleston is very impressive indeed.
This would be the point that hysteria broke out in the Clauditorium. Certainly Claudia going all Bond villain on Pasha was hilarious.
I was initially worrying when Faye and Giovanni would be starting the tango with a bit of a paso doble and Argentinian tango in the opening, but then we got some good, dramatic, fierce, quality tango. I loved it, especially the moment where they came back together in hold in the cube. As for the cube, did Craig just dock a point for the choreography/concept, rather than the execution? Shirley couldn’t give her a 10 after her comments, giving Ashley the lead. Ooh, and an added layer was Debbie McGee being in the audience.
After all the fuss about it, the pub set had less to do with the next dance than the props in oh, Lauren, Graeame, Stacey, Ashley and, arguably, Faye’s routines. But I thought Charles’s Viennese waltz was nice, even if it certainly had too much rise and fall. I’m glad they busted beyond 25.
Joe was a bit in and out of his paso, for me. There were powerful lines and shapes, and there were bits where I could see him remembering what he needed to be doing. Lots of it was good, and there’s no doubt he is a dancer in the making, but I wouldn’t have given him 9s. However, the show and judges have anointed him top bloke based on consistent improvement (even if he hasn’t reached the heights of Danny and Charles’s very best).
I saw no reason to vote as I mostly agreed with where the judges had placed them.
