Random thoughts:
- Music selection seems to have improved this season. For dramatic dances like Tango and Paso Doble, good music is extremely important because it can effectively mask the weakness of the dancer and make their dancing *look* more dramatic than they actually are.
- Drew Lachey should be next season’s host, if the decision were made based on merit. However that won’t happen because apparently they are intending for him to just be a fill-in (as they say it every single time in the beginning!). Reason is obvious, it’s the law that one cannot lose her job following a maternity leave and ABC, with the show blossoming to a national phenomena, won’t be so stupid to let anything (not to mention some controversy that could potentially bring a law suit) to distract from the success. At least that’s what I believe it is, or else I cannot explain why they keep saying he’s “filling in” over and over again.
- Jennie needs to work on her upper body. For some reason she doesn’t hold her posture very well, in both her Quickstep and Tango.
- Jane had the best Tango of the night but again she also got the best Tango music of the night.
- It’s obvious Mark Cuban’s hip is preventing him from doing the more difficult steps. I still don’t understand why he decided to do the show so soon after a hip replacement surgery.
- Even so, Wayne Newton should be the one going home next week, not him (which I think could very well happen).
- I didn’t like Sabrina’s Jive as much as the judges seemed to. Jive however doesn’t require much hip action as other Latin dances, which is a good thing for her because hip action to me is not one of her strengths.
- Someone please give Tom Bergeron some award for hosting this show. He’s just phenominal. He and the three judges. It has to be extremely hard to find a dynamic combo of four people that work well together to make a show like this pure fun. ABC is very lucky to have found it.
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It is very sad to see how much the contestants performances loose when they don’t choose the right song. A Tango has to be a tango, not a Paso Doble or something else. Mambo isn’t Disco. There are beautiful songs in those styles that were compose and written to be one of those, why do you force a disco or a pop song to become something they aren’t?
When you dance you have to feel the music you are dancing. Then it is first priority to choose the right song to give that performance the feeling and drama of that style. That’s what happened with Mary Osmon, she did danced a Mambo, which gave her a good score. It was glamorous, elegant and sexy. Other couples, who have better technique, didn’t give that feeling to the audience because they chose a song that wasn’t in the right style.
Dancing it is not only technique. Dancing is feeling, passion and performance. Dancers have to feel the music and transmit that feeling and passion to the public.
Please play real tangos, mambos, rumba, etc. that way you will contribute to teach Americans more about other kind of music, cultures, etc. Don’t use songs in rhythms that are very far from their essence.
Carmen, I couldn’t have said it better. And I absolutely think ABC should leave the task of choosing the music to the hands of the pros, not some guy working in the music dept (or whatever that is).