Thoughts on the showdances
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What did people think of the showdances?
I thought Frankie & Kevin's was gorgeous until they started messing around on the benches, I don't understand why Kevin thought that was a good idea.
Mark and Karen's seemed to be mostly a repeat of his jive (with a few lifts and running up and down the stairs thrown in). Would like to have seen some more original choreography.
Caroline's was the best, but I'm not sure how I feel about a showdance in a ballroom & latin competition with no ballroom or latin in it.
Kristina threw the kitchen sink into that routine with Simon, but to me it looked a bit messy in places.
I thought Frankie & Kevin's was gorgeous until they started messing around on the benches, I don't understand why Kevin thought that was a good idea.
Mark and Karen's seemed to be mostly a repeat of his jive (with a few lifts and running up and down the stairs thrown in). Would like to have seen some more original choreography.
Caroline's was the best, but I'm not sure how I feel about a showdance in a ballroom & latin competition with no ballroom or latin in it.
Kristina threw the kitchen sink into that routine with Simon, but to me it looked a bit messy in places.
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Frankie was forgettable
Simon was ok bit messy
Caroline was sublime
simon and marks both felt like show laps in the style of lewis hamilton...
Mark & Karen - too much prancing around the stairs & didn't add anything new to what I have seen from Mark before:(
Caroline & Pasha - I actually cried. It was stunning. I don't need to say anymore.:)
Simon & Kristina - Totally opposite in style to Caroline & Pasha's yet equally outstanding.:)
I do like a bit of contemporary but, although she did a very good job, Caroline isn't the most elegant dancer.
Simon & Kristina didn't make much impact on me one way or the other.
Mark & Karen's was a bit cringe in parts.
Frankies was good but the benches ruined it
Marks was fun but they shouldn't have ran up the stairs
Simon it was just a bit too much
Caroline's was gorgeous.
Frankie's was gorgeous, but would have liked it without those benches.
Simon's was great and had so much in it.
Caroline or Simon to win
Marks was completely bonkers
Caroline's I didn't like personally but I can see why other people did
Simon's was great
My winner has been Caroline since the start, but Frankies show dance was so good tonight. I'm still yet to see Simons though.
Loved Frankies , so elegant and fab
Marks walkec about a bit
Simons was good but a bit gimmicky really
Mark's was awful - he could have cartwheeled, leap frogged and run up and down stairs in week 1 for goodness sake.
Caroline's was very accomplished but did not showcase anything that she had learnt - with her background in dance she could've pretty much done that dance in week 1.
Only Simon's dance showed a selection of dances that he had learnt. It wasn't fabulous but, for me, it had the spirit of a Strictly showdance.
Siimon's: It is all about Kristina
Not keen on Frankies
Mark was a little bit to hetic
Mark & Karen - frenetic but crowd pleasing
Caroline & Pasha - sublime
Simon & Kristina - a real showcase for Simon - well done Kristina
I thought Caroline's showdance was a prime example of the dance category known as Contemporary Dance Bollox. I found it all rather cringey. Caroline's good at selling the party dances but lacks the poise, grace and finesse which would have been required to make this dance anywhere near being a good showdance IMO.
Simon & Kristina are my favourites but I have to admit to being a bit disappointed by theirs as well. I was expecting so much more. It was all a bit too frenetic and I think they would have been better going down a similar route to Frankie & Kevin.
Mark's had tons of energy and was fairly watchable, but again was lacking in finesse.
I'd probably rank them:
Frankie & Kevin
Simon & Kristina
Mark & Karen
Caroline & Pasha
Mark - clever of Karen to base it on the Jive and Charleston as they were Mark's best dances, and those bits were well done. Confused by the running up and down the stairs though - did something maybe go wrong in rehearsals and Karen had to change it at the last minute?
Caroline - breathtaking, though very little ballroom or Latin in it.
Simon - sadly forgettable - Kristina's choreographed better, but I was happy to see some Quickstep as well as the Latin dances.
nothing in a normal week but not in a showdance .. well for me anyway
1. Frankie: BIB They spoiled the Hollywood feel of the dance and were totally out of place..lovely dress
2. Mark: Craig was spot on a class in aerobics
3. Caroline: Elegant, Pasha's best showdance, emotional and teary. Dance of the night so far
4. Simon: Messy and forgettable.