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What if all dancers danced the same dance?
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My poor husband isn't particularly keen on Strictly, but I have been a massive fan right from the beginning and the poor guy has sat beside me every Saturday night and watched Strictly with me for all these years and listened to me chunner on about the wrong person going home year after year.
So last night he said to me (again) that all the dancers should dance the same dance so that you can compare them fairly, certainly when it gets to the semi final stage. I said to him that it would be boring for us watching 5 rumbas and 5 vienesse waltzes in one night, but I do see what he means, it is so difficult comparing a fun salsa to some Ricky Martin music and a slow rumba to Eva Cassidy.
I know it would never work to have everyone doing the same dances but so much of what a dancer is going to score each week, both with the judges and the public depends on the music, the costume and the type of dance.
So last night he said to me (again) that all the dancers should dance the same dance so that you can compare them fairly, certainly when it gets to the semi final stage. I said to him that it would be boring for us watching 5 rumbas and 5 vienesse waltzes in one night, but I do see what he means, it is so difficult comparing a fun salsa to some Ricky Martin music and a slow rumba to Eva Cassidy.
I know it would never work to have everyone doing the same dances but so much of what a dancer is going to score each week, both with the judges and the public depends on the music, the costume and the type of dance.
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Then in subsequent weeks they introduced more dances, but there were usually a few duplicate dances so that you could compare like with like.
I think the "mix it up" idea was to make it more interesting, but I preferred it when everyopne didn't do a different dance
I suspect that it would also loose viewers and end up on late at night (remember 'Come Dancing').
That would be a great idea JR, it would actually be a lot of fun to compare a Trent waltz with an Anton one.
Why anyone thought it was a good idea to move that to random weeks earlier in the series and allow some of the semi-finalists to escape it, I'll never know.
And a bit more sticking to actual rules (no showdances in week 1 type of thing).
plus there was a static camera view that you could watch on line if you wanted an alternative to the creative camerawork.
things were better in the olden days.
With so many celebs starting out, I'd prefer either alternating of two dances or even sequences of three dances to keep everyone's interest.
The current total mix can be so confusing, and as the rules on all the dances seemed to have been relaxed - example the Viennese waltz with very little i hold - some steps being repeated in another dance or omitted altogether, and with the dreadful music, sometimes it's difficult to know just which dance they are doing.
Yes, I have always thought that.
I have though that maybe the more crowd pleasing dances could be kept till the end for everyone. As it stands, a perfectly good dancer can be landed with a dull routine later in the series, while an inferior dancer can have a routine that is more eye-catching and vote winning.
But dividing things up like that would again make the earlier rounds a lot more dull, so I can't really see any alternative to what we have.
Craig last night voted highly for Mark's rumba as he likes contemporary, for me it was dire and there was no real rumba in it. He also loves the Salsa, nothing wrong with that, but was Caroline's perfect score because it was one of his favourite forms of dance?
You'll have to forgive my naivety as I'm only just learning what is what but this season, I've picked up on this a few times. I'm probably wrong but that's how I see it anyway. Maybe this could be an argument for everyone doing the same dance BUT I don't think it will work as viewers like spice and variety and it could zap the atmosphere that SCD has.
In most dances, male dancers have to lead (and really show they can lead), whilst female dancers are usually expected to follow, but to do moves which the males do not.
But as someone else said, by the time we had watched 15 waltzes, tangos, or whatever, we may well have forgotten who did what. And then we would just vote for our favourite anyway
Obviously the people who do it first have a disadvantage as the later people can watch them and learn the routine a bit more, but they could mix up the order a bit each week? The men would obviously have to have a different routine to the women.