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Strictly Final Lacking in Ballroom
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Ballroom dancing is my favourite on Strictly. I love a good old Fred and Ginger foxtrot, a zany quickstep or a romantic waltz. It used to be the case in the final that the couples would perform highest scoring latin, highest scoring ballroom and a showdance (and in some years whichever latin/ballroom the celeb had yet to learn too). I feel this final has missed out on classic ballroom routines. It sometimes feels like the producers think they are still competing with The X Factor and are scared of ballroom seeming old-fashioned to the youth audience. The battle with The X Factor has long been won and young people aren't so predictable in their tastes.
Has anyone else missed ballroom from the final?
Has anyone else missed ballroom from the final?
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You beat me to it. ;-)
Overall there will be 11 dances in the final. Out of all that only Frankie's showdance, a fraction of Simon's showdance and, as of this moment, potentially Simon's Argentine Tango are ballroom. It used to be the case that ballroom made up half or almost half of the final. So we will have a final with 1 and a bit or, at most, 2 and a bit ballroom dances. That isn't classic Strictly to me.
I have. I like the old fashioned proper dances to proper music.
Shame.
i do have to agree that the benches bit was all wrong, and i'm suprised both that frankie suggested it and the kevin let it happen. it was stilted and nervy, and totally at odds with the rest of the dance which was fabulous.
And Argentine Tango is non-standard. Of 11 dances, NONE will be a standard ballroom dance.
I thought they were going to channel Fred and and Ginger jumping on and off the benches and dancing on them. Not Kevin lifting Frankie from one to another whilst she struck a pose.
And as for the show dance!..... not many years back they used to have a real WOW about them!, but now I don't get excited about any of them because we are seeing the same sort of thing choreographed each week and so there is nothing different or special about any of them i'm sorry to say!................:(
I don't like the concept of the 'judges choice' especially when they seemed to choose the worst dance for all of them (except Simon). It doesn't make for a great final which should be about showcasing the finalists at their best.
Just let each of the finalists choose a ballroom and a latin dance of their choice. That way if they choose the wrong dance for them, it is a choice of their own making.
Completely agree. Ballroom is being swamped, it's a damned shame as it's my favourite thing.:(
Not just so far - none of the couples' pick for favourite dance are traditional ballroom.
I think it's disgraceful how unbalanced the final is - we could have a final 3 (if Frankie goes out) where between them they haven't danced a single ballroom dance all night. That's not ok.
The judges' choices were a complete joke - it makes no sense whatsoever to not pick the dance Caroline basically fell over in! Yes, she's not as good at ballroom, but everyone else got their weaker discipline! Thankfully her cha cha wasn't much good so it didn't make a huge amount of difference, but the genre choices were advantage Caroline.
It also just didn't make sense at all to have two consecutive cha cha chas - it's not the most exciting dance in the world and it made the whole show feel very samey and tired. The judges' pick ruined a bit of Simon & Kristina's showdance as well as we ended up with Charleston overload. It's made for a very flat show overall - the only highlights have been a ballroom number and a contemporary one!
And we get another pile of Latin dances in the second show no matter who goes through...doesn't exactly make for a good variety show or any real sparkle!
Thought it was a weird choice for Caroline, she wasn't bad at the dance, infact I thought it was one of the top marks in week1, it was only her lowest scoring dance as it was the start of the competition not because it was so awful. I would have chosen a ballroom for her since she had a couple of dances that went less well.