Originally Posted by ianswaiting:
“She isn't, she was just better. Chris & Ola's had a lot of gimmicks and was, therefore, very crowd pleasing but it lacked a lot of actual charleston dancing and Chris wasn't so much dancing it but walking through it. This was obvious because he was doing the same moves as Ola and as others have said I found myself watching her more than him. That's not to say I didn't like it but it wasn't the best of the night.
Ali's was perhaps less crowd pleasing but it had lots more dance content and danced with a high degree of technical precision. It was, therefore, inevitable it would score higher with the judges.”
You got it!! Some people think its quantity, but it's quality that counts. Doing the period dance must contain the character of the dance especially when it comes to the footwork. Bouncing on your bum has nothing to do
with Charleston. Nice trick, but can also have been used in
the Rock & Roll. Therefore a cute tricky little thing, but nothing to do with Charleston.
Brian hit the nail on the head with his Charleston basic. Anton came next closest to he real thing. Of all the stars doing the dance Chris was furthest from the Charleston step. Tap step, tap step. Please!! If you don't do the basic step then everything else is irrelevent. Even Ola only did the real Charleston half baked.