I have four tickets for the Brighton leg of this tour on Saturday 1st May which I bought for my family but we can't make it now due to a sudden commitment on that same weekend.

They are in the front stalls, row N. they cost £45 face value but happy to offer them at £40 each, in pairs or all 4.

Gutted cos I really wanted to see Vincent & Flavia since they didn't do the main SCD tour!

Private message me if you're interested -- THANKS!

one single ticket left now:

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Word is, work onthe tour is taking its toll on the pros. injuries are many, and resentment is high. Eight hour days makes the grind unbearable for some. Hope they are not burned out before it even starts.

But they must be used to eight hour days surely. Those who were on the Pro/Celeb Tour would have been doing that, plus training their Celeb for Strictly last year, plus teaching and performances.

I don't see it, myself. They are "professional" dancers after all so why should there be resentment for doing what they do every day anyway.

And your source is???????

JJ

Source please.

The pros are used to much longer than 8 hour days - weren't Ricky and Natalie training until 2am finals week? 8 hour days are nothing for a lot of people, including the pro dancers - think about how long a day they do for a Saturday show - could be up to about 15 hours, so 8 is nothing.

And Chris and Ola trained much later than normal as well.
And all the pros get injuries - James talked about that on ITT, that they all live with injuries (and indeed Kristina had to have an operation, didn't she? And Ola's broken James' nose while they've been dancing before ) but they know how to cope with them because they're unavoidable in the job they do.

At the end of the day, they wouldn't have signed up to do the tour if they didn't want to commit to it - they all know what it's like to do a tour, and they put in equally long if not longer hours to do both celeb and pro dances on the celeb tour (and V&F know what that's like from previous years!). Judging by their Twitter posts they're all enjoying it - and if they're not they probably just wouldn't post anything. I don't believe that 'word' for a second - the professionals are just that: professional, so they know what they're doing, and after all, they dance because they love it....

Assuming you speak the truth many many people do 8 hour days ( or more) working day after day for years on end ( not just weeks) often doing something they don't partically jump for joy about,pros are trained to dance,they love what they do,are working with people they get on with and they all signed up for the tour so why should resentment be high ??? unless they are basically slave labour ??

Obviously hope everyone is getting treatment for any injuries and they are having some say in what they do and when (can't imagine any of them not having a say esp as a group) and as others have said the pros will be used to doing much longer than 8 hr days during SCD,Matt and Alesha often did 10-12 hour days during 2007........the pros are in rehearsals at the moment so surely that means longer days than during the actual tour when the routines are already worked out and will become second nature.

source please

They are professional dancers, used to hard work and long hours!

Flavia just updated her blog with some news on the pro rehearsals - sounds like she's tired but certainly not resentful and thankfully not injured! She also puts a couple of interesting spoilers about what the group dances are, so if you don't want to know, then don't read below the picture of her and Vincent!



http://realbuzz.com/blogs/u/Flavia_C...cacace-s-blog/

After reading Flavias blog...I'm even more excited about this tour than I was before!!!

Interesting blog Mystical,thanks for posting

No doubt the pros are working really hard but what else would you expect of them ?? esp when they have to get a tour together within two weeks.

Tour routine thoughts

OK



Sounds about right to me.

Yep, sounds possible to me, and would be good if it was true. My guess is slightly different, posted it on Flavia's thread earlier

Presumably there's more than five dances in the programme though, so they'll be learning another five dances this week. And I simply can't imagine them NOT doing an Argentine Tango since they have the world's best on the tour.

Which means they could all be choreographing a latin and a ballroom?

There are solos too (Ola confirmed it in an interview last week), so I guess it depends which dances they all wanted to do solo There's sure to be some overlap, probably with the Latin dances (maybe solo and group Cha Cha/Rumba/etc) but I'm sure they'll try to cover all the dances while allowing the pros to do the ones they do best in their solos

Maybe there are 5 group routines/5 solo couple routines and a finale dance ?? =7 dances each couple ??

There are 2 solos per couple as far as I know, and presumably given the show will last for a couple of hours and dances are only about 2-3 minutes long each (group ones could be slightly longer), and that will mean more than 5 group dances - Flavia has mentioned to some people that she was trying about 10 outfits!

It was mentioned in last weeks blog that she had gone for dress fittings and had about 9 to try on......unless some of them were just for choosing between rather than definites.

Quote:
“Early the next day I went for a costume fitting for the professional tour. I tried on about 9 different outfits, which was all very exciting”

Apparently there is two solo dances each, plus some 'two couple dances' which they might have been working on that week just finished. Flavs blog seems to covers week 1 of training up until last Sunday...where the 6 group dances where done so last week may have been recapping those 6 dances plus working on some 'couple dances'.

Anyway not too long until we find out...although I've still another 2 months to wait.

Yeah I was never quite sure if that was for deciding between outfits or if it was final fittings and she really does have at least 9 costume changes!


And the two-couple dances was mentioned by Ola, wasn't it? I wonder what combinations they'll be - and will we get any specialist dances in the two-couple ones? I'm thinking Charleston (James and Ola and Matt and Aliona maybe? Or they could do a hip hop Samba, that would be good! ), Lindy Hop, maybe an AT with Vincent and Flavia and Ian and Natalie (I can hope!).....?

Cross-posted!

I have two front row tickets for the Strictly Professionals tour in Brighton on Friday 30 April that I can't use - really don't want them going to waste! Make me an offer by PM if you're interested or know someone who might be, it would be a crying shame for these seats to be empty on their opening night!