Originally Posted by -Sid-:
“I think there's a difference though between someone's face looking vacant/expressionless and someone being "too cool for school." Harry and Louis often fell into the former category (in my opinion). And I think part of the reason for that was they didn't properly FEEL the music or the dance they were performing. Unsurprising since Louis came from the clinical world of gymnastics. They both got better with time though, Harry more so.
In Sophie's case I think she totally feels the music, I can see it in her eyes and the way she moves her body. But she expresses herself in her own cool, somewhat casual style which might be interpreted by some as her considering herself too good for it all. I don't believe she really believes that at all. But I can understand how it might come across that way.
Sophie needs to achieve a balance - try and embrace the character of each dance more whilst still retaining some of her own unique style to make each dance her own. There was too much Sophie and not enough exuberance and flirtiness in her Samba (though I enjoyed it myself).”
“I think there's a difference though between someone's face looking vacant/expressionless and someone being "too cool for school." Harry and Louis often fell into the former category (in my opinion). And I think part of the reason for that was they didn't properly FEEL the music or the dance they were performing. Unsurprising since Louis came from the clinical world of gymnastics. They both got better with time though, Harry more so.
In Sophie's case I think she totally feels the music, I can see it in her eyes and the way she moves her body. But she expresses herself in her own cool, somewhat casual style which might be interpreted by some as her considering herself too good for it all. I don't believe she really believes that at all. But I can understand how it might come across that way.
Sophie needs to achieve a balance - try and embrace the character of each dance more whilst still retaining some of her own unique style to make each dance her own. There was too much Sophie and not enough exuberance and flirtiness in her Samba (though I enjoyed it myself).”
Excellent post, Sid. I do agree with you that Sophie's issue is an inability to fully express her emotions, not a lack of feeling. She seemed a little crest fallen at the judges' comments that her Samba lacked a party vibe and was keen to correct Tess that it was only calm and sophisticated "on the outside".
Originally Posted by coppertop1:
“I am going to have to pick you up on nonchalance again , it means lack of concern and indifference
Neither of which terms apply to Sophie , laid back is fine but Sophie definatley does care and she is not indifferent .
It is now bugging me that 2 words which were originally used incorrectly ie not according to the dictionary definition have been taken up to incorrectly describe Sophie's style of dancing thereby compounding the original error.
And now having bored myself my stint at dictionary corner is over , unless of course someone else makes the same error all over again .”
“I am going to have to pick you up on nonchalance again , it means lack of concern and indifference
Neither of which terms apply to Sophie , laid back is fine but Sophie definatley does care and she is not indifferent .
It is now bugging me that 2 words which were originally used incorrectly ie not according to the dictionary definition have been taken up to incorrectly describe Sophie's style of dancing thereby compounding the original error.
And now having bored myself my stint at dictionary corner is over , unless of course someone else makes the same error all over again .”
I'm not sure I would describe Sophie as "laid back". She doesn't come across as a very easy going sort of person in her VTs and training videos. She strikes me as the sort of person who's always analysing things, always thinking... maybe over thinking. Which again isn't the kind of personality trait that's very conducive to living in the moment, letting go and just enjoying a performance.
) layer. Either way, learning how to make that personality work in all the dances is really the interesting thing in watching Sophie and Brendan.
or :yawn: (like catching flies with his mouth).”
