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Serenity.

13-11-2013

Originally Posted by Midnight Moggy:
“Oh please not contemporary! Anything would be preferable to that.

I find it the most boring, tedious, cringeworthy type of dance imaginable.

The routines all look the same (lots of dramatic leaps and the man catching the woman), they always wear the same boring costumes (plain coloured open shirt for the male with black trousers, simple short floaty dress in a matching colour for the female, and of course they MUST be barefoot), and it's supposed to be all melancholic and sincere and moving, but the hilariously anguished expressions just make it laughable.

And the theme is always something diabolical like "show the journey of a relationship". It looks like some kind of hideous exercise dreamt up by a counsellor "to get you in touch with your feelings again."

I'm no expert on dance of course, but whenever I see contemporary on other shows I just CRINGE CRINGE CRINGE!”

Ha ha, totally agree about the cringeworthy contemporary dances!
I remember an episode of DWTS a few years ago where the remaining contestants had to do one of four dances - my memory isn't great on this but I think three of the four were lindy hop, mambo and lambada. Some of the pros were finding it a challenge because they didn't know the types of dances very well.

daisydee

14-11-2013

Originally Posted by Sho Nuff:
“I'm happy with all the dances, I just wish they would concentrate on getting basic steps and shaping looking great than doing a dance that doesn't even look like what they are suppose to be dancing! There's too much emphasis on lifts and flamboyant posing.”

And I thought it was just me! I used to go ballroom dancing on a regular basis years ago, so should be able to recognise the dances, but often, just can't. What with the faffing about and weird music choices - it ain't dancing like it oughta be!

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