Here is tonight's Strictly Come Dancing Style AT

Caroline Flack & Pasha Argentine Tango to 'La Campursita' - Strictly Come Dancing: 2014 - BBC One

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaaIV8gG670

What did you think of it, Henry?

Good question. I've had a few drinks. Should I write it out now or wait until tomorrow?

I'm actually watching "Dancing Cheek to Cheek: An Intimate History of Dance" which is the best TV programme I have seen this century.

Marvellous.

And to cap it all I have danced with the featured female tango dancer - in this very room. [private lesson]

*delurks*
oooo drunk posting please
*relurks*

Will you please put in a word for me when i get banned?

i have no sway with the mods but i will offer sexual favours if it helps

Sounds good. The wife is away aboard with the mother-in-law.

But it doesn't say whether you are male or female. I am not ambidextrous (or summat)

An can attest to my ladyness...although the sexual favours were intended for the mods.....that singing in my ear has confused me

Bugg*r. the mods. I'm much better than they are. I'll get some coffee. Make sure it isn't decaf ...

Oh the singing in the ear during dancing has stopped. This lot told me off. But they didn't say anything about singing during sex ...

Oh I am off to Bangkok for work in a week's time and on my guard about "ladyness".

Now where's that espresso doppio ...

Go on now, I'm intrigued! Perhaps in vino veritas will creep in...

Hey I've just been watching "Dancing Cheek to Cheek:" on iPlayer. Dr. Lucy Worsley is the hottest thing ever.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...he-dance-floor

[other than the wife of course who is abroad ... ]

OK Espresso Doppio sorted ... doing it now. ...

For what it's worth, this seems to be the place for knowledgeable opinions on salsa and Charleston - what would the verdict be on Jake's Charleston and Frankie's salsa?

Caroline Flack & Pasha Argentine Tango to 'La Campursita' - Strictly Come Dancing: 2014 - BBC One

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaaIV8gG670

OK

0:00 Start. They are apart. He leans back hands on his hips; she leans forward palms facing the ground (not sure what that means)

0:06 He walks in a curve behind her and sweeps his left hand over her face. WTF? She's not bad looking. Why is he behind her?

0:07 Still in the doguey position his right hand curls around her waist and his left hand lifts her left hand up to clean his ears. Must be some wax there. Why doesn't he clean it himself? She walks away but he pulls her back to the doguey position. Some faffin abaht (very artisticially mind you).

0:18 Bleeding 'ell. WTF. They have finally got ino a tango open embrace. I would have got into a close embrace mind you but he looks like he bats for the other side. Anyway this is going to be a good tango. Not normally a tango embrace this soon.

0:20 Sorry folks. False alarm. As you were. He gets out of open embrace and does a solo twirl. Whatever.

0:23 Back in an open embrace. He picks her up and she flashes her crotch to camera. Fine. Looks like a nice crotch.

0:25 He puts her down and slips his left had down to her bum. I must try that and see what happens. But why is his right hand and her left hand above their heads? Whatever!

0:26 A Salsa twirl. It's latin innit.

0:27 Hang on. They are in open embrace. An AT is about to happen. But both postures are all wrong. Hers is better than his though. She leans forward but he is leaning back. He leads with his left knee instead of his torso and she stretches back with her right.

0:28 But we have a tango on our hands.

0:33 Are they in close embrace? Call the censors.

0:34 Nah. Trick of perspective. They are in open embrace.

0:36 OK as you were. That's enough tango. They are out of embrace. Well we have had 9 seconds of tango. Not bad.

0:37 Ah good. He gets into doguey and lifts her left leg up to give us a nice crotch to camera. Should I try that - it is artistic. He lifts her up twirls her around just in case somebody in the audience hasn't seen her crotch.

0:41 Her bum is on his shoulder and there is an even better crotch view pointed at Len with her right leg stretched skywards and her left leg pulled downwards. High art it is. Wurtcher Len. Puts her down but back to doguey. He salsa twirls her. She walks away and they are in outstretched one hand hold and do a Sirtaki skip. Wasn't that for last week?

0:50 Wow a tango hold! Nah. He picks her up and chucks her across feet first.

0:52 Still outstretched arms hold. Not even practice hold. More twirrling. He likes the doguey position doesn't he? More of the same outstretched arm hold.

1:00 OK they are in a tango hold now albeit open embrace. But his left hand is behind his body. I got told off for that in my second class. But it is tango. We ave some Ochos and a tango walk.

1:10 WTF! He breaks hold and goes into a Rumba with his left hand behind her head. Well another 10 seconds of tango so 19 seconds of tango so far. Faffin abaht with a crotch flash to Len. Fair enough.

1:16 They break hold. More Rumba stuff.

1:26 Hey looks like a Close Embrace tango. But his left hand and her right hand are over their heads instead of her shoulder height. OK it is an open tango embrace with random kicks and he takes her to the floor. I'll call that tango. Another 14 seconds being generous.

1:40 The END

That was 33 seconds of Tango out of 100 seconds.

Much more than most SCD tangos. Give it 40 points.

Why didn't he hold her in close embrace throughout the dance? I would have done. She is quite nice. And what's all that doguey position for?

*applause*

you missed out a bit at the beginning when he was in doggy hold where she'd left some food on her boob and Pasha kindly brushed it off for her...a few times....

Thanks.

What I noticed first time round was the complete lack of musicality. They wanted to put in all the lifts but didn't seem to be listening to the music.

At 0:20 i would have drawn up ever so slowly; chest to chest; cheek to cheek in a very close embrace; rocked a bit and then ... with the change in tempo at 0:22 driven purposefully forward maintaining the very close embrace. That's the point of dancing with women innit?

He just went for an SCD style lift which had no bearing to the music. At no stage did they seem to be dancing to the music.

No you wouldn't. You'd have been eliminated weeks ago for failing to tailor your choreography to voters who find lifts far more entertaining than routines danced entirely in hold

Absolutely spot on.

In SCD I would have organised a wardrobe malfunction every week,. And tears. I can cry at a moment's notice. With real tears. And there would have been an off-screen passionate affair with Dr Lucy Worsley who can control Len Goodman. Job done.

Hey up alternative dance peeps. I haven't read the posts yet. Did I miss anything good tonight.

Just to be clear Henry. I don't think she is inviting you to buy yourself a parker and jump on your Lambretta!

He would also be thrown out of the dance hall for failing to observe a bit of Argentine Tango etiquette. It is the lady not the man's prerogative to choose the embrace.:

After that synopsis I am not sure if I am sorry or not to have missed it.

Thank you henry

Weird. I don't judge a tango by the moves they do. Misses the point entirely in my view. But then, you haven't been studying it for very long so I suppose we should be lenient.

Tango is not about sequences. Surley you know that by now?