Abbey and Alijaz - American Smooth
What is your favourite dance of all time?
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#1 = Pixies & Trent's Rumba
(specifically, my own home-made version of it, where I re-dubbed the music with a much better song). I must have watched this 50+ times (!)
and it never fails to move me... 
Also...
Chris & Ola's Charleston
Tom & Camilla's Showdance
Kara & Artem's Salsa
Anita & Gleb's Paso
...are just a few of my other favourites.
(specifically, my own home-made version of it, where I re-dubbed the music with a much better song). I must have watched this 50+ times (!)
and it never fails to move me... Also...
Chris & Ola's Charleston
Tom & Camilla's Showdance
Kara & Artem's Salsa
Anita & Gleb's Paso
...are just a few of my other favourites.
Originally Posted by captain_cherub:
“Penny Lancaster Stewart and Ian's samba (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On8TUDt0LuQ)
1. It's a camp classic in its own right. Everything about it is screamingly camp, because it's a samba choreographed by Ian. Those Proud Marys. Teenage me was copying that opening walk for ages afterwards, because I found it so goddamn fabulous.
2. That episode was the first episode of Strictly I ever watched (it also had Kelly Brook's amazing rule-breaking American Smooth, which is another of my all-time favourites) so it was enough to get me hooked.
3. Not technically brilliant, and maybe not strictly a samba, but that's all kind of irrelevant because she absolutely sells the hell out of it.
4. These Boots Are Made For Walking is one of my favourite songs of all time, and the band do a not bad job on it, which is pretty high praise from me.
5. THOSE BOOTS. And that dress.
6. And then the Great British Public voted that dance into the bottom two FOR CRYING OUT LOUD. Over John Barnes (who was the Jamelia of his day, he pretty much LIVED in the dance-off), Kate Garraway, Kenny Logan, and Dominic Littlewood. This was the first sign to me that said voting public have absolutely no taste.
7. It was the dance that knocked out Gabby Logan, which I have mixed feelings about, because I love Gabby Logan and just how she can never hide her competitive streak (in every other panel show I've seen her on, she's so on edge whenever they're about to announce the winner, it's hilarious) which I find kind of cute/endearing. In my head, she'll come back one day and win Strictly All-Stars because the public have finally learnt to love and accept competitive women.
8. I have a kind of weird emotional connection, because I think every gay man has those moments when they get a bit closer to realising their true sexuality, and the... deep and specific way in which I appreciated this dance got me about 50% of the way there. So thank you, Ian Waite, I never thought a 90-second dance would have a significant impact on me like that.
Bit of a long, over-sharing post, but I don't think I could rattle on as long as that for any other dance on Strictly than that.”
“Penny Lancaster Stewart and Ian's samba (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On8TUDt0LuQ)
1. It's a camp classic in its own right. Everything about it is screamingly camp, because it's a samba choreographed by Ian. Those Proud Marys. Teenage me was copying that opening walk for ages afterwards, because I found it so goddamn fabulous.
2. That episode was the first episode of Strictly I ever watched (it also had Kelly Brook's amazing rule-breaking American Smooth, which is another of my all-time favourites) so it was enough to get me hooked.
3. Not technically brilliant, and maybe not strictly a samba, but that's all kind of irrelevant because she absolutely sells the hell out of it.
4. These Boots Are Made For Walking is one of my favourite songs of all time, and the band do a not bad job on it, which is pretty high praise from me.
5. THOSE BOOTS. And that dress.
6. And then the Great British Public voted that dance into the bottom two FOR CRYING OUT LOUD. Over John Barnes (who was the Jamelia of his day, he pretty much LIVED in the dance-off), Kate Garraway, Kenny Logan, and Dominic Littlewood. This was the first sign to me that said voting public have absolutely no taste.
7. It was the dance that knocked out Gabby Logan, which I have mixed feelings about, because I love Gabby Logan and just how she can never hide her competitive streak (in every other panel show I've seen her on, she's so on edge whenever they're about to announce the winner, it's hilarious) which I find kind of cute/endearing. In my head, she'll come back one day and win Strictly All-Stars because the public have finally learnt to love and accept competitive women.
8. I have a kind of weird emotional connection, because I think every gay man has those moments when they get a bit closer to realising their true sexuality, and the... deep and specific way in which I appreciated this dance got me about 50% of the way there. So thank you, Ian Waite, I never thought a 90-second dance would have a significant impact on me like that.
Bit of a long, over-sharing post, but I don't think I could rattle on as long as that for any other dance on Strictly than that.”
You're fab-u-lous
Yes, I can imagine looking at Penny in THAT Barberella-seque outfit and instinctively thinking, 'ooh, nice boots' could provide one with a clue re: which direction one's personal interests may go.
I had similar epiphanies in the 80s, brought on by a combination of the late night dance in Dirty Dancing (the one Baby carries a watermelon to), the original John Water's Hairspray, The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Shag the Movie
I'm not a gay man, mind you, just a 39-year-old-dancing-weirdo-woman with unusually dramatic dress sense :P
Karen and Mark's argentine tango
Rachel and vincent argentine tango
Rachel and vincent rumba
Tom and camilla showdance
Kara and artem american smooth
Can I also sneam a prodance in there? As flavia and vincent's waltz they did around the time they broke up had me in tears. It was beautiful and heartbreaking.
Rachel and vincent argentine tango
Rachel and vincent rumba
Tom and camilla showdance
Kara and artem american smooth
Can I also sneam a prodance in there? As flavia and vincent's waltz they did around the time they broke up had me in tears. It was beautiful and heartbreaking.
Natalie & Artem's rumba from a couple of seasons ago!! She was so far ahead of the rest of the field that season but for some reason the public never took to her and she was pushed into third place in the final by Abby Clancy & the really not that good Susanna Reid!! I've never seen a better all round dancer on Strictly than Natalie Gumede!!
For dance reasons:
Ian and Zoe's Tango.
Jay and Aliona's Jive (and their Salsa as of yesterday)
Vincent and Louisa's Jive.
Rachel and Vincent's Argentine Tango.
Karen Hardy and Mark Ramprakash's Argentine Tango.
For comedy reasons:
Kristina and John Sargent's Paso Doble.
Anton and Anne Widdicombe's chicken dance.
Ian and Zoe's Tango.
Jay and Aliona's Jive (and their Salsa as of yesterday)
Vincent and Louisa's Jive.
Rachel and Vincent's Argentine Tango.
Karen Hardy and Mark Ramprakash's Argentine Tango.
For comedy reasons:
Kristina and John Sargent's Paso Doble.
Anton and Anne Widdicombe's chicken dance.
The last two dances I watched just for the love of them were Chelsee&Pasha's Samba and Caroline&Pasha's Salsa but if I had to name one stand out routine,I'll here and now pick Kimberley&Pasha's Tango.
Easier to choose several
Jive - Jay & Aliona
Salsa - Ditto
AS - Natalie & Artem
AT - Kara & Artem
Rumba - Ditto
QS - Chelsee & Pasha
Showdance - Tom & Camilla.
Jive - Jay & Aliona
Salsa - Ditto
AS - Natalie & Artem
AT - Kara & Artem
Rumba - Ditto
QS - Chelsee & Pasha
Showdance - Tom & Camilla.
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