Originally Posted by jtnorth:
“Do you mind a quick drive-by unappreciation?
I would like to unappreciate the rumba. I would like to unappreciate every single thing about the rumba as a dance. I have just been watching various competition dancers dancing it presumably properly and I feel a bit ill. It might be the only dance that I like less when it's done properly.
Hate the over the top hip movement, hate the way the man has to hold himself like a magician's charming assistant, hate the silly arms, hate the opening the curtains move again and again, hate the almost lifts with one foot on the floor - what's the point? - and the move where the man drags the woman's straight body backwards for no reason, and the woman sliding down the man like a helter-skelter, and the undulating and the whole smug fake exaggeration of it. Ughhhh.
Thank you for that. Apologies to anyone who actually knows about dancing. Wanders off muttering 'But he could have had the Charleston this week...'”
You speak my mind

I cannot stand it and even the version done by the Pros has me cringing and generally wanting to chuck stuff at the telly. It's over exaggerated when it should be a beautiful dance of love and poetry in motion.
Having said all of the above, if given a contemporary twist (while maintaining enough basic to keep Len happy) the rumba can get more of a feel of an unconventional pas de deux and blow me away. But I've never seen that done on SCD.
Originally Posted by perdiedumpling:
“I would unappreciate pulling a muscle in my back that was torn earlier this year, but instead I need to unappreciate standing up in the wrong place in the attic and giving that tender spot a huge thump, as if it wasn't bad enough already. Hmmmph.”
Awww hon, get some Deep Heat sprayed on it toot suite!