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Old 02-12-2015, 19:40
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Drums fingers waiting for Sofakat to catch up.

If that AT still looks like that on Saturday, this could be the epic mess of awful that PP let us down so badly with.

Sofakat is going to burst a blood vessel and that's just from 15 seconds of training video.
It will be better that's for sure. They look like marking the dance anyway.
Whether it will be an AT or not, that will be answered on Saturday.
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Old 02-12-2015, 19:50
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Ian Waite's look at Anita & Gleb's AT, it's hilarious, terrible and weirdly fascinating all at same time. Don't think you'll be impressed. 😂😂😂
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Love all the dissing of the double bounce - was that a question from SCDTristan?
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Old 02-12-2015, 19:51
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I think you might be again on Saturday unless someone holds you back. It won't be me though. I will be holding your instruments.
I'll be holding her coat
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Old 02-12-2015, 19:52
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And why was Kellie wearing a skirt with fairylights in it?
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Old 02-12-2015, 19:54
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And why was Kellie wearing a skirt with fairylights in it?
That was

But she looked like she is loving it!
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Old 02-12-2015, 19:59
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Stork struck by lightening makes a reappearance

Love all the dissing of the double bounce - was that a question from SCDTristan?
In a way I'm sort of hoping, if Jay gets through this week, he has the samba just so Aliona can also dismiss the double bounce with an epic eye roll 🙄😂
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Old 02-12-2015, 20:05
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That was

But she looked like she is loving it!
I think any hope of subtlety has gone out the window!
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Old 02-12-2015, 20:06
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Is that weird low to the floor one leg stretched out twirl powered by a geriatric mixer, the new must do move for AT? 😨


Didn't Kellie do it in her salsa but he just pushed her straight across the floor like someone power mowing their lawn?
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Old 02-12-2015, 20:06
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In a way I'm sort of hoping, if Jay gets through this week, he has the samba just so Aliona can also dismiss the double bounce with an epic eye roll 🙄😂

That would be awesome!
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Old 02-12-2015, 20:07
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I think in a weird way that many of the characteristics of certain dances have been exaggerated on SCD over the years. Paso and tango have to be snarling, face-pulling aggressive things. AT must be at least half ganchos. Rumba is writhing and looking constipated. Jive - kick and flick and kick and flick.

It's weird, because a lot of the others have become quite watered down. Cha cha, salsa and samba do genuinely run into each other, as seen by Kellie's generic Latin with lifts. Foxtrot and waltz frequently are indistinguishable. Very odd.
Somebody (mimi? Mindyann?) did a brilliant digest of dances as performed on Strictly - does anybody still have it?

I think you might be again on Saturday unless someone holds you back. It won't be me though. I will be holding your instruments.
I'll be outside with the engine running in the getaway car!
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Old 02-12-2015, 20:07
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Didn't Kellie do it in her salsa but he just pushed her straight across the floor like someone power mowing their lawn?
That was one of the ugliest moves I've seen
Seemed more of a time filler than an actual move.
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Old 02-12-2015, 20:08
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It will be better that's for sure. They look like marking the dance anyway.
Whether it will be an AT or not, that will be answered on Saturday.


Not sure it will because that choreography just didn't look right. It wasn't even that it was danced badly, it was the choreography that was horrible to my eyes. The AT is meant to be intimate and compact, that was anything but
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Old 02-12-2015, 20:11
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Not sure it will because that choreography just didn't look right. It wasn't even that it was danced badly, it was the choreography that was horrible to my eyes. The AT is meant to be intimate and compact, that was anything but
We only saw a little part of the dance, I'm hoping the rest of it is better
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Old 02-12-2015, 20:37
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Didn't Kellie do it in her salsa but he just pushed her straight across the floor like someone power mowing their lawn?
In our house we christened that the Dyson
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Old 02-12-2015, 20:37
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Not sure it will because that choreography just didn't look right. It wasn't even that it was danced badly, it was the choreography that was horrible to my eyes. The AT is meant to be intimate and compact, that was anything but
I thought when I heard the music they'd got, that they were doing the ballroom tango, forgetting they already did one.
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Old 02-12-2015, 20:38
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In our house we christened that the Dyson


Bet whoever cleans that floor didn't appreciate the gouges
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Old 02-12-2015, 20:40
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I have not appreciated a paso all series, and I fear Helen has met her nemesis with it now. Music totally wrong, and ragged wretch look and theme hardly conducive to feistiness, which is probably a challenge for her anyway.
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Old 02-12-2015, 20:49
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I have not appreciated a paso all series, and I fear Helen has met her nemesis with it now. Music totally wrong, and ragged wretch look and theme hardly conducive to feistiness, which is probably a challenge for her anyway.


I feel a bit the same to be honest, she is brilliant at elegant and graceful, but feisty and passionate not so much. We do have her paso face to look forward to which may give as many laughs as the tango face

Think it could be a really unexpected bottom 2 on the judges' leaderboard because Kellie looks OK in her training.
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Old 02-12-2015, 21:17
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Not sure it will because that choreography just didn't look right. It wasn't even that it was danced badly, it was the choreography that was horrible to my eyes. The AT is meant to be intimate and compact, that was anything but
maybe. I am sure there will be Gleb specials!

I feel a bit the same to be honest, she is brilliant at elegant and graceful, but feisty and passionate not so much. We do have her paso face to look forward to which may give as many laughs as the tango face

Think it could be a really unexpected bottom 2 on the judges' leaderboard because Kellie looks OK in her training.
For an actress, to have such a bad tango face is confusing!
I hope her paso will be better.
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Old 02-12-2015, 21:59
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Is there a fluff filter that might need a good clean out?
The external removable fluff filter was clean but I'm not sure what might be going on further inside.

My hairdresser thinks I'm a bit strange anyway so I've nothing to lose
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Old 02-12-2015, 22:07
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maybe. I am sure there will be Gleb specials!.
Yeah, that's the problem!
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Old 02-12-2015, 22:08
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For an actress, to have such a bad tango face is confusing!
I hope her paso will be better.
In fairness, what constitutes a good tango (or Paso) face on Strictly? I mean, what is it they're supposed to be trying to act? So far as I can make out the instructions are to be angry but also sexy and passionate but disdainful and... do a tango face! Scrunch up your face a bit and really focus your eyes and hope the judges are feeling nice.

Paso is.... make a face like a bullfighter and a bull and a cape and also a Spanish dancer. And make sure they can see the dust of the bullring in your face and the anger of the bull but also you're attracted to the matador and you're an inanimate object which is still very, very passionate!

I laugh at the faces as much as anyone but I can see where the celebs get a bit lost with it!
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Old 02-12-2015, 22:12
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In fairness, what constitutes a good tango (or Paso) face on Strictly? I mean, what is it they're supposed to be trying to act? So far as I can make out the instructions are to be angry but also sexy and passionate but disdainful and... do a tango face! Scrunch up your face a bit and really focus your eyes and hope the judges are feeling nice.

Paso is.... make a face like a bullfighter and a bull and a cape and also a Spanish dancer. And make sure they can see the dust of the bullring in your face and the anger of the bull but also you're attracted to the matador and you're an inanimate object which is still very, very passionate!

I laugh at the faces as much as anyone but I can see where the celebs get a bit lost with it!
Scare the back row of The Gods seems to be about it.
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Old 02-12-2015, 22:14
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In fairness, what constitutes a good tango (or Paso) face on Strictly? I mean, what is it they're supposed to be trying to act? So far as I can make out the instructions are to be angry but also sexy and passionate but disdainful and... do a tango face! Scrunch up your face a bit and really focus your eyes and hope the judges are feeling nice.

Paso is.... make a face like a bullfighter and a bull and a cape and also a Spanish dancer. And make sure they can see the dust of the bullring in your face and the anger of the bull but also you're attracted to the matador and you're an inanimate object which is still very, very passionate!

I laugh at the faces as much as anyone but I can see where the celebs get a bit lost with it!
My advice is more what not to do than what to do, so don't do a Vorderumba face in the rumba, don't do a Smugsanna face in the paso, don't look like a hair sniffing serial killer in the AT like the Donovan and don't look like you're trying to poo a particularly large log in the tango.

Also, if you're looking like any one of Emma Bunton, Pamela Stephenson, Susanna Reid or Lisa Riley, you may want to dial it down a few....thousand.

You don't need to thank me 😜😜😜
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Old 02-12-2015, 22:21
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In fairness, what constitutes a good tango (or Paso) face on Strictly? I mean, what is it they're supposed to be trying to act? So far as I can make out the instructions are to be angry but also sexy and passionate but disdainful and... do a tango face! Scrunch up your face a bit and really focus your eyes and hope the judges are feeling nice.

Paso is.... make a face like a bullfighter and a bull and a cape and also a Spanish dancer. And make sure they can see the dust of the bullring in your face and the anger of the bull but also you're attracted to the matador and you're an inanimate object which is still very, very passionate!

I laugh at the faces as much as anyone but I can see where the celebs get a bit lost with it!
Females:
Tango: copy Aliona's expression in the Paso.
Paso: copy Aliona's expression in a Tango.

Pasha did a good tango face when dancing with Kimberly.

Aside from that, bullfighters can have really scary faces when in the ring. When dancing flamenco some expressions are scary!
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