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Old 12-11-2016, 21:07
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I've just done that and it worked better for me, anyway.
I'm still on the Ed bit.
I need a rest before I move on from that.
Second viewing it's even more crazy




Bruno - 'its the best worst dance I've seen' .
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Old 12-11-2016, 21:08
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I assumed that they were going to slow down Grapevine for that AT, but they seem to have sped it up
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Old 12-11-2016, 21:10
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I assumed that they were going to slow down Grapevine for that AT, but they seem to have sped it up
I think the original would have been better after hearing that!

He got 38 but the reason why Craig and Darcey thought it was too frenetic is because the music stated that's the path they had to take.
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Old 12-11-2016, 21:10
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Thanks.
9 sounds good to me.
Im just re watching the show, I might mute the music when I get to Danny & Oti again.
I'm considering randomly playing one couple's music whilst watching another couples dance
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Old 12-11-2016, 21:12
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I'm considering randomly playing one couple's music whilst watching another couples dance
Gangnam style to all of 'em.
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Old 12-11-2016, 21:17
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Why do they keep saying Blackpool is magical?

It's a dump full of Hen and Stag party revellers wandering about in drunken hoardes.
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Old 12-11-2016, 21:23
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May I unappreciate Kevin's decision to 'give 'em the old glossy Fosse - glossy Fosse 'em (dip and undulate)'
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Old 12-11-2016, 21:26
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I'm considering randomly playing one couple's music whilst watching another couples dance
Last week I rewatched Claudia&AJ's paso with a proper paso track and it was much better!! Really looked like a paso
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Old 12-11-2016, 21:28
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Thank you to whoever suggested watching Danny and Oti's AT with the sound off. I loved it anyway, but it's so much better watched in silence.

I also re-watched Ed and Katya's dance and Craigs 4 is just ludicrous. Ed was much more accomplished with his lifts (bar the first one) that Ore was last week. He's still getting one of my 3 votes as he's still very watchable (Daisy's legs got the other two).
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Old 12-11-2016, 21:32
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Thank you to whoever suggested watching Danny and Oti's AT with the sound off. I loved it anyway, but it's so much better watched in silence.

I also re-watched Ed and Katya's dance and Craigs 4 is just ludicrous. Ed was much more accomplished with his lifts (bar the first one) that Ore was last week. He's still getting one of my 3 votes as he's still very watchable (Daisy's legs got the other two).
'twas I.

I often do it.
The song choices are often so distracting.
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Old 12-11-2016, 21:41
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Hahhhhhaaaa! Nutter!

I think the phone box was 'the grapevine' but it did rather misfire!


I think the AT is my favourite dance to watch done well.
It's so bewitching and intimate but it doesn't give me the cringies like the rhumba.
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Old 12-11-2016, 21:42
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'twas I.

I often do it.
The song choices are often so distracting.
I sometimes do that too....Thanks so much for reminding .... already loved Doti's AT ... but just watched it with Louise's music ... and so much more electric ... that music was wasted on Louise's posing last week ...
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Old 12-11-2016, 21:46
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Thank you to whoever suggested watching Danny and Oti's AT with the sound off. I loved it anyway, but it's so much better watched in silence.

I also re-watched Ed and Katya's dance and Craigs 4 is just ludicrous. Ed was much more accomplished with his lifts (bar the first one) that Ore was last week. He's still getting one of my 3 votes as he's still very watchable (Daisy's legs got the other two).
Here's one for Conspiracy Theorists: in a dance choreographed by an outside advisor, Ore and Jo only got their lifts added to their salsa at the very end of their week's training. According to Ore on ITT. Lifts took up maybe 30% of the routine...
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Old 12-11-2016, 21:49
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I sometimes do that too....Thanks so much for reminding .... already loved Doti's AT ... but just watched it with Louise's music ... and so much more electric ... that music was wasted on Louise's posing last week ...
Louise just seemed to shove her leg into place.

I much preferred her performance this week...... although not that much because she is tainted with essence of Clifton.
Most unfortunate.



This week I did appreciate Joanne from Grimsby's nano strop when the first score for Tiny Tears was 'only' an 8.
She didn't like that, did she.
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Old 12-11-2016, 21:51
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Yes, the lead comes from the chest so that connection is crucial. There are different styles of AT though - neuvo (open hold, very contemporary) Salon - distinct A frame, Milongeuro in very close hold. But you do move in and out of that when you dance certain steps.

Vincent and Flavia are great, but they do not dance authentic AT but their own version of it. Do not use them as a benchmark for AT, but as two people doing their own thing with tango.

Here is a true AT for you to watch. You will see what I mean. Danny and Oti really were very good

So sorry you are not well. Wish you better soon.
Thanks for the link, sofakat. I think that's my favourite clip of AT I've ever seen. Are those guys well known in the AT world? I don't know good AT from bad, but as a couple, I loved the way they moved together. Really unfussy but truly linked to each other.

Always love hearing your informed comments (although it's a shame we were deprived of a rant this week!)
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Old 12-11-2016, 21:56
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Here's one for Conspiracy Theorists: in a dance choreographed by an outside advisor, Ore and Jo only got their lifts added to their salsa at the very end of their week's training. According to Ore on ITT. Lifts took up maybe 30% of the routine...
That's bonkers, isn't it.
I like Ore, especially non-Strictly Ore.
I'm not sure what it is that is 'off' for me with Strictly Ore - probably something to do with the partnership with Joanne being either too much or too little?
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Old 12-11-2016, 21:57
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Why do they keep saying Blackpool is magical?

It's a dump full of Hen and Stag party revellers wandering about in drunken hoardes.
I think "Blackpool" magic is solely reserved for the Tower ballroom, which undeniably is a lovely floor to dance on.
Blackpool itself, is indeed an experience, if only to say you've been.
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Old 12-11-2016, 21:58
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I think "Blackpool" magic is solely reserved for the Tower ballroom, which undeniably is a lovely floor to dance on.
Blackpool itself, is indeed an experience, if only to say you've been.
You forgot Political Party Conferences.
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Old 12-11-2016, 22:02
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Why do they keep saying Blackpool is magical?

It's a dump full of Hen and Stag party revellers wandering about in drunken hoardes.
And that's just Darceys dressing room
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Old 12-11-2016, 22:03
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You forgot Political Party Conferences.
That's probably the best way to deal with them.
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Old 12-11-2016, 22:03
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Why do they keep saying Blackpool is magical?

It's a dump full of Hen and Stag party revellers wandering about in drunken hoardes.
Sounds a bit like the Strictly production team... especially when picking music.
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Old 12-11-2016, 22:09
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Unappreciating the overmarking of Ore + Joanne's rumba & Louise + TTF's American Smooth - both dances were very dull tonight
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Old 12-11-2016, 22:13
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I love Churches
I just like the idea of these places being used for worship for centuries - way before organised religion in lots of cases - and think that build up of faith is powerful.
Exits, in embarrassment
Me too. I'm an agnostic but love the 1662 prayer book and singing Tudor church music in England's great cathedrals gives me goosebumps.
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Old 12-11-2016, 22:17
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Unappreciating the overmarking of Ore + Joanne's rumba & Louise + TTF's American Smooth - both dances were very dull tonight
Louise had just the one moment in that dance when I saw really free movement through shoulders and back and I thought she was about to break through. But no - she immediately retreated back to 'placed'. Shame.
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Old 12-11-2016, 22:17
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Me too. I'm an agnostic but love the 1662 prayer book and singing Tudor church music in England's great cathedrals gives me goosebumps.
Gregorian chants are superb. One has to admire the architecture and masons who put the work into these stunning buildings, with none of the modern machinery we have now.

I also like reading church based crime novels despite being a non believer.
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