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It's a shame that both Georgia and Helen suffered the most from the extra dancers and I'm sure the distraction of them might have contributed to them being in the DO.
I wonder why Jay and Aliona's dance was the only one which didn't have extra dancers? I think only Kellie, Katie and Anita's dances worked to an extent with having extra dancers in them, and that's only because Kellie's felt more like a group dance and required rowdy-ness and with Katie and Anita the extra dancers didn't impede anyone's view of the dancing and mostly stayed in the background. Nah I think I know why their dance didn't have backing dancers... |
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*Imagines Aliona's look at the producer who dared to utter 'backing dancers' to a Rumba*
Nah I think I know why their dance didn't have backing dancers...
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Yes and boy did they dance!! The routines seemed longer, although they weren't. They physically couldn't breathe they were so exhausted at the end of routines. And Dave Arch actually arranged the music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFEcAzo8Xzg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s585aE6Uy0I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNkExUcCKg8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg8neixzZtU Just a few of my favourites ![]() ![]() Ah - Denise & Ian. Weren't they just fabulous?
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BIB do share
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I don't know whether to thank you or give you a slap round the chops for depressing me even more about the current state of Strictly.
![]() Ah - Denise & Ian. Weren't they just fabulous? ![]()
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Sorry!!! And yes they were just fabulous
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Yes and boy did they dance!! The routines seemed longer, although they weren't. They physically couldn't breathe they were so exhausted at the end of routines. And Dave Arch actually arranged the music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFEcAzo8Xzg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s585aE6Uy0I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNkExUcCKg8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg8neixzZtU Just a few of my favourites ![]() But I think those clips are broken. There are no tables, lampposts, mirrors, chairs, etc. And the music suits the dances. And we can see the dancers at all times. No fecking teapots between them and the camera. That can't be right can it? |
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I'm not a big fan of backing dancers but that musicals night was good entertainment. Strictly is firstly and foremost an entertainment show.
Helen's Les Mis number was overcrowded, etc, but if it had worked it would have been fantastic, better than Caroline Flack's charleston (which also had interfering dancers). |
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SCD as we used to know it is slowly being destroyed year upon year . The songs now are all that matters to the producers, even though most of them are completely wrong for the particular dance .
They're hiring more and more pros who aren't trained in ballroom . We're seeing more and more time wasting, props, backing dancers . The clapping and screaming has got worse as well as all those horrible strobe lights everywhere . I can no longer bear to watch it live but now only watch each dance on iplayer . |
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SCD as we used to know it is slowly being destroyed year upon year . The songs now are all that matters to the producers, even though most of them are completely wrong for the particular dance .
They're hiring more and more pros who aren't trained in ballroom . We're seeing more and more time wasting, props, backing dancers . The clapping and screaming has got worse as well as all those horrible strobe lights everywhere . I can no longer bear to watch it live but now only watch each dance on iplayer . |
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SCD as we used to know it is slowly being destroyed year upon year . The songs now are all that matters to the producers, even though most of them are completely wrong for the particular dance .
They're hiring more and more pros who aren't trained in ballroom . We're seeing more and more time wasting, props, backing dancers . The clapping and screaming has got worse as well as all those horrible strobe lights everywhere . I can no longer bear to watch it live but now only watch each dance on iplayer . |
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I love all the theatrics.
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Me too! I always record the show and scud through to the dances themselves (and the judges comments). I don't even bother to see the training room preambles, they're sometimes relevant but nearly always pointless. An hour's viewing last Saturday only took about 20 minutes to go through and I really don't mind if I never get that time back again!
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