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if we take the ringers out of scd who will win
musicangel
24-09-2016
I love scd, have from the start but year on year more and more celebrities' with (dance training) have been included this year:

Louise
Danny
Daisy
Claudia

This used to be a show about people #learning to dance.....

That's what I'm looking for don't treat the gbp as fools either Kevin isn't gonna win...
Ellie1967
24-09-2016
Does Daisy have dance training? All I've seen about her is that she danced in a music video once.
Christopher D
24-09-2016
Originally Posted by musicangel:
“I love scd, have from the start but year on year more and more celebrities' with (dance training) have been included this year:

Louise
Danny
Daisy
Claudia

This used to be a show about people #learning to dance.....

That's what I'm looking for don't treat the gbp as fools either Kevin isn't gonna win...”

Claudia is a gymnast not a dancer, if she is a ringer so was Louis Smith.
Nina_Blake
24-09-2016
Where do you draw the line though, is the problem.

Anastacia started her career as a backing dancer in music videos
Melvin taught dance
Tameka has stage training
Laura did Irish dancing
Will did a term of musical theatre, but did ballet classes later
Lesley did ballet as a child and has recent stage experience
Andy_Smith1
24-09-2016
Originally Posted by Nina_Blake:
“Where do you draw the line though, is the problem.

Anastacia started her career as a backing dancer in music videos
Melvin taught dance
Tameka has stage training
Laura did Irish dancing
Will did a term of musical theatre, but did ballet classes later
Lesley did ballet as a child and has recent stage experience”

Hardly helpful in ballroom and Latin competition where you use HANDS as well as feet
musicangel
24-09-2016
Louise was a dancer #stage school anyone of the celebs who went there had dance training
Tissy
24-09-2016
Originally Posted by Nina_Blake:
“Where do you draw the line though, is the problem.

Anastacia started her career as a backing dancer in music videos
Melvin taught dance
Tameka has stage training
Laura did Irish dancing
Will did a term of musical theatre, but did ballet classes later
Lesley did ballet as a child and has recent stage experience”

Melvin taught dance
Christopher D
24-09-2016
Originally Posted by Tissy:
“Melvin taught dance ”

Street Dance. apparently
StrictlyRed
24-09-2016
Didn't help him much today, did it?
kochspostulates
24-09-2016
Originally Posted by StrictlyRed:
“Didn't help him much today, did it?”


I thought he was the worst out of all of them . Maybe if he does a dance in future that is more street dance in style, he might be better?
Christopher D
24-09-2016
Originally Posted by StrictlyRed:
“Didn't help him much today, did it?”

No it didn't which shows that past experience does not always help
musicangel
24-09-2016
It bloody does
Christopher D
24-09-2016
Originally Posted by musicangel:
“It bloody does”

Not if your name is Melvin
bobbla
24-09-2016
I think that leaves either Rinder or Greg. I'd be happy with that.
Nina_Blake
24-09-2016
Originally Posted by Andy_Smith1:
“Hardly helpful in ballroom and Latin competition where you use HANDS as well as feet”

Yes, because they're walking on their hands for the whole dance...Tf? Seriously.

Anyway. The thread is about dance experience - and regardless of your opinion on it, Irish dancing is a dance form.
jacksinclairx
24-09-2016
The majority of the people willing to participate in Strictly have some sort of previous dance experience, it's only really sports stars that come from having nothing. On a personal level I would rather see a series full of ringers rather than not.
Arcana
24-09-2016
People nonchalantly reverse their opinions on ringers from year to year depending on who their pets happen to be for that series.

The annual round of ringer whinging has very little credibility as far as I'm concerned.
claire2281
24-09-2016
Unless someone is trained in ballroom and latin dancing I couldn't care less. You'd be hard pressed to find those in the entertainment industry who didn't have some form of dance in their background. Especially if they went to stage school.

Hell, I've learned and performed dance routines before to pop songs. I can't say I feel any more able to do the waltz because of it!
Cally's mum
24-09-2016
Originally Posted by claire2281:
“Unless someone is trained in ballroom and latin dancing I couldn't care less. You'd be hard pressed to find those in the entertainment industry who didn't have some form of dance in their background. Especially if they went to stage school.

Hell, I've learned and performed dance routines before to pop songs. I can't say I feel any more able to do the waltz because of it!”

Indeed.

We get a similar thread every single soddin year.

B-o-r-i-n-g......😴😴😴
Thistlewhistle
25-09-2016
I would class doing Irish dancing in school as much as an advantage as Olympic level long jumping.

One gives you the ability to jump over Natalie Lowe (standing!) and a large amount of stamina, and the other teaches you to stand in a line with twenty of your other equally uninterested school chums and waggle your feet.

I'd say all the celebs have their own advantages; Laura, for example, doesn't have the name recognition that Lesely has to the prime demographic of the show.
Andy_Smith1
25-09-2016
Originally Posted by Nina_Blake:
“Yes, because they're walking on their hands for the whole dance...Tf? Seriously.

Anyway. The thread is about dance experience - and regardless of your opinion on it, Irish dancing is a dance form.”

No but they use their hands in every dance in strictly for everything unlike in irish dancing when you never use them It isn't as useful or in the same league as other dance forms to this competition, plus didn't she say she did it for a year a stopped at 14/15 or something hardly massive experience
Nina_Blake
25-09-2016
Originally Posted by Thistlewhistle:
“I would class doing Irish dancing in school as much as an advantage as Olympic level long jumping.

One gives you the ability to jump over Natalie Lowe (standing!) and a large amount of stamina, and the other teaches you to stand in a line with twenty of your other equally uninterested school chums and waggle your feet.

I'd say all the celebs have their own advantages; Laura, for example, doesn't have the name recognition that Lesely has to the prime demographic of the show.”

I agree that Irish dancing at school isn't a huge advantage at all - but my point is that if you effectively "outlaw" ringers of any kind, where do you draw the line.

Almost all the contestants have experience of some form.
Thistlewhistle
25-09-2016
Originally Posted by Nina_Blake:
“I agree that Irish dancing at school isn't a huge advantage at all - but my point is that if you effectively "outlaw" ringers of any kind, where do you draw the line.

Almost all the contestants have experience of some form.”

Absolutely. I don't mind people with a bit of experience at all. I think that Natalie Gumede put out some absolutely stonking dances that I'm glad I got to see.

My only gripe about ringerdom is that it seems to tar women FAR more than males. Natalie G, as an example, was fairly upfront about it and got destroyed, especially on this forum. In contrast, St. Jay last year saw relatively light amounts of backlash (still detractors of course, but nowhere near Denise, Natalie, Rachel levels despite being fairly
equal with them in terms of talent and experience).

In my opinion anyways.
Nina_Blake
25-09-2016
Originally Posted by Thistlewhistle:
“Absolutely. I don't mind people with a bit of experience at all. I think that Natalie Gumede put out some absolutely stonking dances that I'm glad I got to see.

My only gripe about ringerdom is that it seems to tar women FAR more than males. Natalie G, as an example, was fairly upfront about it and got destroyed, especially on this forum. In contrast, St. Jay last year saw relatively light amounts of backlash (still detractors of course, but nowhere near Denise, Natalie, Rachel levels despite being fairly
equal with them in terms of talent and experience).

In my opinion anyways.”

I'm sure everyone has heard quite enough of my opinion on this subject - so I'll just say that I totally agree with you
thenetworkbabe
25-09-2016
Originally Posted by musicangel:
“I love scd, have from the start but year on year more and more celebrities' with (dance training) have been included this year:

Louise
Danny
Daisy
Claudia

This used to be a show about people #learning to dance.....

That's what I'm looking for don't treat the gbp as fools either Kevin isn't gonna win...”

Never has been . Jill Halfpenny went to drama school, and child theatre schools. Tom won with a show dance he had been developing since drama school. You won't get many actors these days who haven't had 3 years of dance training, and even fewer won't have learnt it in school or junior theatre schools.
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