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...

Does Daisy have dance training? All I've seen about her is that she danced in a music video once.

Claudia is a gymnast not a dancer, if she is a ringer so was Louis Smith.

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

Louise was a dancer #stage school anyone of the celebs who went there had dance training

Melvin taught dance

Street Dance. apparently

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?

No it didn't which shows that past experience does not always help

It bloody does

Not if your name is Melvin

I think that leaves either Rinder or Greg. I'd be happy with that.

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.

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.

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.

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......😴😴😴

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.

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

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.

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

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.