Is it just me, or are we getting fewer ballroom dances with each series?
Does anyone keep count?
Does anyone keep count?
Proportion of ballroom to latin?
Bizarre- I just posted this on another thread:
But I don't know how this compares with previous series.
Quote:
“Nerdy stat here- apart from Film Week when it was 50:50, there have been more latin dances than ballroom in every show this series, with the most being this week with 7/10.
(I'm counting paso and charleston as latin and tango as BR, right?)”
“Nerdy stat here- apart from Film Week when it was 50:50, there have been more latin dances than ballroom in every show this series, with the most being this week with 7/10.
(I'm counting paso and charleston as latin and tango as BR, right?)”
But I don't know how this compares with previous series.
And as some have pointed out on the Strictly Stats thread- latins almost always get higher YT viewing figures than BR and I think something like 8/10 of the top viewed dances are Latin. So you can't really blame the PTB for giving the public what they seem to want. Personally, I prefer ballroom.
Idk if this will help to anyone keeping count/making spreadsheets, but I do latin and ballroom dancing, and the following are definitely ballroom/latin as they are what I dance and how they are categorised in competitions.
Ballroom
Waltz
Quickstep
Tango
Foxtrot
Viennese Waltz
Latin
Cha cha cha
Rumba
Samba
Jive
Paso Doble
It's easy to get confused with tango if you're a non dancer, since it has quite a latin aesthetic and feel, but look at the hold that it is danced in, and you will see it is clearly ballroom.
The ones which are not latin and ballroom ten dance dances are charleston, argentine tango and salsa. I would probably describe these as "social dances" but I'm no expert. I certainly wouldn't call charleston a latin dance at all, nor is it ballroom.
American smooth is a different version of ballroom dancing, which has steps which are danced out of hold.
Ballroom
Waltz
Quickstep
Tango
Foxtrot
Viennese Waltz
Latin
Cha cha cha
Rumba
Samba
Jive
Paso Doble
It's easy to get confused with tango if you're a non dancer, since it has quite a latin aesthetic and feel, but look at the hold that it is danced in, and you will see it is clearly ballroom.
The ones which are not latin and ballroom ten dance dances are charleston, argentine tango and salsa. I would probably describe these as "social dances" but I'm no expert. I certainly wouldn't call charleston a latin dance at all, nor is it ballroom.
American smooth is a different version of ballroom dancing, which has steps which are danced out of hold.
I only noticed when I saw that Ed had been given yet another latin dance. It would be good to see how he does in ballroom.
Elite is technically correct.
But all my sympathies are with alan29
However I prefer Latin (excluding jive) to whatever it is some of the professionals are churning out.
Less chucking about, less bouncy ball impressions and a bit more elegance and style please.
But all my sympathies are with alan29
However I prefer Latin (excluding jive) to whatever it is some of the professionals are churning out.
Less chucking about, less bouncy ball impressions and a bit more elegance and style please.
Originally Posted by alan29:
“I only noticed when I saw that Ed had been given yet another latin dance. It would be good to see how he does in ballroom.”
“I only noticed when I saw that Ed had been given yet another latin dance. It would be good to see how he does in ballroom.”
About as badly is my prediction.
Originally Posted by Dr Dave:
“About as badly is my prediction.”
“About as badly is my prediction.”
I think such a prediction would be wrong - until he started messing up, the Foxtrot elements of his American Smooth weren't too shabby at all, and he did some decent Waltz in week 1 as well. I suspect if he got a Tango he'd probably do a decent job of it.
It's a shame there isn't more ballroom as I prefer it to Latin by a long way (to dance and to watch), but it'll have to even itself out a bit as the series goes on. Though perhaps gone are the days when the Rumba or Samba were the dances the pros tried to avoid!
Yes i was thinking that i'm not sure how many ballroom dances Greg has done but he seems to have done a lot of latin, hope there's a ballroom number coming up and did Anastacia only do the one which was last week 
Originally Posted by Mystical123:
“I think such a prediction would be wrong - until he started messing up, the Foxtrot elements of his American Smooth weren't too shabby at all, and he did some decent Waltz in week 1 as well. I suspect if he got a Tango he'd probably do a decent job of it
”
“I think such a prediction would be wrong - until he started messing up, the Foxtrot elements of his American Smooth weren't too shabby at all, and he did some decent Waltz in week 1 as well. I suspect if he got a Tango he'd probably do a decent job of it
”
Except he'll be expected to Tango to The Birdie Song, dressed as Big Bird
If you stick to the core 10 disciplines it's 31 latin to 27 ballroom dances so far, which isn't a huge disparity. I think they try to clear the decks of cha cha as early as they can, because it's a pretty boring dance most of the time, and a safe one to give people early over any of the other latins, so that tips the balance in the early weeks to the latin side, with it rebalancing later (there are no more cha chas that can be done this series).
If you expand it and split the other genres (American Smooth and Argentine Tango to ballroom and Charleston and Salsa to Latin) then the obvious issue is that there are just more latin dances in regular rotation early on, because people get very fussy over when the AT can and can't be done, whereas Charleston is really just gooning about with silly faces, and so can be done by anybody at any time. Hence the wider gap - there have been 5 American Smooths vs 4 salsas so far, but 8 Charlestons vs 0 Argentine Tangos.
If you expand it and split the other genres (American Smooth and Argentine Tango to ballroom and Charleston and Salsa to Latin) then the obvious issue is that there are just more latin dances in regular rotation early on, because people get very fussy over when the AT can and can't be done, whereas Charleston is really just gooning about with silly faces, and so can be done by anybody at any time. Hence the wider gap - there have been 5 American Smooths vs 4 salsas so far, but 8 Charlestons vs 0 Argentine Tangos.
