It always reminds me of our Music, Mime and Movement classes at Primary School - and makes about as much sense.

It really depends on the type of contemporary dance you're talking about. At the more lyrical end of the contemporary spectrum the choreography is beautifully expressive and can be quite balletic in technique and movement.

Even the more 'avant garde' type of contemporary is still rooted in good dance technique but that performance last night was just a hot mess, irrespective of who danced it.

In my opinion they would be better sticking to what they do best, which is ballroom.

I wondered if they'd been sent on to do a bit more dancing that they hadn't expected to have to do, maybe to distract from the bad singing. They looked as if they were improvising/making it up as they went along.

I'll have you know I was a bloody amazing tree, waving happily in the breeze..... before being heartlessly chopped down in my prime in order to be chipped and bound as MDF and turned into an Argos corner TV unit.

It was.... a journey!

Oh god, I hated that so much, always wanted to run and hide!

Avante garde contemporary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6lrqx27FcM

The rest of the dance is bloody hilarious an' all.

It's the worst professional dance I ever remember seeing on Strictly. I think I've heard worse songs on there though.

What the actual hell was that ! Looks like a lads night out in Amsterdam!

Nope, 'art'.

It captured the Zeitgeist of now

It was meant to be sensual but it wasnt.

I'll never get tired of seeing that!

I'm not sure it was meant to be solely that.

I think it looked to be an attempt at a series of mixed/conflicting emotions, varying from the aggressively passionate to soft and caressing. Each segment had a bit of both - and I think the emotions were discernible - but any actual story-telling got lost somehow, so for me it didn't really work as a concept.

It looked like some sort of tribal mating dance to me..... if we hear the pitter patter of tiny feet in 9 months we'll know it worked

I went and put the kettle on, didn't like the song or the dancing.

Give it time!

IT looked as if they were free styling a show dance surprised how bad it was. I love the pro dances however the group number was a load of old Ed's too. I
Didn't "connect with the story". Dance Olympics or something. The worst pro dance yet

Joinery, surely?

Oh, very good.

Me too. There was very little romance in that dance.

i finally had a chance to go back and watch it this morning, and it was worse than i expected...

what was that bizarre bit where kevin was doing some weird steppy stepping on the spot?? like a bit of jazz dance for beginners thrown in amongst a movement therapy session...

Yes I agree. I can see what they were aiming to convey but it really really didn't work for me. To be fair, I didn't like the song and wouldn't want to dance to it.


I'm going to try the phrase in my next dance lesson (he doesn't watch Strictly) and see what reaction I get!

It was "the Cliftons". So of course it was hated.

Yep, about as deep as a coat of nail varnish. As I expected.

Some of the gurning KFG was doing would've put Judge Rinders to shame.