Just to confirm, I wasn't calling them "The Children of the Damned" that's what Bruno called them when they were the ITT Alternative Forum and passing their comments. I thought it was lovely to see them dance after hearing their comments on the professionals and celebrities.

well i don't know much about dancing but i know what i like and i loved these kids. they were really calm, danced superbly and looked as though they were really enjoying themselves.and that can't have been easy on live tv in front of millions, as has already been mentioned. i just hope that in the future we will have youngsters back in the top flight of competition. perhaps all of the publicity that SCD brings will help, as well as the children's show dance factory, which involves experienced young dancers(from all sorts of disciplines, such as irish, hip hop, tap, and bhangra - sorry if i spelt that wrong) being paired with inexperienced kids, learning routines then going on to compete and be voted for on a saturday morning show. i hope that this all contributes to a fresh interest in dancing, getting kids off the sofa and into a dance class somewhere, as i have posted elsewhere..

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Should have been on Blue Peter. Each week I watch the pro demo a million times until the next week but I shall have to watch the GREAT Latin free style from last week all next week(no prob with Brendon, Andrew and Matthew) but a new one would have been appreciated.

I enjoyed them too- tho it looks like an 'unnatural' dancing style- I'd have enjoyed it more if the cameraman had let us see more of the whole group-I'm getting so irritated by the poor camerawork on the show generally.
Was it poor Ian who almost fell over the cameraman?
Why oh why cant they just stand still?- no not the dancers.

The posture comes from the spine.. you pull up out of your waist and then lean back and the head is placed to the left. You train to do this so the girls wouldn't have felt uncomfortable as they were stretched enough to do it. I spent hours practising my posture as a child.

I thought the children looked particularly children-like and not like mini-adults at all. If anything... their performance was mature... they all held it together brilliantly especially when you think that this was probably their TV debut on the most amazing show.. it was probably a dream come true for them. I do get worried sometimes with the costumes the 12 & overs can wear particularly in the Latin... when I was competing I used to think how old the 14 and 15 year olds were and there was always a big deal made when a couple reached 16 and could no longer compete in the Junior sections. Glasses of wine all round for the fellow competitors. It's all very gentlmen and lady-like. Now I realise how young they actually are (though I waited for ever to reach that age in Ballroom comps!)

Agree with all bendymixer has said above.

There's a BBC video with lots of clips of the original Come Dancing over the last 30 years. Apart from the TOTALLY MAD frocks (wider than jumbo jet's wing span) there's clips of an 18 yr old Ian Waite and Anton in 1994 (before he changed his name) dancing for Midlands and West or Home Counties South or some such.

yes but was talking about them as children remember Ian as young teenager and tony was about 32 ten years ago I actually have that whole series of 1994 and a couple before recorded cos my brother was on them!

These kids freak me out too!!! There is something just so unnatural about it!!!

The OTT make-up, frocks that just look odd on them, and their limbs writihin about at an unnaturally fast speed for children!

I know they need to start young to become pros but how about they practice in private until they are a bit older!!!

Very freaky!!!

Nat
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aww nat just think it came across wrong the dresses are regulation and look lovely in 'real life' granted their expressions are were over the top but I put that down to being on TV probably for first time. In competitions over the country they really do just look like normal little uns dancing beautifully

Not a big fan of kids normally and sorry they were like robots, everything was technically perfect (probably) and their posture was probably programmed into them from age 3. The smiles weren't so much fixed as frozen in liquid nitrogen any deviation would have meant their faces would fall off. I just felt they weren't dancing for the fun of it, only because they had been dragged every Saturday morning to 'Madama Za Za's School of Dance' for the last nine years and this is what they had been ordered to do.

Maybe when they appreciate dancing for what is should be in a few years I might be able to enjoy it.

I thought the children looked like they were beaming and really proud to be dancing. And I don't doubt that they loved it for one moment! There is something that looks more restrained about most children dancing as they haven't yet learned how to give it their all in terms of letting go and having the confidence to just perform. A very few children have that ability....and that again is a difference between a child and a professional adult dancing.

LMAO!!!

Was that the mason who reviewed brendans rumba with fiona!?? lmao!! hehe im sorry im crying thinking what brendan said to him!! bet he just laughed!!

I just watched it on tape. I really loved it. There is a large audience of children that love watching SCD with their family each week, and just think what a difference it has made to them to see kids their own age doing that? I really hope it gives that little extra push when the kids say 'mummy I want to learn"... I thought they looked beautiful and honestly felt it was no more unnatural than seeing young people do anything very very well - like young virtuoso violinists, or athletes.

They also had an excellent choice of song Almost custard tactics... but more likely to be down to coincidence Where are my tap shoes!?

I'm sure we all saw the clip of the young dancers on ITT last evening; I'm not sure about young Mason; pretentious...moi!

I have copied this onto DVD and will be happy to let you have a copy, if you wish, no charge.

These children were brilliant. They have been taught to do the basics really well and my wife and I were privileged to see such skill by these young stars.

Last month we watched a young couple give a ballroom demo at the Scarborough Dance Festival, and it was SO amazing! Why? Well, the young chap, Kyle Taylor is just 15 and his partner, Jourdan Stone, was 14 (but she insisted on announcing that she was NEARLY 15). They've been dancing for a couple or three years together and I can honestly say that their performance was quite superb. I am sure that, if they stick at it, they will be world champs in 10 dance! On top of their massive training and travelling efforts in dance they of course have their school work to contend with. What a credit to British youngsters!