Vincent says "not fair on the Matt & Mark"

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mindyann

13-12-2006

Originally Posted by Erinfan:
“The thing I think it helps the most with is arms and lines. The real presentation elements of dance and things that would have been drilled into them. Eveything else is a bit different.

Really not doing the dreaded b*****g of Emma, but where I think she has a massive advantage is not so much stage school or dance experience, but the years of performing live in front of a big audience and being used to presenting herself, working with a crowd and really turning it on, on a stage.”

I agree with you.
And not b*****g either, but Emma really does have an advantage there.

Also, she is used to all the other 'stuff' that goes with SCD, the press, the interviews, how to conduct herself, how to give a 10 minute interview without saying anything at all.

Quite a few of the other celebs are not half so well up on this side of things - Mark will have been interviewed as part of the cricket - but could probably have got away with a variation on 'sick as a parrot' or 'over the moon' - and the fact that he is uneasy out of his own environment has been shown in spades, and Louisa strikes me as a young girl who lets her tongue run away before the brain is in gear, which is actually quite endearing!

With Emma you feel that you are getting the 'public' face whereas with Mark and Louisa you do feel that you are being shown a glimpse of the real them.

batmobile2

13-12-2006

Having not seen the interview, I am not going to claim to know better than others have said but if he just meant 'Emma is the best dancer left' then surely he would be supporting her as it would be silly to support someone who was worse than her. (Does that make sense?) So he must be saying the other two were already 'dancers' rather than 'have become better dancers than Mark and Matt' because why would he support an inferior dancer unless it was because they have started from less?

SnapCracklePop

13-12-2006

Originally Posted by mindyann:
“With Emma you feel that you are getting the 'public' face whereas with Mark and Louisa you do feel that you are being shown a glimpse of the real them.”

I think this is the reason why the public haven't warmed to her as much. She doesn't seem to put as much passion and energy into the programme & dancing, whereas a lot of the other celebrities (including the afformentioned Louisa & Mark) have given it everything & you can see that.

easygoingremi

13-12-2006

Vincent would earn my respect for saying this if he had said them while he and Loiusa were still competing

arddunol

14-12-2006

Originally Posted by batmobile2:
“Having not seen the interview, I am not going to claim to know better than others have said but if he just meant 'Emma is the best dancer left' then surely he would be supporting her as it would be silly to support someone who was worse than her. (Does that make sense?) So he must be saying the other two were already 'dancers' rather than 'have become better dancers than Mark and Matt' because why would he support an inferior dancer unless it was because they have started from less?”

He quite specifically said Emma and Louisa were the best dancers because they had dancing experience and he was glad they had been against a dancer in the dance off .
He then said it was not fairr to put Markand Matt up against dancers .
He was supporting the men.

Famke

14-12-2006

Batmobile,

I agree with what Arddunol already wrote. Vincent isn’t denying Emma is the best dancer left in the competition… it was more he was commenting on the uneven playing field… i.e. Emma (trained dancer) competing against Matt & Mark (no dance training) and therefore his vote was going to one of the guys.

Some people might think that Emma & Louisa's dance training at stage school gives them no unfair advantage... obviously Vincent thinks differently.

dancingbearbear

14-12-2006

Originally Posted by diyqueen:
“Just because you have been to stage school doesn't mean you are any good at dancing.
At this stage you either have "it" or you haven't stage school or not”

No, but it does mean you have considerably more experience than your average rugby player or cricketer.

dancingbearbear

14-12-2006

Originally Posted by RedEvo:
“Using that rationale the girl from Casualty should have been quite good. Trust me, being able to act or going to drama school won't make you a good dancer, especially ballroom.

I've seen excellent Ceroc/Salsa dancers crumble in a heap when faced with some simple ballroom steps ”

Georgina didn't go to Sylvia Young, which includes dance as a vast part of it's curriculum, as its more a stage school than a drama college.

According to the Casualty website she actually trained as a barrister before getting into acting ~ and I can state with 100% confidence that barristers do not get dance training as par for the course!

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