I started this thread for bit of fun. To choose our favourites and then see the journey each celebrity made.
I find your remark a bit condescending Frank. You may have danced from an early age and I may have just danced round my handbag....as you put it. I may not understand all the technicalities but I do see a mistake when it's made.........when the camera actually let's you.
I don't want to get into a row over a TV programme, to me it's just for enjoying the show and a bit of chat on here.
KT53, I would not argue with that we all know a bad note or a mistake in dancing and when an engine is not running in tune, the question being can you fix it? Dancing is not just making a mistake it is a complicated whole of correct footwork heeling toeing sliding picking the foot up. Then comes armology, body stance, core, correct head position and up and down movement, each dance form has different needs. Had you ever been in a dance competition you would know the actual dance is an expectation it is the posture and all of the above the judges look for before you get that tap on the shoulder saying leave the floor, you will not be in the final dance off and you never know why, the judges do not have to say.
I was supposedly a whizz at tuning R.R. Eagle engines, then we got a Crypton, so eye ear and feel where replaced with exactitude a big difference.
God Frank, you can be a condescending **** at times!
I've been watching Strictly from the first series and have learnt over that time to understand, at least in part, what the judges are looking for - even if some of the pro's clearly haven't!
Dance has changed over the years. If you want to go back to the days of Come Dancing with the Military Two Step, formation dances with miles of tuile et al, may I suggest you do an online search as I'm sure somebody will have recorded them and put them on Youtube by now.
Strictly is certainly an entertainment show, not pure dance but it's none the worse for that.
KT53, You are right I am a bit what you said, there are plenty of dances on U-tube and I certainly danced in those years watching come dancing from way back when possible though my wife and I also danced well into our retirement years keeping up with modern trends through the younger family members. There is social dancing and competition dancing and never the twain shall meet. Strictly may start off every year as an entertainment show so how come it always ends up with the good dancers at the top?
I suggest people should watch some of the Tango's and Rumba's on utube to see how it should be done plus the Argentine Tango as done in Argentina, quite an eye opener.
I shan't post on here what I'm thinking at the moment, I shall take step back and bite my tongue.
One, because I wouldn't want this thread taken off.....and Two....because I was brought up to respect my elders.....although at times .......
I too record this now and do exactly the same......whizz through the boring stuff and just watch the Dance and judges. It's nowhere near as good as it was in previous years. Maybe it has run it's course.......the 'celebrities' aren't really the same either
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I started this thread for bit of fun. To choose our favourites and then see the journey each celebrity made.
I find your remark a bit condescending Frank. You may have danced from an early age and I may have just danced round my handbag....as you put it. I may not understand all the technicalities but I do see a mistake when it's made.........when the camera actually let's you.
I don't want to get into a row over a TV programme, to me it's just for enjoying the show and a bit of chat on here.
It's probably a fix half the time anyway
Agree with you KT53
Well it is all down to the Public vote on Saturday , wonder if the Judges comments make much difference to the voting ?
KT53, I would not argue with that we all know a bad note or a mistake in dancing and when an engine is not running in tune, the question being can you fix it? Dancing is not just making a mistake it is a complicated whole of correct footwork heeling toeing sliding picking the foot up. Then comes armology, body stance, core, correct head position and up and down movement, each dance form has different needs. Had you ever been in a dance competition you would know the actual dance is an expectation it is the posture and all of the above the judges look for before you get that tap on the shoulder saying leave the floor, you will not be in the final dance off and you never know why, the judges do not have to say.
I was supposedly a whizz at tuning R.R. Eagle engines, then we got a Crypton, so eye ear and feel where replaced with exactitude a big difference.
Frank.
God Frank, you can be a condescending **** at times!
I've been watching Strictly from the first series and have learnt over that time to understand, at least in part, what the judges are looking for - even if some of the pro's clearly haven't!
Dance has changed over the years. If you want to go back to the days of Come Dancing with the Military Two Step, formation dances with miles of tuile et al, may I suggest you do an online search as I'm sure somebody will have recorded them and put them on Youtube by now.
Strictly is certainly an entertainment show, not pure dance but it's none the worse for that.
KT53, You are right I am a bit what you said, there are plenty of dances on U-tube and I certainly danced in those years watching come dancing from way back when possible though my wife and I also danced well into our retirement years keeping up with modern trends through the younger family members. There is social dancing and competition dancing and never the twain shall meet. Strictly may start off every year as an entertainment show so how come it always ends up with the good dancers at the top?
I suggest people should watch some of the Tango's and Rumba's on utube to see how it should be done plus the Argentine Tango as done in Argentina, quite an eye opener.
Frank.
I shan't post on here what I'm thinking at the moment, I shall take step back and bite my tongue.
One, because I wouldn't want this thread taken off.....and Two....because I was brought up to respect my elders.....although at times .......
I too record this now and do exactly the same......whizz through the boring stuff and just watch the Dance and judges. It's nowhere near as good as it was in previous years. Maybe it has run it's course.......the 'celebrities' aren't really the same either
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Hazel
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It is good to talk and have different opinions
Looking forward to final ??