I could barely watch Jane dance tonight. First, the outfit looked all wrong for her. The skirt showed her skinny legs and the fact that more of them showed just emphasized her awkwardness when dancing jive. If they would have given her more of an outfit like they gave Jennie for the group dance, it probably would have hid some of the awkwardness in her long legs and it wouldnt have looked so bad. Plus they just looked like they were trying to make her look too young, and it wasnt believable. I'm afraid she's going to go this week.
I liked Jennie's mambo and Helio's chacha because they looked like they were having fun doing it. Agree with the others that there wasnt much to the routines, though.
Marie's paso was disappointing. I did feel like she played it safe....he had her either posing or on the floor most of the time and it just seemed, well slow and not as energetic as I would have hoped. Compare it to Jennie's from earlier on, and it lacked sooo much.
Mel's rumba wasnt the greatest, but it did seem the closest to "right" of all the dances of the night. Max does well with rumbas. I think Samantha hurt her with the comment about the 6 hours of practice, though. Bet that cost quite a few votes. Great going, Samantha.
I didnt understand how Edyta's and Cameron's indian outfits fit with brazilian samba.
And they slowed down the music to a crawl! What a great song to dance to when done at regular speed. If he couldnt have done it at regular speed, couldnt they at least have let him TRY to do it somewhere in between? It was blatantly obvious that they had slowed it down so he could do what he needed to do. The samba wasnt bad but I felt as if I was watching it in slow motion or something.
Sabrina would be great if she could just understand how to do "slow". Cant Mark explain it to her and get her to understand? Maybe let her watch some pros do a real foxtrot or waltz or something(like Valentina, who danced just last week....even when doing faster movements, she is still so smooth). She kept flinging her head and self around, which made for jumpy transitions rather than smooth ones.
The only thing I truly liked tonight was the group dance. Which was a surprise to me, as I didnt like the one Christian and his group of dancers did the other night and dont like the style in general. I think its because the women purposefully try to not look graceful and instead land their jumps and such with knees open and flat footed, etc.
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