Kara Tointon & Artem Chigvintsev – Salsa
Salsa starts as a basic and quite easy dance but can soon progress into very complex and intricate moves…and I’m guessing these guys won’t have shied away from that.
They start with a cartwheel over Artem’s shoulder…yet another example of how the Strictly rulebook has gone out of the window!
I feel Kara looks a little wooden at times and her basics are pretty awful, looking laboured and lost. Add in another cartwheel and then a lift to finish and the whole routine just feels forced rather than flowing…Mark Ramprakash it ain’t!
I’m only going to give it a 7.
Craig: 9 “Extremely ambitious routine…did absolutely brilliantly…second part…the choreography let you down”
Len: 9 “Full-on, high energy, flat-out Salsa…absolutely brilliant…sometimes you lose a tad of control”
Alisha: 9 “One of the best openings to the show…did miss the ‘armography’ that I expect”
Bruno: 9 “Never seen anyone put so many head [flicks]…made a mistake…eliminate the little things”
Total Score: 36
Hmm, interesting…to me that really wasn’t a good Salsa with head-flicks that seemed out of place and footwork that was all over the place…maybe it’s just too early in the morning for me?
I’ve watched it back and maybe an 8 due to complexity but I still wouldn’t have given it a 9.