Strictly Come Dancing 2012 – Week 2

Great weekend of teaching in Bournemouth, thanks to Hotel Piccadilly for asking us to host.  Unfortunately our plan to watch the show via iplayer on Saturday night didn’t work as the show was still ‘coming soon’ at 12.30am Sunday morning, so everyone went to bed instead. Sat down on Sunday night to watch when we…

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It Takes Two – Tuesday 9th October

A few days later than intended, here’s Tuesday’s update! On Tuesday’s show they featured Sid & Ola, Fern & Artem and Lisa & Robin along with the return of Karen Hardy’s Choreography Corner.

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Strictly Come Dancing Week 1 Day 2

So we had a pretty busy weekend of teaching and weren’t able to blog during the second show.  I’ve decided to analyse the second show all in one big entry rather than spamming everyone with 8 separate entries two days after the live show. Going forward I’ll probably just do a Monday analysis of the…

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Strictly Training Video analysis

So Strictly starts in a little while and all the training videos have now been released. I’ve decided to analyse them all in one big post rather than 14 individual entries so that you can directly compare all of the pre-show training.

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Strictly Come Dancing 2012 – Premiere

Yes yes I know I haven’t blogged about Strictly, or anything for that matter, in 9 months but I thought it about time to get back into it. The reveal show took place almost two weeks ago and although I watched it at the time, this is the first chance I’ve had to sit down…

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Anita Dobson & Robin Windsor – Salsa

A bit of a stumble but they’re quick to get back into routine, though Anita’s confidence looks to have been knocked. It’s a real shame as they started really well but some of the later sequences just seem to have lost the fire. A cheeky performance but lost it halfway, just a 6 from me.…

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Anita Dobson & Robin Windsor – Waltz

I was quite impressed with Anita’s elegance in training, let’s hope she’s brought it forward to the live show. Could just lift her chest a little bit more to improve her frame, and the heel turn in her double reverse spin was a bit too prominent. I’ve not felt that there’s been much dancing in…

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Strictly Training Video – Anita Dobson & Robin Windsor

  Maybe it’s Anita, and not Alex, who needs L and R written on her!  The number of times we have to say “other left foot”…yet the students just giggle. Anita is looking nice and elegant at the moment, so that’s a great start, though I do wonder how she’ll cope when the Latin dances…

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Strictly Come Dancing – Saturday 27th November

Almost up-to-date and it’s almost time for tonight’s Strictly, seriously where has my Saturday gone?! Not sure on Bruce’s joke about Alisha having a good tan.. First up tonight is Kara Tointon & Artem Chigvintsev, I’m looking forward to seeing their Jive. Artem’s having a few wardrobe issues with his braces and Kara needs to…

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