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bluedomino · 03/11/2019 19:39

Why two men dancing together but not two women dancing together? The woman had to have a male partner. Why does the BBC persist in telling us men can woman better than women!

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TinselAngel · 03/11/2019 22:19

Sorry OP, I've managed to derail your rather more serious minded thread

I think my middle aged lady twinges derailed it first, to be fair.

FannyCann · 03/11/2019 22:18

Sorry OP, I've managed to derail your rather more serious minded thread 

It's Sunday evening. Half term is over. We all need a break and a joke now and again. Grin

FannyCann · 03/11/2019 22:15

I love Katya. She has a great sense of humour and is a brilliant choreographer. Plus a hard task master.

DuMondeB · 03/11/2019 22:15

Slight digression but this is probably as relevant this video, one of my favourites, will ever be to the MN FWR board - 1939 footage of (mostly) women dancing together at the New York World Fair: m.youtube.com/watch?v=WB28EIKC4DE

BeMoreMagdalen · 03/11/2019 22:14

(Sorry OP, I've managed to derail your rather more serious minded thread Blush )

BeMoreMagdalen · 03/11/2019 22:13

Yes, Katya manages to pull entertainment and invention out of utter duds as partners. She's a bit like Anton, if Anton was a really talented choreographer as well as the running crap partner joke.

FannyCann · 03/11/2019 22:10

DH commented that there was a whiff of rickets about Mike’s Charleston basic.

DD says he looks so stressed all the time, we are both concerned he will collapse with a heart attack. Shock

TinselAngel · 03/11/2019 22:08

the coveted Blackpool exit.

Is that a euphemism ?

DuMondeB · 03/11/2019 22:07

I do like Katya though, her Matrix themed Paso (two words that most definitely do not belong together) last year was ace.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=JG5foTubeyI

BeMoreMagdalen · 03/11/2019 22:04

Quite. You get away with it in the Charleston maybe, but I was describing his ballroom Grin

LeftHandDown · 03/11/2019 22:03

Strictly are apparently considering allowing same sex couples from 2020, so it may become more common in future.

www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7412947/Strictly-Come-Dancing-Bosses-FINALLY-allow-sex-couples-year.html

TinaBarrow · 03/11/2019 22:03

Wow, those DecaVitas are incredible, thanks DuMonde

DuMondeB · 03/11/2019 22:03

DH commented that there was a whiff of rickets about Mike’s Charleston basic.

BeMoreMagdalen · 03/11/2019 21:59

I mean Katya is very good value as a choreographer, but damn. He's a bit like watching the barrel chested frogs from Flushed Away gambol and stomp about with jazz hands and gurning aplenty.

DuMondeB · 03/11/2019 21:56

No doubt Mike will have the coveted Blackpool exit.

Fingers crossed anyway

BeMoreMagdalen · 03/11/2019 21:53

Although, tbh, I'm mainly concerned at the utterly bizarre fact that the judges have repeatedly kept Mike Bushell in...

BeMoreMagdalen · 03/11/2019 21:51

They have been doing it for a while, in fits and starts.

DuMondeB · 03/11/2019 21:45

And this one from 2014 - same sex partnerships quickstep around 1.34

m.youtube.com/watch?v=QVa4T4_hRXQ

DuMondeB · 03/11/2019 21:21

This group routine from last year has male/male and female/female partnerships from about 1.30

m.youtube.com/watch?v=7lmzawC-7QU

Karen and Katya 😍

Squidsister · 03/11/2019 21:14

However in Michelle and Giovanni’s pasa doble, she started off in the female role and then switched to a male role, so another matador. So I think they are trying to mix things up in other ways. I like the two men dancing together, I thought it worked well.

TinselAngel · 03/11/2019 21:09

Tinsel, have you ever seen the footage of Artem leading James in Kara’s Rumba choreo?

I have now! Shock

Dangerfloof · 03/11/2019 21:07

Radical thought here, why not both.
Am bloody sure they could find two women to partner and obviously not a problem finding two men as they have done.

BeMoreMagdalen · 03/11/2019 21:04

🤣😂🤣😂🤣

DuMondeB · 03/11/2019 21:01

I haven’t watched it yet, but I can offer a salve in the form of the DecaVitas:

Most teachers of partner dance can both lead and follow and it’s good to showcase that - would be more interesting to see a woman lead a man on Strictly though, or at least it would to this dance nerd’s eyes!

Tinsel, have you ever seen the footage of Artem leading James in Kara’s Rumba choreo?

TinselAngel · 03/11/2019 21:01

I could watch those two break the ground all day.