SCD#7 - It's the Glittery Semi-Finals

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And off we sassshhayy...

I think Gleb is very cold, and icy and serious like Russians tend to be. Artem was the same from memory. You justhave to try and melt that cold, hard exterior..... I'm sorry, I'll have to stop now before I get another hot flush

Matthew Cutler was lovely and so was Ian Waite. They were always so nice to all of their partners, even then duffers. I think of the current pro's, Pasha is lovely and the one who can imagine is really nice with his celebs, regardless of ability. Karen is like this as well, she clearly adored Jeremy and vice versa.

Couldn't stand dvo especially after she ditched lovely curly haired Lee mead.

Their divorce came through today MrsJ. I hope he finds himself someone lovely his own age.

Well I do admit I don't like the Charleston at all. All those twirling limbs & gurning.

Add to that an Egyptian theme, wtf? 1920s at the very least.

Add to that JJ.

Add also that fecking irritating song.

Then, DVO.

Pure horror. I have just, in the interest of fairness looked it up & couldn't get past 30 seconds.

Still like you mind Sparkling

mornington I remember that and just googled it - it was Laila Roussa dancing a rumba (YouTube it). She had her ankle strapped up and then stopped in years towards the end so Anton picked her up and just spun her around until the song ended. Not a big Anton fan but it was very sweet of him

I just had a look at that Laila Rouass dance, that was rather sweet. Unusual to have fringing on a rumba dress, isn't it? That was the year that I didn't watch Strictly, I can't remember why now.

I didn't like DVO's Charleston all that much, it was technically really good but somehow mechanical, no joy.

Laila Ruass was the one Anton apparently made racist remarks about isn't she?

glittery yes but dont know whether that was before or after this dance (or even if it matters!)

I know it's old but I still LOVE

It still feels 'wow' for me.

Hmmm... That did nothing for me at all. Ive ever seen it before.

I was skipping through videos on you tube and came across Darcey doing the American Smooth with, I think, Ian. She is so damn flexible!!

I've just been looking back at some of the past Argentine Tangos (because I love a good AT), and I don't think the choreography of the ATs is as good as it has been in the past. I wonder if they don't have a specialist advisor this year. Some of the past ones were smoking hot, this year's just seemed like slightly spikier, prissy tangos, not sleazy pimps and cynical hookers trying to maim and dominate each other through dance (which is what I think it should be).

From the BBC Strictly site:
Anita & Gleb will dance the Foxtrot to Frank Sinatra’s ‘New York, New York’ as well as perform a Salsa to ‘Feel This Moment’ by Pitbull feat. Christina Aguilera.
Georgia & Giovanni will dance a Viennese Waltz to ‘Runaway’ by The Corrs plus they will dance an Argentine Tango to ‘Tanguera’ by Sexeto Mayor.
Jay & Aliona are going to Charleston to ‘Doctor Jazz’ from musical Jelly’s Last Jam and perform a Viennese Waltz to Bryan Adams’ ‘Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman’?
Katie & Anton are dancing the Waltz to ‘O Mio Babbino Caro’ by Puccini as well as dance the Charleston to ‘Too Darn Hot’ from the musical Kiss Me Kate.
Kellie & Kevin are performing the American Smooth to ‘Let’s Face The Music And Dance’ by Irving Berlin plus they will perform a Rumba to ‘Songbird’ by Eva Cassidy.

I have been looking at the men who earlier wore tight stretch fabric tops and trousers. The abs could be seen, the chest muscles, the hips/bum and even the thighs when the tops were tucked into their trousers.
This recent trend of having long, loose open shirts and baggy trousers hides everything that should be seen and takes the wow out of dancer's movements.

Oh dear. Worried for Anita and her Salsa, Jay and Katie's Charleston too.

Oh no. Missed IT2.

Why weren't Georgia and Giovanni on ITT? Zoe didn't say, just that they were breaking with tradition and having a semi-finalist instead.

Georgia and Giovanni train in Manchester and tend to be on ITT later in the week.

I am predicting Jay & Aliona's VW will be the first 40 of the series.

I dunno about 40 for the VW. He's a lovely lyrical mover but dancing in hold is not his strong point. Just been rewatching a bunch of Harry Judd's dances - now there was a man who knew how to dance ballroom.

If K&K are doing a Fred and Ginger dance, let's hope this is the show where Wardrobe finally give her something bearable to wear.

Ooh, news!. Since today's ITT G&G have switched their AT for a Cha Cha! That's very late in the day (although they could be switching dances midweek like J&A). No hint as to why, the most boring assumption would be that Giovanni could have crocked his arm and been unable to do lifts.

So funny on ITT ,Ian W had also noticed candelabra man!! I liked him standing for karen, but the 'panel' were a bit meh.

Ian is great but I didn't catch who the others were on that panel. Seems a shame that we're not going to see Joe varney do an AT, I think it would have been more impressive than a cha cha which they seem to do in the early episodes of the series.

Are they allowed to change dances like that? It's never been explicitly stated, but I always assumed that if a celeb danced all the way to final then they would have danced every dance once. If you can just skip out dances then why would anyone ever dance a rumba, that's usually the dance of death?

I think you can skip one dance. So Jay & Aliona and Katie & Anton have both avoided samba, G&G obviously now will avoid AT, not sure about the other couples.