DWTS Season 9 – Tribute to Patrick Swayze
I rather suspected they might do this tribute and I hoped for it! Now it appears to be reality. According to People:
Swayze, who died of pancreatic cancer on Monday at the age of 57, made a guest appearance on Dancing’s inaugural U.S. season in 2005, teaching friend and fellow actor John O’Hurley a few dance moves in rehearsal. He also came to the show and supported O’Hurley by attending the season 1 finale.
“He was one of the few people to integrate dance with being an A-list actor,” Green says. “He inspired many people and many of our pros to dance. We want to honor the great moments he’s brought to film by getting our dancers to do their interpretation to some music from his films.”
It also crossed my mind, when seeing all the male Pros coming out of rehearsal together, that perhaps they were also doing a Michael Jackson Tribute. I would LOVE to see both tributes. Who will play Johnny Castle? You KNOW my pic, what’s yours? 🙂
i’m really hoping that they do a MJ pro dance ,i think most of the pros can moonwalk (maks,mark and derek i’m sure that they can do),acording to Louis facebook he is the one in charge for the choreography of the pro dance.
The first pro dance? Eh, I like Derek and Maks choreo better.
Yes heidi, the first pro dance.
This isn’t the first time they’ve done a tribute to him. Tony and Cheryl did a tribute dance to Dirty Dancing in Season 6.
Yea for Louis choreographing!
I’m hoping they don’t do a Michael Jackson tribute dance. I’m so sick of hearing about him…. there are so many other great movie dances that they should do, dancing in the Rain or any Gene Kelly dance sequence, Valentino’s tango scene, etc….
You mean “Singing in the Rain”? I only want a MJ tribute because I know how good Derek and Mark are at dancing like MJ. Don’t know about the other guys. In general, I’d rather see unique pro dances, but I do like the idea of a Patrick tribute. The others mentioned – well you run a risk when ever you do a tribute. See the team dance that incorporated Beyonce last season. Just. No.
Maks is good with mj too, in his freestyle with laila (it was a MJ song) he did some mj moves and they were good, but that freestyle was just bad, and maks loves mj ,he said on twitter that he cried when he found that mj was dead.
Thanks Heidi, been reading so much dance stuff right now… brain is slightly fried 🙂
Yes but the tributes I mentioned, they all contributed to the evolution of dance and ballroom… Beyonce? no so much.
I love the idea of the Dirty dancing tribute…but I honestly want to hear the actually music from the movie and not the band playing/singing…it would kind of ruin it for me. Well that is if they use time of my life. As for the MJ tribute I dont want to see it on DWTS I want to see it on SYTYCD. Though no show can top the VMAs.
Totally with you on the music – definitely use the soundtrack and NOT the band. The potential for ruination is too high. I agree with you on the VMAs – that was awesome – but I’ve never gotten into SYTYCD. Which might explain why I don’t really see the appeal of Lacey or Chelsie – I like them both just fine, but they are not, IMO, the best two female pros on the show. Chelsie is better than Lacey, but I have to give best female (excluding Julianne) to Cheryl, I think. Although I love Kym too.
Yes, please use the soundtrack version and not the band! It would ruin it for me as well.
And right after MJ died SYTYCD tried to do a tribute and Nigel (the exec producer) said that they couldn’t get permission to use the music. I wonder if ABC will be able to?
I heard that the VMA’s used some faces familiar to SYTYCD as well.
Patrick Swayze was one of my favorite actors. i always watch his last television series which is The Beast.
Patrick Swayze is an award winning actor and i admire him a lot. his fans would surely miss him.
Patrick Swayze is one of the best actors in Hollywood and we are going to miss him.