DWTS Season 11 – PRO WATCH, August 23, 2010
Well, this is very, very surprising and I’m kinda disappointed.
From Lacey Schwimmer and Dmitry Chaplin – they’re out for the season.
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i could care less about Dmitry but i’m sad for Lacey. today is really the day, Jonathan just tweet too.
I really missed Dmitry last season. I can’t believe they’re passing up on him again
He’s so talented and a sweetheart. I guess this show is just about drama and ratings now.
I just saw Jonathan tweet that he won’t be on either. As much as I like Lacey, I am not all suprised. I expected that she wouldn’t be back. I was shocked in regards to Dmitry. Though I am not a fan of his (I think he is too quiet and a little on the boring side) I thought it was sure thing he would be back since the show loves him and that he almost had partner last season.
I don’t mind that Dmitry is out, but Lacey was a surprise.
Lacey was bad with Mark, but she did good with her other partners. Can’t say the same about Dmitry.
Just saw that Jonathan was out too.
It’s always been about drama and ratings – since the very beginning. I’m afraid that Dmitry was just too quiet.
I doubt they passed up on him just because he’s too quiet. There must have been other reasons. Keep in mind they decide what airs in packages. Lacey is hardly anything but quiet, yet she’s out too. I still don’t understand it.
Well, Lacey – who knows? But she did have a tendency to make snarky comments to the press about casting and “fairness”. I suppose it’s possible that they just didn’t find partners for them.
Aaaw, well I like Dmitry. I’m really disappointed that he doesn’t have a partner this season. I thought he’d be on this time too, especially since it seemed like he was on every results night last season.
I’m going to be really disappointed if they passed Dmitry up for Damian again. I wasn’t really a fan of his at all.
I’m really wondering who they are going to have on this season, unless they’re bringing in new people or having a really small cast of “stars.”
Well if we’re going off of snarky comments then most of the pros would be at fault of that at one point or another. Yes, they didn’t find partners for them, but the question still remains why? It’s an interesting conversion. I wish they were more fair about their casting, but that’s television.
I also agree about Damian. I did not feel he brought anything new to the cast.
Well, not most of the pros. Really Maks, Louis and Tony from the men and Lacey from the women. At least recently. Everyone else does pretty well when speaking to the press. I don’t know if that’s a reason – I only know it would be a reason for ME.
Right, I would see how that would a problem, but seeing as they’ve kept Maks, Louis, and Tony I don’t think that’s an issue.
I am sad about Dmitry and love him! I guess they love the camera hogging pros i.e. Maks, Derek, Mark. Maybe the show will once return to its former glory when it was about teaching a celeb how to dance.
WTF!!!!!!! I cannot stand that Lacey is not cast AGAIN!!!! So disappointed!!!!
Lacey not being on is a disappointment. I did hear from a reliable source that in her first season that she never got along with the other pros on the show. Not sure if that played a role or not. Do they really care if they are buddy buddy? It is a competition after all.
I will miss some Lacey’s stretching the limits of the show. The more of that the merrier for me.
What I don’t get about Dmitry is why his choreography on DWTS is so much worse than what he’s done on SYTYCD. Maybe the rules? Maybe the stars lack of ability? It’s just unfortunate since he’s done some great choreography on SYTYCD, but not nearly as well on DWTS.
Lacey Schwimmer probably burned her bridges with DWTS.
Dmitry had Mya so not for a lack of talent. Comparing Nicole and Mya, huge difference in quality. The only dance Mya did that I liked better than Nicole’s was Mya’s 70s samba. Dmitry struck gold with that dance. I am not bummed or shocked that Dmitry, Jonathan and Lacey were already out last season.
You know it’s interesting. As a ballroom dancer Mya has exquisite technique. Samba is the most difficult and Mya just sailed through it. Mya with another partner would be my top pick for best ballroom/latin dancer of all time on the show.
Unfortunately Dmitry is the quiet pro, less talented in the choreography department than Derek by far, and he kind of sucks at Standard Ballroom dancing. His topline was terrible.
Imagine if Derek had Mya? Sometimes I think Dmitry was stunt casting, so Osmond could take that season.
John – I think in SYTYCD Dmitry knew that he could push certain limits… while with DWTS it’s suppose to be strictly ballroom… or some case of that.
So with SYTYCD it’s easier to push the routines further beyond the limits because SYTYCD is more dancing than DWTS.
I mean looking at some of the routines in SYTYCD… could they go on DWTS and not incur the wrath that is Len?
Ei yi yi, Lacey Schwimmer. It seems wherever she is there’s controversy. From the time she competed on SYTYCD there were heated arguments and fights between her and Lauren Gottlieb and fans lining up either for her or against her, and the Schwimmer parents were always involved in the pettiness of it all. Then there was the controversy around Julianne allegedly copying choreography from SYTYCD and Benji and Lacey trashing Julianne with their mother’s blessing. Then there was the controversy about her casting for dwts when she had little Standard background, and then the disaster between her and Louis Van Amstel, and then the complete mess she made with Mark Dacascos. Mark wrote a blog that didn’t dam her, but certainly didn’t love her either.
People get tired of the “Me” syndrome. When you’re a pro on the show you have to take a back seat to the celebrity. She never got that.
Lacey seems to be a difficult personality and not getting along with everyone behind the scenes.
Okay, Andie, the only part I hadn’t heard was the Louis Van Amstel part – what happened there? My memory is bad.
Lacey was a bad girl on Daily 10 last season too – all about her, and then saying some things you shouldn’t say if you want to be back on the show. Which is why I wonder about Louis – he was rather ugly about the whole Nicole thing. As if Niecy had a chance to win if Nicole wasn’t there. LOL.
Weird thing is, though, that Derek and Mark seem perfectly friendly with Lacey – but Derek (and maybe Mark too) seem totally like the “hey, no hard feelings” types of guys. Well, they are MEN.
Derek and Mya – I wonder what Mya would have been like with Derek. Out of her shell a bit more? I wonder not just about the choreography, but about the personality and interaction between the two.
Dmitry and Mya were fantastic together and Mya was way better than Nicole. Obviously you guys are Derek fans so no surprise there.
Oh, ,the skuttlebutt about Louis Van Amstel and Lacey?
Apparently Van Amstel had some desparaging remarks about her and mentioned something about her weight problems which got back to Lacey via Kelly Osbourne. In recalling that Kelly was struggling with weight issues, it could have been a misunderstanding, but Lacey got all Schwimmer and defensive. Prior to that, Kelly and Lacey were thick as thieves, but once she felt Van Amstel threw her under the bus she fell out with Kelly. Kelly had a birthday party with all the cast, but Lacey was either uninvited or she uninvited herself, summoning daddy Schwimmer to the CBS lot . What happened after that??? Of course all this drama is occurring as Mark Dacascos is trying to learn how to dance. Who knows, It’s all soooooo dramatic (((sigh)))).
@PrincessHeidi There’s no doubt in my mind that with Derek Mya would be the best dancer of the entire ten seasons. She just has it. She’s a natural at ballroom, particularly latin technique. She just wasn’t the salesman that Nicole is.
She needed her performance level to come up and it just wasn’t sustained with Dmitry. The Russians have precision but they cross train in other classical styles while guys like Derek have a whole arsenal of contemporary, broadway, hip hop in their bag of tricks, which comes from a more organic place and is just more naturally appealing. All you have to do is compare Foxtrots to know.
@Princess Heidi, Of course re: LVA there are those who believe that he knows just what buttons to push to upset a dancer, and some say he pulled the mean card on Lacey to undermine her and Mark’s chances on the show. Get her upset and not believing in herself as a teacher/choreographer and Team Osbourne wins.
LOL Rose – It never fails to crack me up that someone says, “So and so was the BEST DANCER EVER” and when we don’t agree they call US biased. I’m biased, yes – but that you can point fingers at me after saying Mya was “way better” is just ironic in the EXTREME.
Look in the mirror – you’re biased too. And I don’t agree that Mya was the best ever. I agree she could have been the best with a different pro. But since she wasn’t, she’s not – it’s all opinion, and that’s mine.
That doesn’t surprise me, Andie – I found Louis’s behavior to be very bad this past season. So what if it’s unfair they put Nicole on the show, that doesn’t mean you have to act like a petulant, angry ASS. Which is exactly what he was. Derek and Nicole perform an amazing dance and he barely claps and looks like he swallowed lemons – happened several times. Then he sounds pissed off and hateful when discussing Nicole to *the press* – unprofessional in the extreme. You know, Maks often annoys me, but when he makes his comments he never sounds angry and he often explains them in such a way as to make you go, “Oh. Okay” Still not crazy about it, but Maks seems to come from a feeling of frustration with the judges and he usually makes up for it. Louis was just a whiny beyotch most of last season. THAT Louis I can totally see throwing Lacey under the bus.
As for Mya – it’s easy to say that with Derek she would be the best of all seasons and that she just needed her performance level to come up – but being able to perform is part of it, and that makes Nicole her equal, IMO. That’s like saying that (hypothetically) Dmitry is a better dancer than Derek because he’s more precise, it’s just that people don’t see it because Derek is a better performer. Well, being the better performer makes Derek the better dancer even if Dmitry is a tiny bit more precise. Dance is supposed to be about emotion and performance is bringing the emotion into it. For the record, I don’t believe Dmitry is a better dancer.
I don’t think Dmitry has the “it” factor that Derek (and Maks) have.
Ofcourse we all have biases. I think Mya is a better dancer than Nicole and I do not think that Maks and Derek are innovative or the best dancers on the show. Their choreography is often predictable. Yes, they are great for tv because of their personalities. But as far as dancing and choreograpy I don’t feel they are the best. Derek tends to have a hard time with the really passionate dances. He’s great at the jive becauce that requires a lot of energy. I do not feel Maks is good at anything. Again, this is my opinion. I hope we can all agree to disagree without being offended.
Also I did not say that Derek was better than Dmitry or that Dmitry was better than Derek. I think all pros have their strengths and weaknesses. No one is perfect.
@Princess Heidi, re: Mya The thing is there’s no reason for her to not have her performance level high. Her technique is stellar, further advanced than Nicole, and since she bills herself as a dancer/choregrapher it should be.
Mya needed better choreography and a partner who could bring that performance out of her instead of doing choreography that nursed the injury. Mya had a ankle injury for five weeks of the competition, and that her at a disadvantage, but Dmitry’s choreography did nothing to tell us she was fine. That Swing dance they did for example was not a good use of the opportunity. Sweeping the floor for 12 bars was silly. Lifts and tricks can still be executed if they’re carefully constructed. But I think Dmitry was too timid to go there.
Derek was able to pull out the musical theatre aspect of Nicole and as a performer Nicole has no peer but I still think that for a Ballroom dance competition, Mya could pull off something at a very high level with Derek. She upped the ante big time when she did her JIve infront of Baz Laurhman and she made every moment count.
Sorry for all the posts. I hope you can remove two of three that say the same thing!
Andie – the site is cached, so wait for a few moments for your post to show up. I noticed that you had three posts that said the same thing so I deleted two of them. Check and make sure I deleted the right one.
No offense taken at all Rose – I’m a snarky beyotch so what sounds like offense is just my twisted sense of humor.
Haha okay. I’m glad you have a sense of humor
Thanks @Princess Heidi for cleaning up my treble post.
Hope that smart so and so karina isn’t on there again this season. She makes me sick. All of her pouting and all. I hope and pray Julienne comes back