Pro Henry Byalikov Helps Assess The Dancing With The Stars Semi-Finals and More!!
Afterbuzz TV interviewed Henry Byalikov after this past week’s dances. He helps to break down the dances and the strange, non-traditional concepts that were used. He also runs through what happened Sunday when Tony got hurt and how he almost had to fill in for him. Great interview!!!
He is sweet, I like him. I was surprise when he said hat he was ask to be a pro once, so now i’m even more sure that he will be a pro next season.
I found it interesting when he said that helped some pros with choreo this season, wonder who and when.
I wanna see him dancing ballet so bad, I love ballet and tried to find videos of him dancing on youtube, but I couldn’t find any, maybe next season he could do a pro ballet dance in the results show.
Can Suri Serano be any more stuck to the hip of Shawn and Derek? She’s sickening. According to her they are the only couple that makes absolutely NO mistakes. EVER.
Hmmm…trying to remember a Derek/Shawn mistake…can’t actually think of one off the top of my head…
Laila, I heard that Henry helped Derek with the opening with the red lights – more the Knight Rider thing than actual choreography. I also heard that he got that from me, in a round about way. No idea if that’s true or not. Derek was struggling so hard with the Knight Rider aspect and I did tweet an idea pretty damn close to what they did, so maybe.
PH – that is cool. when henry told Derek’s original idea for the Bhangra I thought about what you posted the other day, very similar ideias, about the all misson thing. But in the end it all work out for the better, with no gimmicks they showed once again they are by far the best dancer, I don;t anyone in the cast being able to pull of that routine aside of the.
By the way that he said, I think Henry also did help some pros with actual choreo, that trio paso did not look like Tony’s work at all, but since he was in the trio I don’t see any problem with him doing the choreo.
Suri is just been realistic about things, she is actually good friends with Tony, but still has Derek and Shawn as favorites because she knows that it is obvious that Shawn and Derek are the best.
After watching the video, I think complaining about Suri being all over Derek and Shawn is pretty…well, blinded by your own biases, since the other woman was all about either Melissa or Val. Henry seemed pretty split between Melissa and Shawn.
Didn’t Shawn forget her solo in one of her dances? Only obvious mistake that I can think of this season.
I did hear Henry was pretty vital to the trio choreography, and maybe that’s why it was so much better than stuff Tony normally does. Even with his improvements over previous seasons I find his routines still unbalanced or awkward in their transitions at times – like the overly tricked out AT – and the paso was the most solidly choreographed of the season for them.
But you only know it was a mistake because she owned up to it – so it wasn’t really obvious. Otherwise, it could only be called “not up to her standard” and not a true mistake. She didn’t fall apart, that’s for sure. What was funny was their confessional when she said she forgot a part and Derek was asking her if she did such and such part and I think she said yes every time, so I’m not sure what part she could have missed.
Figamentation – I agree, I know he improved, but I still find his routines bland and forgettable , the only one that I actually remember is the AT because it was only four days ago and had 10 lifts. His routines are not worthy of a MBT at all.
Plus he’s had two seasons now with Melissa and he hasn’t been able to fix those damn legs of hers. She’s a very good dancer that could be great if he worked on that some more. I’d be very curious to see what another pro could do with her, even though I do think the two of them work well together I think she’s got a good enough personality to work well with any pro. Again I think her best legs were in her Paso. I have high hopes for Henry.
This is why I cannot get behind Melissa as improved that even Kristi Y. Said on access Hollywood. They are an old partnership but she still dances too soft and legs still stiff in Latin. He relies on her lovely lines for ballroom. While Kelly and Shawn improved IMO from their seasons.
I think their AT was well received because the lifts did look cool, even if not clea, but also the song. They got gifted a fantastic song. Sometimes that makes a huge difference. At least eventually the one host seemed to acknowledge the role the songs played.
Saying it now how awful that caveman hustle was and lol at how they were trying to be polite about that dance.
Did Henry say Shawn is doing Tango/Paso fusion? What did he say?
I thought that the one girl saw Kelly from a completely different perspective than me…I have hated that over the top showmance and was not at all impressed with the speedo routine…in fact it kind of made me want to hurl. Just goes to show that different people see things differently.
Suri was a gymnast, so its natural for her to be proud/attached to shawn + she absolutely loves derek
I’ve watched afterbuzz everyweek and in the beginning they didnt care for kelly at all. Now they say she’s really won them over, and they absolutely love her and val together. so its funny indeed how opinions can change
I don’t like the showmance between Kelly and Val. There’s no need for that and I feel they’re doing that to garner votes. I also think Melissa’s legs are too soft! Shawn’s AT was MUCH better than Melissa’s last week
I love me some Henry though. Hope they make him a pro seeing as how Derek is done after this 🙁
I love me some Henry. I second, third, fourth, fifth the opinion on making him a pro.
@KellyK The “thing” between Kelly and Val has not only turned me off them it is really starting to bother me. She says she has trust issues. As a woman myself that was cheated on (not talking for every woman that has been cheated on) and has trust issues her doing whatever she is doing with Val with her boyfriend in the audience kind of bothers me. I mean I know it is for show but at the same time, isn’t it the same thing?
And the thing about the Shawn mistakes is that even though Shawn thinks she made them she didn;t really because she basically remebered her routine she just fudged it a bit.
Yeah, lots of people get sucked in by phony showmances. And the younger you are, the more likely it is to happen.
lol…i thought that too, but then that reminds me of that twilight special when they were saying a big chunk of buyers were house moms and middle-aged women. So who knows what the correlation is. judging by twitter i’ve seen them both that are way too invested in the showmance
Perhaps married too young or too long?? I’ve noticed that too. Maybe I should have made a (very bad) comment about *emotional* maturity. 😀
Finally got the time to watch this. I’ve got my fingers crossed they’ll give Henry a shot as a pro next season and with someone half-decent. That way I’ll get a chance to see if he’s really all I think he is. He’s made a great first impression on me. Now I want to see how he handles the pressure of teaching a non-dancer for hours a day, week after week with a camera recording every minute.