Janel Parrish Writes Of Her “Most Memorable Year” Dance And More On Dancing With The Stars
Janel Parrish has written her new weekly blog at People. Below is take about her and Val’s new dance. The rumba is all about love and they are hoping to bring that to their routine.
This week, we are doing the rumba. The rumba is completely different from jazz. I had to erase everything I learned last week and start over with a new set of rules. That’s always the challenging part when you start a new dance – trying to forget the muscle memory your body has created during the last dance that you did.
I’ve taken a few dance classes in my life but never anything that prepared me for ballroom. Ballroom is so different from anything I’ve ever done, so anything I’ve ever learned in any dance class gets kind of thrown out the window when you start doing the rumba.
Val’s just an amazing coach and he pushes me to give all that I can possibly give by the end of the day. Every day when I go home, I feel like I get a little bit better.
This week is “Most Memorable Year.” The most memorable year for me is the year I moved to L.A. – it was the most challenging, scary but amazing year of my life! For me, the theme of that year was love. The rumba is a dance of love, so we’re going to bring all of that to the routine.
We’ll be dancing to Sam Smith’s cover of the Whitney Houston hit “How Will I Know.” It’s a really, really beautiful dance, so I think it’s going to look amazing. The dance is going to be slow, sensual, beautiful, romantic, passionate. It’s going to be completely different from anything we’ve brought to the dance floor so far.
You can read more at People.
Uh oh. Isn’t that the same “Most Memorable Year Moving to LA” concept that got Kristin Cavilieri eliminated?
I doubt you can lay it completely on that Sandy. I think most of us knew from Day 1 that she wasn’t going the distance. Unless I have her confused with someone else. Which should tell you something. 🙂
The dance was great, the story was touching. I am glad they didn’t make the rumba as raunchy as it could have been. I think Val toned it way down in that department but the content was great. It had more content than Bethany and Derek’s. Interesting to note that every week since week 1 Janel and Bethany have had the same dance styles. I wonder if that is intentional on the part of TPTB. Anyway, not counting this week’s switchup which will have them with totally different partners, let’s see if that trend continues. I think the two pairings are pretty comparable so we will see how this goes.