Carrie Ann Inaba Writes About Her Three Favorite Dances On DWTS Week 4, Has Some Advice
Carrie Ann Inaba has written about her three favorite dances this week on Dancing With The Stars: Witney & Alfonso, Mark & Sadie, and Lea and Artem.
Carrie Anne also gives some advice to Jonathan and Antonio. Below is take on it….
1. To Jonathan Bennett—I want to see technique. I don’t want you to throw your movements away. It’s not just getting through the movements. It’s also about performing with accuracy. Whatever dance you have next week and I, like Julianne Hough, hope it is a ballroom dance. I want to see your form! I want to see the proper posture. The proper hold, I want you to really go for the right weight placement on your feet and I want you to study the style before you try and wow us with choreography. It will help with your performance to get the technique down first. You can do it!! I know it. We all see your potential.
2. To Antonio Sabato Jr.—you need to open your chest more and pay attention to your arms. Let them move and use the space. You need to command your space, like when you walk a runway. You need to move the space around you with your energy. Don’t stop your movements short. Open yourself up. Breathe into the movements so they can become the fullest movements and not stifled and small.
I agree with her advice, do you? I also really want to see these two just really let go with no worries what so ever.
Lots more at Parade including her thoughts on Michael and Emma and some fashion credits. I loved this dress. Beautiful!
Now WHY is she not like this on the show. Underneath all of her foibles lies a really good judge. She needs to get her act together. Also if I had a piece of advice and that goes to all 4 judges is Do not be afraid to use the lower half of the paddles. Giving a 7 to a dance worth a 4 is not helping anyone giving a 2/3 is NOT a bad thing. In fact you give the celebs 7/8 points to grow rather than 2/3. The public want to see progression and do not want to see 9&10 in WEEK 3. A 9/10 or even an 8 should be looked forward to be given out about week 5/6. Also do not expect greatness too soon you will only be disappointed allow the celebs and choreographers to find their stride and not to be given a push start with an ego massaging week 1 9 score. In the long run it just does not work. Get back to how DWTS used to be a no nosence DANCE show I remember Kelly getting 13 in a Waltz to getting 30 in a freestyle. This is what you need. Also a little bit of dance education won’t go amiss either people (especially new viewers) need to be told what is required in each dance and what each point means and to not assume the people at home understand all the time as viewers to forget.
@Nathan – I agree with your post especially about “Get back to how DWTS used to be a no nosence DANCE show I remember.” I think the show started its downhill in that aspect with the All Star Season (theme weeks bordering on the weird, non ballroom dances, non ballroom pros, band switch, etc) The golden years of DWTS has been S 1-10..those were the good old days
I agree with her comments to Jonathan except shouldn’t those comments be directed to Allison? She is the teacher to an untrained dancer. She should be teaching technique first and foremost. Is Jonathannotadancer suppose to be telling Allisonamazingdancer “Let’s work on technique?”