DWTS Janel Parrish Writes Of Her New Dances With Val Chmerkovskiy And More
Janel Parrish has written a new blog at People. She writes of how bummed she was when she and Val got negative criticism from the judges last week. She also writes of their new dances this week….
It feels like we’ve been getting a mixed bag of comments from the judges recently. It’s totally fine and everyone’s entitled to their opinion, but the thing that bummed us out the most was the comment about it not being a true Viennese waltz. It was a Halloween special – so obviously we did have a little bit of the Halloween feel to add to the entertainment part of the dance – but I felt like Val did an amazing job of creating amazing Viennese waltz choreography to add to the story. I was a little bit bummed for him that we got that comment.
It was challenging enough having to learn two dances last week, but this week we’ve had to learn four dances! Three of the dances are for the dance-off, so we all have to learn the cha-cha, the rumba and a jive, and then the style is picked for us when we get to the show on Monday night. We’ve been preparing and polishing three dances not knowing which one is going to be chosen, and then the fourth dance is our competition piece. It feels like there’s never any time for one dance, let alone four, but we’ll get it.
This week we’re doing a contemporary dance for our competition piece. I feel a lot more comfortable in contemporary because I don’t have to work on my frame, which is my biggest weakness, but Val isn’t a contemporary dancer so he’s been stressing about the choreography. However, I think the choreography he’s created is beautiful.
It’s dynamic duo week and we’re playing Romeo and Juliet, so it’s going to be beautiful and romantic. I’m very excited. The song is “Everybody’s Free (To Feel Good),” and it’s a song from the movie adaptation Romeo + Juliet.
More at People.
My only comment is ugh
I dont want to see them all over each other and pretend it’s dancing
And how many time did janel had dances that doesn’t required frame or proper footwork
I think it’s her third she is really lucky
+1 Mariam!! I agree.
I’m admittedly not a Janel fan but I TRY and give her the benefit of the doubt each week and don’t just write her off immediately but every blog post it seems like she’s trying to get us to feel sorry for her and Val for some reason or another. “They changed our song!” “Everyone is talking about our relationship, focus on the dancing!” “We have to learn 4 dances” “I had to rehearse on my birthday!”, etc, etc. The ONE thing I’ll SLIGHTLY agree with her on is the mixed comments from the judges. Most of the time I can’t tell if they like the dance/her or not and they won’t give a lot of critique but then she’ll end up with 8s when I thought they would give her a 9. Not saying she’s the only person this is happening to though.
I have NO idea how their routine will play tonight. Val has been trying everything possible to refute any romance claims the last two weeks but Janel doesn’t always seem to get the memo. With Romeo and Juliet they have to walk a fine line as most of the audience is already annoyed with the showmance angle. Her fans will love it of course but what about everyone else?
I am a fan of Val and Janel. In my opinion they are two people who genuinely like each other and enjoy dancing together. I don’t see a romantic connection but are truly just good friends. I think because they both have very flirtatious and funny personalities they come across wrong at times. I’m looking forward to seeing their contemporary tonight because Val is an amazing choreographer but he’s not a contemporary choreographer. I’m sure they will nail it.
I’ve always thought val was a great dancer,but for some reason their dances aren’t leaving much ofan impact on me. IIf I it’s like after they dance….I seem to forget about them…..
I agree with Mariam.
I think she’s very “lucky” to get 3 dances that aren’t ballroom dances. The judges tend to be more generous with scores when it comes to non-ballroom dances, they tend to disregard the technique and just judge the performance, and she’s a performer, they have an emotional song this week, Romeo and Juliet, so I predict good scores for her regardless of her technique.
I think there might be something going on with them, she definitely seems interested… It’s normal for people to develop connections considering how much time they spend together and all the emotions they have to explore on this show, but considering that she had a bf in the beggining and the poor guy was always there supporting her, her actions make me question her character. I think Val saw how much the romance was overshadowing the dancing and drawing negative attention towards them, and he wants to stay in the competition, so he’ll just say whatever he needs to say to shift people’s focus back to the dancing (which is not impressive IMO).I love Val, love his dancing, love his teaching, but I can’t relate to her at all.
It’s week 8 already and she still makes a lot of mistakes that people usually make on week 1, week 2, week 3… But she has a lot of fans, so does he. And Maks’ fans will vote for them… They could get to the final… I’m curious to see the dance-off, because depending on who she goes up against, I don’t think she’ll do too well…
just one comment: no hold.
It doesn’t matter how many fans you have if everyone else has more. Just sayin’.
Agreed. That’s what I’m hoping for… My top 4, in no particular order, the 4 I’d love to see in the finals are Sadie, Alfonso, Bethany and Tommy Chong. I think Tommy is the heart of the show, 76 years old doing what he’s doing, he definitely inspires me!
Maina #6, I totally respect and agree with your opinion. I hope that she goes up against Alfonso, Beth, or Sadie in the dance-off – that would be very interesting. One small, grammar-Nazi type thing, though: beginning has two “n”s and one “g”.
Aviva, lay off the grammar stuff. We have lots of international folks AND it could actually be a typo, as opposed to poor grammar.
Romeo & Juliet is considered one of Shakespeare’s tragedies. Why everyone thinks the story is so “romantic” is beyond me.
This is a super minor thing, but I was kind of hoping that this contemporary would have ended with both of them dying.
So much for that happening.
I agree Tony. Them dying at the end would have completed the story line better.
@paula I agree. Val is an amazing choreographer. He does what he does well. I believe that his friendship with Janel is sincere and nothing more than that. Yes he may participate in a “showmance” now and then but look at his season with Kelly M. I think that was more of a “showmance” than with Janel. His contemporary dance was one of the best I have seen on DWTS since they brought that style in. I think it was a beautiful dance. I actually liked it better than Sadie’s.