DWTS Laurie Hernandez Writes Of The Group Dance, Learning The Quickstep, And More
Laurie Hernandez has written a new blog at US Weekly. She writes of how excited she is do a Group dance this week. However, they haven’t had a lot of time to rehearse it yet. She also previews her and Vals new dance. Here is more….
I’m feeling good and I’m excited for this week because we have a group dance on top of our own dance, so that’ll be fun – and stressful — at the same time. We haven’t really figured out how we’ll rehearse the group number since we’ll continue to travel with my tour, but we had our first group rehearsal right after the show on Monday night. Our group is me, Jana, Terra and Marilu. We’re “Team Future” — next week’s theme is “Eras” so it’s all about different periods of time. Jana’s always traveling, I’m traveling so it’ll be interesting to see how this all comes together.
It’s cool to dance as a group because everyone’s different. It’s weird to see how creative everyone can be from different views and perspectives instead of just Val’s. It’s a great thing to have so many good ideas, but at the same time there’s so many cooks in the kitchen! The first hour of us trying to figure out the dance was literally just the male pros talking! And all of us girls just hung out, stressing out. We were like, “Why can’t we just start something?!” But it’s all going to work out in the end … I hope!
We’re doing a 1960s-themed quickstep this week for our solo dance. Sometimes rehearsal is frustrating because I wish I could get the steps down a little faster even though everyone’s telling me I get the steps down faster than anyone else. it’s kind of weird to hear that but at the same time, the steps aren’t easy!
Coming into Dancing With the Stars, I thought it would be a lot easier. I didn’t think it would be just a breeze, I knew it would be difficult, but I wasn’t expecting it to be this hard. It’s really hard to stay patient with myself and realize this is a whole different world than gymnastics.
To read Laurie’s full blog, see US Weekly.
“It’s weird to see how creative everyone can be from different views and perspectives instead of just Val’s” well, that says a lot 😉 hope their team dance goes well though.
Fuuny, that is the comment I zeroed in on as well. Good for Laurie to see other perspectives instead of just Val’s!
Yes, that comment says a lot doesn’t it? For her sake, for the experience of doing the show, I wish she would have had a different pro. Whether she wins or not, I think this could have been so different for her.
She writes like a little girl just trying to do the best she can. I think she does best in characters like Duck Tales, or the girl from the Michael Jackson video. I hope she gets to play at characters more instead of trying to match sexy with the sexy pros, that is just too intimidating for a 16 year old. When she is in her comfort zone, this girl is unstoppable.
I wish Laurie had been partnered with Sasha this season. The two of them could have brought so much joy together when dancing, and Sasha could have really showed off all her acrobatic moves. With Val, Laurie’s personality isn’t showing as much as it could have, and it almost feels like Laurie isn’t having as much fun as she thought she would.
I agree with you, Alison. Sasha and Laurie would have been FUN!
But, just to play devil’s advocate here…if Val included lots of acrobatic moves, flips, and somersaults (too lazy to check the spelling lol) and what not…then wouldn’t some people and prob. including me get frustrated at that a bit as well?
This could be her week to show off her gymnastic skills in the group dance. Derek indicated that the dance starts off in lock step and then the dancers break free of constraints. What better way to break free than by gymnastics? And she wouldn’t be alone. Derek and Sasha could be flipping right beside her.
Well, EmnEm, the people who bitched when Derek did it in one or two dances (and who were Val fans) will probably love it this time. 🙂 If Val can incorporate it as beautifully as Derek did in the Quickstep and Mambo, then I think it will be Laurie well utilized. But can he incorporate it?