DWTS16 Mark Ballas And Aly Raisman To Dance About Ups And Downs Of Her Olympic Experience
Mark Ballas writes all about he and Aly Raisman’s new dance in his new blog for USA Today. He seems really excited about this dance. Here is more….
I’m really excited about our dance and song this week. The theme is “best year of your life” and for Aly, of course, that would be the Olympics. I’m looking forward to translating all the hours of hard work. For instance, all of the ups, the downs, the frustration, the joys, the focus and drive it took for her to win the gold medal into movement this week.
The song we have is a beautiful rendition of a song she would listen to during warm-ups at the Olympics. It’s going to be a change of pace for Aly this week since she hasn’t had to tap into such a deep character yet. And she is coping very well! I’m excited for you all to see this piece as I think it is very moving and heartfelt.
More at USA Today.
AHH SO EXCITED, CAN’T WAIT TO SEE THE DANCE. LOVE WHEN MARK DOES CONTEMPORARY!
I can really feel how excited Mark is about this dance, I just hope Aly can “capture” some of that excitement and really convey she wants to be a contender in this competition. So far, I get the feeling she really hasn’t “invested” herself in the competition like you can see with Kellie, Zendaya, and Andy. Even Jacoby doesn’t seem to me that he is Driven to win like Karina comes off, and Mark with Aly. I really think that if this is her “breakout dance” and she can convey the attitude “I want to go all the way” along with a great dance, I think she will have peaked at the right time.
Blonde, I think they are driven to win, it’s just that in their sports they constantly have their game face on. If they were SOOOOO driven, like Gilles was last season, it would be a major turn off. We get to see what the producers want us to see. The pros see e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g ! lol