Dancing With The Stars Carrie Ann Inaba’s New Blog Jammed Packed
Don’t miss reading Dancing With The Stars Carrie Ann Inaba’s new blog. It’s jammed packed this week with her thoughts on the dances for “Most Memorable Year”, the best choreographed dance, and the under-rated. She also makes an announcement on the new man of her life Robb Derringer. Lots more at Access Hollywood. Below is a take…
Week 3 and so much to talk about. Most Memorable year is always such a beautiful night at Dancing With the Stars and last night was no exception. Tears flowed and there were stories of inspiration, heartache, redemption and triumphant victories. It was a night that reminded us all of our own humanity. By sharing their life stories, this season’s contestants displayed large amounts of courage and vulnerability which is always such an honor to bear witness to. It is however, a bit more challenging to judge this night than others because of all the emotions, but I do believe that part of what this night is about is story telling and healing and last night I saw a lot of healing. I love this night especially because the contestants really use the dance not just as entertainment, but also as art and storytelling. They share their story, relive their life’s most poignant moments, and use dance to turn pain, or tragedy into art. This is the what dance can be at its finest. It’s a special night and one that I love being a part of. (…Even if Len Goodman yells at me — but we will get to that later.)
One of my all time favorite dances in the history of DWTS was a dance performed by Amy Purdy on the Most Memorable year night on Season 18. She danced one of the most compelling and inspiring Contemporary performances to “Human,” by Christina Perri, which told her own personal story through dance. I still can recall the ending where she was walking on air… and I still get goosebumps just thinking about it. It still inspires me. When I have a rough day, I will think of Amy Purdy and that performance and her incredible perseverance. But Amy Purdy is not the only contestant in our history who has deeply inspired me. Noah Galloway, J.R. Martinez, Heather Mills, Marlee Matlin, Chaz Bono, Jack Osbourne, and of course Nyle DiMarco, last night’s highest scoring performer, all inspire me to be a better person by living so beautifully and courageously. This is yet another gift of DWTS.
I think there’s a lot of thoughtful analysis put into this week’s blog, and I actually agree with a lot of CAI’s assessments. I think she is fairly spot-on about Von with regards to not fully realizing himself on the dance floor yet. I think she was inaccurate to say it was a question of effort, but rather I wonder if it’s something Witney needs to work on with him.
I also think Ginger has the same problem, and Val is to blame for this – I don’t think either of them know how to bring things to the surface for their partners to create true emotion or vulnerability or power or whatever the dance requires and realizing their full potential. THIS even more than choreography is what I felt Derek was best at.
She also mentions how Kim is underrated and I agree, but I think she’s also right in that Sasha and she need to do more to stand out. Their partnership is so great, but they haven’t placed themselves as many people’s favorites yet.
Anyone else notice how many times she said people need to up their game?
I noticed that too. She’s noticing the same lack in choreo we are.
I think the judges have now decided they’re not necessarily going to take TPTB’s bs and score/pick on what THEY feel the couples need to improve on. While CAI does get on my nerves every now and then, and this does scare me to say, I think she’s the reasonable judge this season (inserts shudder here).
I thought her comment about Ginger miming is very accurate – and I would even go so far as to say that Val seemed to be miming along with her.
Last night was very lackluster for me. I got more entertainment eating my chips lol
This was the best blog I’ve ever read from her! She had some really good constructive ideas for everyone. I’m so surprised.
@Rachel – I 100% agree.
If only she had the time to say most of these things while talking to the couples after their dance. Then again, even when she does have the time, she’s usually too busy falling off her chair or saying some rather dumb stuff…