DWTS Season 23 Finalists Dance And Celebrate On The View
Not only were the Dancing With The Stars finalists on Good Morning America today, they were also on The View. Thanks to @Idolxfactor1 for recording.
Not only were the Dancing With The Stars finalists on Good Morning America today, they were also on The View. Thanks to @Idolxfactor1 for recording.
"Dance is the hidden language of the soul" ~ Martha Graham. That's what DWTS makes me think of every Monday night. To read more about me and my other interests, see Lisa Kay Photography. You can also follow me at Voguerista Twitter & Voguerista Soundcloud.
What a party on Good Morning America today with the Dancing With The Stars Season 23 Finalists And Pros! Don’t miss watching all the dancing and fun interviews below. Thanks to @Idolxfactor1 for all of his recordings and help with this post.
Are You Ready To Party?….The Final Four Just Arrived At #GMA #DWTS Season 23 After Party Starting Soon…. pic.twitter.com/t1U7iWAnes
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Season 23 #DWTS After Party Starts Now #RT pic.twitter.com/WasRKupNe8
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The Troupe Doing Their Thang @Dance10Alan @Dance10Brittany @keodancer @BrittBStewart #DWTS 23 After Party #GMA pic.twitter.com/gLFpatb6ff
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Closing Segment #GMA #DWTS 23 After Party….That's All I Got Gang! pic.twitter.com/adiP7fkZrW
— Al Kahn (@idolxfactor1) November 23, 2016
"Dance is the hidden language of the soul" ~ Martha Graham. That's what DWTS makes me think of every Monday night. To read more about me and my other interests, see Lisa Kay Photography. You can also follow me at Voguerista Twitter & Voguerista Soundcloud.
My oh my! Where do we start today? First, I just want to congratulate all of the couples last night. I still think James & Sharna and Calvin & Lindsay were more consistent and the better dancers, but, overall the season didn’t disappoint me. I really thought all the pros stepped it up with their choreography this season…..especially Sasha, Sharna, and Lindsay. I loved Derek, Cheryl, Allison, Emma, Maks, and Gleb too. I’m so thankful they all returned!! And what a great celebrity cast too. We had such great TV legends join us like Marilu (this lady has become so extra special to us! We consider her a friend!) and Maureen. Rick Perry was a hoot. Vanilla Ice was so fun. Terra Jole and Ryan Lochte were so inspiring. Laurie was a doll. What about the legendary Babyface too? Awww, what a season.
So, let’s see what the finalists thought of last night (I have to make this quick though as I have so much to do to get ready for Thanksgiving). Below you can watch some interviews. Don’t miss seeing ET Online, Glamour (I’m loving all of their backstage things), Fox, and People for all of their coverage after the show. Extra and Access Hollywood might have something later. So, be sure to see those sites. For beautiful, stunning HQ pics from Night Two, see Getty Images. If you missed any of the dances last night, see Idolxfactor.com.
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Stormy’s DWTS All Access Coverage:
More coming up with GMA coverage. Happy Happy Thanksgiving, Everyone, and thanks for joining us all season! Stick around in the off season, because something is always going on as we keep up with the Pros and the Tour. Pure Derek Hough will have everything for your Derek Hough needs and, as you know, he is one busy Guy. Don’t miss the Holiday Disney Specials with him and Julianne Thanksgiving and Christmas nights. Don’t miss seeing “Hairspray Live’ too with Derek on Dec. 7th.
"Dance is the hidden language of the soul" ~ Martha Graham. That's what DWTS makes me think of every Monday night. To read more about me and my other interests, see Lisa Kay Photography. You can also follow me at Voguerista Twitter & Voguerista Soundcloud.
As always…
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I often like the Finale – but I often find it to be jammed with pointless filler while we wait an absurdly long time to find out who wins. Which way will it feel tonight? I bet wine would help….
So far, I’m seeing a lot of stuff that looks rehashed either from earlier this season, or last thanksgiving’s season. Cuz Mandy.
No Derek in the pro dance, not a surprise, I guess. He should have known the choreo from earlier this season. ๐
James redoing my favorite dance of his…or one of them anyway. ๐
After the obligatory VT of early season happenings, we have Andy Grammar singing while Allison and Keo do a dance that starts out kinda strange.
Next up, Calvin and Lindsay – great dance from them, as per usual. ย Marilu on All Access, in All Access Update.
I love Maureen with all the men, including Babyface and Ryan!! That was fun, the lucky woman.
A pro dance that starts out as a bump and grind – shocking right?? I do like the colorful leotards though.
Of course Laurie and Val pick the dance that’s all about Maks and Val as their favorite. I question if they really picked it…
Very nice that they went to the Children’s hospital.
All Access Update – watching the Grove cam and that floor they’re on is very slippery.
OMG….this song makes me freakin’ SOB every damn time. And this beautiful dance to go with it. Jenna’s dress was hot. Glad she didn’t the whole song and make my eyes hurt. ๐
Love me some Babyface as well – so Smoooooth.
Rick Perry has gone insane in a wonderful, wonderful way. ๐
Okay Calvin and James just MADE what I though was going to be a boring guy strip number. And Ryan was there too? Cool. that was fun.
Terra being hilarious on the Grove Cam on All Access. Marilu trying not to bust her ass on the slippery floor.
And we are getting NO Derek tonight. :::sigh::: At least I get him twice on Thanksgiving. I don’t mean that to sound dirty. ๐ Seriously, they need to move inside – that floor is dangerous.
Maks trying real hard not to be a hypocrite on All Access about Laurie being an Olympian. He’s failing, of course.
Sorry, I’m finding All Access more interesting than the actual show. ย Which I see we are exploiting Laurie’s grief again. Goodie.
Okay this has cool potential with Fikshun in it. Don’t get the Jenna love though. Oooo…the ladies in pink look lovely. Sugar plum fairies?
Gee, look at Maks dancing with the cool little girl that no one on this show has ever danced with before. :::snark:::
Wow, the DWTS Tour finally made it to Radio City? Wow, wonder if they sell it out. And what’s this about a “Major Cast Announcement?”
Yeah, the order they just announced them in doesn’t bode well for James. I’ve seen it too many times.
Beautiful fusion from James – lovely. Seemed like he had both elements in there.
Julianne’s dress looks beautiful, what I can see of it.
Fun dance from Calvin and Lindsay – but man, CAI is just an idiot. Shut up already!
Judges are not going to change the results, since Laurie can’t get higher than 10s. She’ll get a 40. Why watch?
Well, if the judges gush over that too much they’ll look ridiculous. Okay who am I kidding. The one lift was messy as hell, but they’ll completely ignore it.
And that’s it – Laurie’s gonna win. CAI is acting the moron and we know what that means.
But Len didn’t do his “You should win” to Laurie, so maybe there’s hope.
Geez, Jana sings just like she dances – kinda flat yet over wrought.
I’m thinking that the exploitation certainly helped her.
Now…for third place: Calvin and Lindsay
AND THE WINNER IS….Laurie and Val. Congrats to Laurie – she’s a cutie.
And that, ladies and gentlemen is why I can’t take Val. Always the attention hog. Laurie’s moment, dude. Just…STFU.
I'm a nerd and proud of it. Two degrees in geology also means I love BEER. :-) I'm also a Derek lover - proud of that too. So don't scream at those of us on this site and call us a bunch of "biased Derek-lovers" - it's just ME. :-) It may sound like I hate DWTS at times, but really, I'm just a snarky nitpicker from way back. And I'm cynical and jaded too. But I do love DWTS. :-)
Dancing With The Stars Season 23 All Access is about to begin for night t of the Finals! You can watch all the โbehind the scenesโ coverage and interviews LIVE in the video below. You can also watch it at the Official Site here.
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"Dance is the hidden language of the soul" ~ Martha Graham. That's what DWTS makes me think of every Monday night. To read more about me and my other interests, see Lisa Kay Photography. You can also follow me at Voguerista Twitter & Voguerista Soundcloud.
Below is Edyta Sliwinska reviewing the Dancing With The Stars Season 23 finals with Entertainment Tonight. It’s so good to see her again!
"Dance is the hidden language of the soul" ~ Martha Graham. That's what DWTS makes me think of every Monday night. To read more about me and my other interests, see Lisa Kay Photography. You can also follow me at Voguerista Twitter & Voguerista Soundcloud.
Iโm somewhat happy to say that I donโt really know whatโs going to happen. ๐ย Not sure where to start on this one.
Well, I think my favorite freestyle was Calvinโs. But I think heโs going to get third place. Love the dudeโฆand I really find any man who gets emotional seeing his (extremely gorgeous) son exceptionally attractive. But I think he should be happy with third place, considering the competition. Read more..
I'm a nerd and proud of it. Two degrees in geology also means I love BEER. :-) I'm also a Derek lover - proud of that too. So don't scream at those of us on this site and call us a bunch of "biased Derek-lovers" - it's just ME. :-) It may sound like I hate DWTS at times, but really, I'm just a snarky nitpicker from way back. And I'm cynical and jaded too. But I do love DWTS. :-)
And so we wrap up another season of this show – and I’ll be honest: I’m pretty ready for it to be over.ย On top of the general fatigue of writing each season, I’ve also been dealing with some medical issues (namely, trying to find a suitable form of prophylaxis for my migraines), additional stress at my 9-5 (the FDA just loves to make my job harder!), dating (something I haven’t done in quite awhile), the election and its fallout (just…ugh), and just a general uptick in the level of aggression and vitriol from some fans of the show…which is not quite as balanced-out by some awesome discussion with very intelligent, engaging fans of the show as it used to be.ย I used to be able to say “Yeah, there’s assholes, but they’re far outnumbered by the number of really awesome people that I interact with as part of the show!” But at the rate the show is going, what with alienating core demographics with their manipulations and machinations in favor of pursuing more “desirable” demographics, they’re losing more and more of those really intelligent fans…and they’re gaining thin-skinned, entitled twatwaffles that label anything they don’t agree with as “bullying” and have a tendency to deliberately misinterpret things they either don’t like or aren’t quite smart enough to full comprehend.ย The quality of discussion has really gone downhill…and I’m left in a similar position to how I was post-All-Stars: should I still be blogging this show? Or is it time to move on? It will be food for thought for me in the off-season, no doubt.
But that’s not to say I didn’t enjoy this season – most of this season’s cast (minus maybe one celeb and one pro – not necessarily paired together) has been awesome to watch, and I even found myself liking Rick, Vanilla, Terra and Ryan far more than I thought I would! For what it’s worth, they found themselves a pretty likeable crop of celebs this season – people I could really pull for.ย And a wicked little part of me got a kick tonight out of seeing basically everyone taking the mickey out of Carrie Ann’s inane lift-policing on live TV tonight ๐ It’s actually extra-funny to me, considering that I now find myself blocked on Twitter by Carrie Ann for asking if the lift police were off-duty last week (and admittedly, it was one of my tamer tweets!). Also nice having Len back, although I’m not sure his presence made a ton of difference in critiques & scoring – it was maybe SLIGHTLY less off-the-wall than normal, and things do get a little gushy & hyperbolic in the finals, anyway.ย Train’s performance was weird and basically sampled “Heart & Soul” the same way that Pitbull samples pretty much every song popular in the 80s: poorly. Also found myself scratching my head at the La-La-Land performance. Erin, honey, you need to brush up on your A Christmas Story references – Randy can’t put his arms DOWN in the snowsuit, not up.ย Pssssh, next thing you know, she’ll be mispronouncing “fragile” – it’s “fra-gee-lay”.ย Which, of course, means it’s from Italy ๐ Can you tell I’m a fan?
Perhaps most satisfying was FINALLY seeing Jana given the boot, even if we were forced to endure yet another whiny, pity-party rehearsal package where she & Gleb bemoaned the various crap hands they’ve been dealt this season, from her rib injury to his flu virus, before witnessing two pretty gimmicky dances that didn’t leave a lasting impression. Her tango looked like just about every other dance she and Gleb did this season – too rushed, too trick-laden, too time-waste-y, too dramatic, and too bereft of solid, basic steps or good use of the floor (that damn platform needs to go).ย Gleb, honey, your body of work this season has got me very, very worried for the future of this show if you really and truly are supposed to be the “new Derek” – you’ve been a one-trick pony, and you’re gonna have to be a jack-of-all-trades if you want to fill D’s shoes.ย I’ll just say that Jana’s freestyle felt like the dance equivalent of a pumpkin spice latte: something pretty cliched that the average basic bitch probably loved, but wasn’t refined enough to realize is actually utter crap. It was a garden-variety contemporary, complete with over-the-top, angsty expressions and wild, flailing gestures, and with a gimmicky prop thrown in with a questionable degree of success.ย Those two wrapping each other up in that diaphonous piece of fabric kinda reminded me of playing that Halloween party game where you wrap your friends up in toilet paper to look like mummies – it made me laugh but I couldn’t take it seriously ๐ Kinda like some of the lifts, where Jana got so much of a running start that I thought for sure she was gonna go for a full-on star lift or even the famous Dirty Dancing lift…and then she went for something…not very dramatic.ย ‘Twas weird.ย But anyway – I think it may have clearly illustrated to viewers that Jana really didn’t belong in the finale in the first place, and was a bit out of her element…the other 3 finalists danced circles around her last night.ย I tend to think both Marilu and Terra could have given us more entertaining finale dances than Jana did.ย But I will applaud her for how complimentary she was to the other 3 finalists when she got eliminated – I think she even knew that she was a bit in over her head, making it to the finals. Read more..
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How about some stunning shots from Night One of the Dancing With The Stars Finals? These say it all, don’t they!! I have to say…I wasn’t sure on this new photographer at first, but, he has his settings just right now. Beautiful!
"Dance is the hidden language of the soul" ~ Martha Graham. That's what DWTS makes me think of every Monday night. To read more about me and my other interests, see Lisa Kay Photography. You can also follow me at Voguerista Twitter & Voguerista Soundcloud.
Below is some Good Morning America coverage and a little interview with Jana Kramer and Gleb Savchenko. You can also watch all the Freestyles again. Heaven! Thanks to @Idolxfactor1 for all of his speedy recordings and all of his hard work for us all season.
You can watch the Redemption dances and more at Idolxfactor.com.
"Dance is the hidden language of the soul" ~ Martha Graham. That's what DWTS makes me think of every Monday night. To read more about me and my other interests, see Lisa Kay Photography. You can also follow me at Voguerista Twitter & Voguerista Soundcloud.