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Dancing With The Stars Season 8
RealityFreakWill:
For next weeks (3/23/09) dances, the couples are dancing the Samba and the Foxtrot.
The couples dancing the Foxtrot are:
David & Kym
Shawn & Mark
Ty & Chelsie
Steve-O & Lacey
Melissa & Tony
Chuck & Julianne
The foxtrot is described as:
* a very smooth dance
* There should be no jerkiness
* Lots of forward or backward moving patterns which are straight and well aligned
* The timing is everything. It needs to be: slow, quick, quick, slow.
* The Weave - is six quick steps in a row, all on the toes.
* The Feather Step - when the man steps outside the girl.
* zig zag patterns that the dancers create on the floor.
* Couples can break the "hold" allowing more open movements, including under arm turns.
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Those dancing the Samba are:
Lil' Kim & Derek
Gilles & Cheryl
Holly & Dmitry
Lawrence & Edyta
Denise & Maksim
Steve & Karina
The Samba is described as:
* A very rhythmical dance with lots of hip action.
* It has walking steps and side steps. Along with a vertical bounce action. Use of the ball of the foot is essential.
* The Basic step is a crossing action in front of the body, where you step across with the bounce
* It should include a rolling movement from the waist up. The upper body circles as you create a six-step turning group. (this is called a Samba Roll)
* Another move is called a Botafogo, which is a traveling walk with a change of direction from left to right or right to left.
* You will see lots of outstretched arms.
* The dance ends with throwing of heads back and arms splayed out
credit with with thanks to tmpray
RealityFreakWill:
Melissa on Jimmy Kimmel Live 3/20
credit with thanks to dwtsseason8
RealityFreakWill:
Melissa Rycroft Critical of Her 'Dancing with the Stars' Success
"The Bachelor" heroine Melissa Rycroft has gotten off to a running start on "DWTS," but Friday night on "Jimmy Kimmel Live," she cast a critical eye on her success!
Asked by Kimmel if she feels like she and pro partner Tony Dovolani are improving as the competition goes on, Melissa said, "I feel like we take ten steps backward every time the show ends and we start again, because it's a new routine and it's something I haven't done before. So, I was really comfortable with that stupid salsa that we did, and now you've got to throw that out the window and … foxtrot?"
Melissa also spilled more details about the new man in her life, saying that "when everything kind of went south with Jason [Mesnick] and 'The Bachelor' stuff, he was there to kind of pick up my pieces."
http://www.etonline.com/news/2009/03/72043/index.html
TexasLady:
I haven't been watching because of Idol. Is everyone fit now or still people injured?
RealityFreakWill:
Chris Harrison talks to the dancers after the elimination show for the TV Guide channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1BkepNpPU0
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