Strictly Come Dancing

Strictly Come Dancing Judges

2008-05-17T10:43:00.000-07:00

Strictly Come Dancing Judges
courtesy of the BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/strictlycomedancing

Len Goodman
Len began dancing when a foot injury put an end to his career in football and he hasn't looked back since. He went on to dance professionally and is now a professional judge. As well as working on Strictly, Len is a judge on the US version of the show, Dancing With The Stars.

Arlene Phillips
Arlene is a renowned theatre choreographer and has worked on numerous west end productions, movies and pop videos. As well as working on Strictly, Arlene was head judge on Strictly Dance Fever and recently went head to head with fellow judge Bruno Tonioli in Dance X.

Bruno Tonioli
Bruno has choreographed countless films, plays, music videos and TV shows, and has made numerous television appearances. Bruno is also a judge on the US version of Strictly, Dancing With The Stars, alongside fellow judge Len Goodman, and recently put dancers through their paces up against Arlene in Dance X.

Craig Revel Horwood
Craig began his career as a dancer back home in Australia and then in London's West End. He went on to become resident director for Miss Saigon and has since choreographed many theatre productions. Craig is also on the judging panel for Fame Academy and was recently a guest judge on New Zealand's Dancing With The Stars. Craig has a reputation for being our harshest judge.

How Good is Strictly Come Dancing?

2008-05-16T09:24:00.000-07:00

How Good is Strictly Come Dancing? By John L Orchan

Absolutely brilliant! It's just a simple dancing competition isn't it?

Ingredients...Take fourteen professional dancers, team them up with fourteen well known celebrities....compete with each other on a weekly basis. They all learn everything from the Tango to the Paso Doble. They all have to perform in front of a live studio audience every Saturday night, fighting to keep their place in the competition.

Each week someone is eliminated, until two are left standing as winners. The show starts in October and ends just before Christmas time, running for a total of three months.
Simple formula?...Yes.

However it has the ability to grip the whole nation for 12 weeks. Everyone is talking about it. I didn't have any interest in dancing 2 years ago. Fast forward...now I cannot get enough!

I know I am not alone. If you ever want a great conversation starter, a guaranteed 'chat up line', or ice-breaker, it has got to be... how good is Strictly Come Dancing?

It's so good that even the American's have their own version... Dancing With The Stars. The legend, who is Bruce Forsyth hosts the show along with the glamorous co-host Tess Daly.

The resident judges Len Goodman, Arlene Phillips, Craig Revel Horwood (probably the harshest judge), and Bruno Tonioli have to be impressed. They are great fun to watch,and they don't 'pull any punches' either.

Although their voting has an effect on the outcome..the real voting is done by us.. the public, during the show.

When the show ends on Saturday night, viewers can continue to vote for their favourite couple. The lines will then close and votes will be counted and verified. Then we are all treated to a Strictly Sunday results treat. The bottom two couples are announced. They will then face a very nerve racking dance-off.

Then it's all up to the judges to decide who will stay or go. Their decision is based solely on that single performance alone.

Rivetting stuff. Everyone can get very emotional out there...including me! The hot topic of debate in our whole family for three months is who is going to get voted off, who did well, who flunked, who did we feel sorry for, and of course...who's gonna win!

If you want the 'bug', then tune in to the dedicated Strictly blog which will be updated daily for 2008.

So next time you meet a stranger, ask them, "How good is Strictly Come Dancing?". Then be prepared for a very long conversation!

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Judging Strictly Come Dancing

2008-05-15T14:16:00.000-07:00

The Judging Criteria In Ballroom Dancing by William Saul

Along with maximum effort in practice, the most important factor that is to be gained in ballroom dancing is experience. In majority of completions, relative factor is regarded as an important point but in this sort of dancing you can find out a few set parameters and the couples in competition are rated. The toughest part in Ballroom dancing competition is judgment of every couple in comparison to the others.

Timing, Hold, Posture, Line, poise and Presentation are the powerful ratable factors in the competition. You can find out some extra factors being added in the list of these competitions.
Time doesn't wait for anybody else. Hence, timing is important factor but more important for ballroom dancing. Timing in Ballroom Dancing should be maintained accurately because a small mistake and plenty of negative points that will be uploaded in your account. Your timing should perfectly catch the music. This is the main reason for quite tough practice by those couples to grab out perfect timing right in their sleep.

Hold is the specific technique of holding your body parts perfectly symmetry with your partner's while performing any dance movement. Maintaining your body language especially legs, arms, feet and body in suitable time extremely helps you gain plus points. If you miss this step then you would miss your points.

Posture play vital role to ballroom dancing. The fine grace and maintained elegance cannot be expressed without perfect posture. The two important factors, confidence and perfect balance can be assured by maintaining perfect posture. Posture cannot just be easily gained; it requires a lot of practice. Hence, you can get perfect satisfaction in the end.

Line refers to the position of the body right from head down to your toes. You should ensure perfect line even if it is straight or curved. The important point to remember is line should be elegant, graceful and right.

Smooth dancing should fulfill the factor of poise. Poise is the technique of perfectly balancing your body while moving your body upwards and downwards. Poise is what sets you apart as you glide around the room. You can experience poise when women's body spins wisely into the man's waiting arms, balancing, connecting and defining it as a graceful movement.

Dancing correctly and gracefully doesn't fulfill all requirements that you need to become a winner. There is a factor more required and that is suitable presentation. Presentation primarily refers to the expression on your face. It is regarded as important factor to grab out plus point by expressing yourselves among all watching, especially the judges. Your perfect packaging of ballroom dancing should be blessed by your perfect presentation.

The togetherness between participated couple in ballroom dancing is a given. Hence, you and your partner have to perform and move wisely as a single. All moves relating leading and following should be performed without any seeming effort. Total synchronizing is what that is to be maintained in your every move to result out the awesome ballroom dancing.

Your result in judgment day can be announced according to your presentation or techniques. The reason behind is the unique style of judging by each judges. Each judge has their different ideas on what is appropriate and what is not to be done. It, of course means a single performance can be differently judge by two judges. However, there will be a greater concurrence among the judges and one hope that can be clearly seen to exist in end.

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Strictly Come Dancing

2008-05-14T16:47:00.000-07:00

Hi

If you love ballroom dancing then you must love the tv program Strictly Come Dancing. This program has donemore for ballroom dancing than anything else in recent years. This blog is devoted to Strictly Come Dancing and plans to include news and views about not only the program but dance competitions in general.

Come back soon to view the articles that will be posted here.

Bye for now
Gerry