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Famous Dances Week was a Success on DWTS!

Last night’s Dancing with the Stars was very entertaining.  The opening number choreographed by Mandy Moore was spectacular.  She paid tribute to several famous dances, including Fred and Ginger, Chorus Line, Chicago, Singing in the Rain, and even All the Single Ladies by Beyonce.  The number would have been even more spectacular if the music could have a mash-up from the famous dances.   The stars and their partners also provided us with a huge array of dances, including, from Britney Spears’ to John Travolta in Grease to Elvis Presley.

Watch our review of the dances.  We are sorry to see Paula Deen leave but as she says, “Now she can see her grandbabies”.

Did the Switch Up on DWTS work for you?

Wow!  Overall, the switch up worked on DWTS.  The stars with their new professional dancers did a great job adjusting to a new partner.  Carlos and Alexa really stepped up their dancing.  Congratulations to Paula Deen, who learned Mark Ballas’ choreograph, showed wonderful growth in her dancing and received some 7s for her dancing.  Looks like Bindi, Alexa, Carlos, and Nick might be in the lead.

Wasn’t The Ugly Truth portion just good old fun watching them answer such personal questions.  On another note though it was disappointing that the producers needlessly embarassed Louis Van Amstel and Lindsay Arnold.

Did you connect with DWTS’ stars after learning about their most memorable year?

We are almost halfway through the Dancing with the Stars, Season 21.  Some of the stars such as Bindi Irwin, Hayes Grier, Nick Carter, Tamar Braxton and Alex and Carlos Penavega are better dancers than when they started, but not as improved as we would like to see.  Perhaps this season’s cast did not have much, if any, prior dancing experience? Do you feel as if this week’s packages affected the judge’s scores?

Do You Feel the Stars are Improving on DWTS?

First of all, let us say we are sorry that Kim Zolciak had to leave the show for health reasons, and that Tony Dovolani will no longer be competing this year.  Tony, like the other professional dancers on the show,  is a great partner because he is always trying to choreograph to his star’s strengths.

As for this episode, we enjoyed the TV show music theme.  Mark Ballas was incredibly creative with his Breaking Bad theme, and Alexa kept up with him beautifully.  Alek has been improving each week as well.  Was anyone surprised by who was in the bottom 2 this week?

Did the Stars on DWTS pull off learning 2 dances this week?

We watched Tuesday night’s DWTS episode where the dancers were required to perform a second dance this week.  However the highlight for us was the snippets we learned about the professional dancers.  Who would have enjoyed watching an hour learning more about Derek, Anna, Val, Louis and all other other professionals on DWTS rather than watching 2 hours of dancing this week?

Week #2 of Dancing With the Stars!

Did you watch last night’s episode?  Why does Derek get above average dancers each season?  Why is it necessary to make reference to people’s figures instead of their dancing? Did you feel that some of the dancers improved?   Watch our video to hear our thoughts.  Share your comments about the episode with us as well.

Welcome to Our Review of Fall 2015’s Dancing With the Stars!

As you may recall from last season, each week we review the previous night’s Dancing with the Stars episode. As you know last night (Monday) was this season’s (season 21) first episode with the new cast of stars from youth conservationist Bindi Irwin to horse jockey Victor Espinoza  and chef Paula Deen to Chaka Kahn to internet sensation Hayes Grier to Carlos and Alexa Penavega, just to name of few.  There are 13 “Stars” this season, each of whom is paired with a professional ballroom dancer and choreographer.  Derek Hough, Mark Ballas, and Val Chmerkovskiy as well as Allison Holker, Anna Trebunskaya and Sharna Burgess and 7 other professional dancers join the cast.  We hope you will tune in each Tuesday after you have watched the DWTS episode to hear our review.  Please feel free to share your thoughts on how the dancers, choreographers and judges performed as well.

It’s Time to Dance!

There is such a broad spectrum of music in our world — jazz, pop, classical, reggae, country, opera and rap (and many more)– and it is constantly be shaped and reshaped.  It is not uncommon to find rap sequences in r & b or even rap in an otherwise “easy listening” song.  Likewise, dance styles must grow and expand with the music.  Renee is always willing to challenge herself to choreograph to current music as well as the old standards.

We thought we would go back to our Tappin Duo roots and share some of Renee’s brilliant choreography to Pitbull’s Fireball.  Enjoy!!!