With only five couples remaining, we are fast approaching the last stretch of the competition. Aside from Jerry who clearly stands out as the anomaly, the other four couples deserve their placing at this stage of the competition. It will become increasingly difficult to pick out the top three as they each present their own strengths and weaknesses on the dance floor.
Mario Lopez and Karina Smirnoff seem to have an advantage at this point, however. Week after week, they exude the right balance of energy, passion and chemistry. Mario is the best celebrity dancer on the show while Karina is unquestionably the best professional dancer on the show; together they are a winning combination.
This week they once again sizzled on the dance floor with a highly energized samba. I found myself having trouble focusing on Mario, though, because Karina overshadowed him a bit with her sensational rendition of the samba. It's so hard to take one's eyes off her because she is suc h an impossibly amazing dancer.
This week, Monique Coleman and Louis van Amstel cranked up the energy level much higher than usual with their upbeat, funky samba. Monique indulged in a solo opening that was more reminiscent of street dancing than samba, which may have hurt her scores, but showed she could let her personality burst out of its protective shell.
While the choreography itself lacked the customary festive, exotic flavor of the samba, it contained a lot of classic samba movements, such as samba rolls and promenade runs. To say that the routine looked nothing like samba would be unfair. Surely a dancer of Louis van Amstel's caliber would know better than any of those judges what a samba is.
Joey Lawrence and Edyta Sliwinska danced a sensual, chemistry-infused rumba last night. However, I must say that seeing Edyta's long white dress get stuck to her heels from time to time was a bit distracting. Furthermore, I felt that Joey failed to show proper rumba technique. Like Mario's dancing, Joey's dancing has a tendency to look 'clipped' and unfinished. His rumba looked a bit robotic next to Edyta's smooth, sensual hip movements. In the quest for sharpness, Joey sacrifices the flowing quality of this dance.
What makes rumba so difficult is that both sharpness and smoothness must be achieved. Rumba is the dance of constrast and contradiction where the couple goes from heartbreak to romantic bliss, betrayal to passion, conflict to love in the lapse of just moments, sometimes even split seconds. Both the movements and the facial expressions should display those quick transitions.
Jerry Springer delivered another comical performance with his matador parody of the paso doble. It's quite clear that Jerry is ready to go home and is in fact almost pleading to the audience to let him go.
Who should go: Don't even ask. You know who should go.
Who will go: Jerrymeister. His low scores from the judges hopefully will help with that.
Author:: Cinthia Razakalalao
Keywords:: Dancingwiththestars,Ballroomdancing
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