Von & Witney – Review of DWTS Season 22, Week 04

DWTS Season 22, Week 04 

REVIEW: Von & Witney

Dancing a Romantic Waltz to “A Dream is a Wish” from Cinderella (2015 – COMPLETE with the actual Carriage, from the Film, present on the Dance Floor!), MVP, Von Miller, and his Professional partner, Witney Carson, submitted their Disney Night Routine!

Von & Witney

DWTS Season 22, Week 04

Disney Night

So this is love (Mmm-mm-mm-mmm!), so THIS is love!
So THIS is what makes Dance divine!!

So this is the Dancing-Miller that we’ve been dreaming of …
Ladies and Gentlemen (and Disney Princess Enthusiasts alike!) if you haven’t guessed, I positively ADORED this next Routine!!

Von & Witney

DWTS Season 22, Week 04

Disney Night

An Elegant Charm and Beautiful Brilliance sprang to life within Von’s Dancing on Disney Night’s Dance Floor as he deftly led his partner, Witney, around the Ballroom with an ever pleasing and seemingly effortless quality of Gentle Grace and Romantic Poise that amounted into what can only be called a Princely Performance!

Von & Witney

DWTS Season 22, Week 04

Disney Night

With such Lovely Lines, a Captivating Character Portrayal, and a Fantastically Firm Frame all coming together for Von during this no less than delightful Routine, it should come as little surprise that THIS Viennese Waltz proved his best dancing exhibit to date!

Von & Witney

DWTS Season 22, Week 04

Disney Night

And we simply MUST take a Paragraph here to discuss the ever-lovely “Princess Witney” whose supreme portrayal of Cinderella, brought about by enchanting Choreography and that Fairytale-worthy, purely EXQUISTE Dress left her reining as DWTS’ very own and truly the Fairest in the Land!  … With respect, of course, to Princess Snow White!

(Sorry, Snow, but for realz, Wit should get her very own Disney Animated Flick out of all this beauty, pomp, and daintiness!!)

Von & Witney

DWTS Season 22, Week 04

Disney Night

“What a staggering transformation since last week, I am totally enchanted! …” exclaimed Panel Judge, Bruno Tonioli, following the Routine while Judge, Carrie Ann Inaba, voiced “… Von,  that is the ‘Champion’ that I have been looking for!  … You’re like a ‘Prince Champion’ out there! … All of it, so charming, it was wonderful!”

Von & Witney

DWTS Season 22, Week 04

Disney Night

Even Guest Judge, Zendaya Coleman, presumably swept up in the perfectly-Disney Atmosphere and Dazzling Vibrancy of the Dance seemed almost forced to call it right for once and comment, “… you were ‘Prince Charming’, and everybody was just, like, caught up in this fairytale; and, I think that you really painted that picture for us, so, that was beautiful!”

Von & Witney

DWTS Season 22, Week 04

Disney Night

But it was Head Judge, Len Goodman, who seemingly left every heart pounding within the Glitter Dome, as he teased, “Well, the thing is, I haven’t been grumpy tonight, and someone is gonna get it; and Von, it’s not you!  … Good Footwork, Musicality, Great stuff!”

Von & Witney

DWTS Season 22, Week 04

Disney Night

Well, hoorah, you guys, way to get it right this time (and who says DWTS Judges Dreams can’t ever come true?); but, to then follow up these accurate comments with a scoring of only all “8”’s (when this Dance CLEARLY deserved “9”s!!)???  … Good grief, people, way to go from being sweet and loveable to the detestable personification of the beloved classic’s Evil Step-Mother and Step-Sisters all in one sitting!  

Von & Witney

DWTS Season 22, Week 04

Disney Night

See video (below) to watch Von & Witney's Viennese Waltz on Week 04 of DWTS, courtesy of Dancing With The Stars' great YouTube channel!  

Antonio & Sharna – Review of DWTS Season 22, Week 04

DWTS Season 22, Week 04

REVIEW: Antonio & Sharna

Ladies and Gentlemen, dancing an absolutely KILLER Jazz to “Friend Like Me” (Didn’t the show already do this song on Season 18’s Disney Night??) from Aladdin, it’s Pittsburgh Steeler, Antonio Brown, and his Professional partner, Sharna Burgess!

Antonio & Sharna

DWTS Season 22, Week 04

Disney Night

Well, Antonio ain’t never had Dance like this, that’s for sure!

Antonio & Sharna

DWTS Season 22, Week 04

Disney Night

Yes sir, Antonio sir, and WHAT a pleasing treat!  Antonio just came out there and EXPLODED on Monday night’s Dance Floor, officially opening up Week 04 with his absolute BEST Performance yet!!

Antonio & Sharna

DWTS Season 22, Week 04

Disney Night

INCREDIBLY In-sync Steps and Footwork, a Commanding Stage Presence and Charisma, some Expert Musicality, and Plenty of Fun and Pizzazz all came together for Antonio during this Number which, at the time, would afford him the highest Score of the Season to date, of  9,8,9,9!!

Antonio & Sharna

DWTS Season 22, Week 04

Disney Night

And what of Sharna, who, through the aide of her characteristically BRILLIANT Choreography, would once again seamlessly step back into the role of Princess Jasmine (Sharna had first portrayed Jasmine in Season 20, with the eventual 3^rd Place Finalist, Noah Galloway) and offer a fresh, bold taste on a Song and Dance Pairing that had already been performed 2 years ago (in Season 18 with Drew & Cheryl)!!

Antonio & Sharna

DWTS Season 22, Week 04

Disney Night

“I said it a couple of weeks ago,” exclaimed Head Judge, Len Goodman, once the terrific Dance was through, “ ‘There’s a Dancer in there, and it’s just not come out!’  Tonight, the Dancer came out, you produced your best Dance so far, congratulations!” 

Antonio & Sharna

DWTS Season 22, Week 04

Disney Night

See video (below) to watch Antonio & Sharna's Jazz on Week 04 of DWTS, Courtesy of Dancing With The Stars' great YouTube channel!  

Wanya & Lindsay – Review of DWTS Season 22, Week 04

DWTS Season 22, Week 04

REVIEW: Wanya & Lindsay

Ladies and Gentlemen, dancing a positively Pur-r-r-r-r-fect Samba to “Circle of Life” from The Lion King, Boyz II Men Singer, Wanya Morris, and his Professional dancing partner, Lindsay Arnold, submitted their Disney Routine!

Wanya & Lindsay

DWTS Season 22, Week 04

Disney Night

Talk about your Rip-ROARING Routines, I absolutely LOVED this Dance!

Exhibiting a no less than kingly Performance, Wanya  just simply came out on Monday night’s Dance Floor and completely KILLED it!!

Wanya & Lindsay

DWTS Season 22, Week 04

Disney Night

(“Mufasa!”   “<Shudder> Ooooo!!  … Do it again!”)

[For those of you who didn’t quite get that, shame on you …]

A Powerful Frame, Fierce Rhythm, Spot-on Footwork, and one truly exhilaratingly FEROCIOUS Attitude all came together for the exemplary Competitor that is Wanya on Disney Night, producing what was most certainly his GREATEST Dance of the Season thus far!  … And, believe you me, dwtslovers, that when it comes to this particular King of the Ballroom (Get it?) that is saying a whole lot!!

Wanya & Lindsay

DWTS Season 22, Week 04

Disney Night

Presented to us, for our viewing pleasure, by what was some of the BEST Choreography to have ever been exhibited on a Disney Night (Wonderful Job, Lindsay!!), the immaculate Dancing that was displayed by Wanya within the Glitter Dome went on to very easily and naturally receive a just scoring of all 10’s … <Record Scratch> …Wait, WHAT?!  … Only “9”’s??  SERIOUSLY?!  Have you Judges just totally lost your minds, or something??  That’s friggin’ CRAZY!!

Wanya & Lindsay

DWTS Season 22, Week 04

Disney Night

(“There’s one on every” Judging Panel, I guess!  … There’s at least TWO on DWTS’ …)

“I loved seeing this side of you [Wanya],” expressed an un-amused Judge Carrie Ann Inaba, when critiquing the Performance, “this ‘Primal’, ‘Powerful’ side; but, what I think is that you over-danced it a little in the beginning, and you lost control of it <Interrupted by loud, vehement Booing from the show’s live Audience>  He’s nodding, people! [Referring to the emphatic nodding being displayed by Wanya during her reproof]  You lost control of it, and you were a bit out of step in the beginning!  … I love seeing this side [of you, Wanya], I want more of that, but I want it to work!”  

 … You want it to work?

 …You want it to WORK??

 …You want it to WORK?!

You want WHAT to work, Carrie Ann?!!

Excuse me, but, speaking for the rest of this Samba’s viewers who DIDN’T seemingly pop a bunch of Stupid Pills before Monday night’s show, Wanya was just “work”-ing it, ALL OVER THE DANCE FLOOR!!

I mean, good grief, Inaba, did you even see the TREMENDOUS Dancing that just took Place, RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU?!!  PERFECT Frame, PERFECT Lines, PERFECT Musicality, PERFECT, kingly Character Portrayal, and on his toes THE WHOLE FREAKING TIME … Honestly, Carrie Ann “Insane”, how much more “work”-ing could you possibly want?!!!

For crying (or, “roaring”, I guess) out loud, I seriously doubt that, even in your “Hey-Day”, you could have done any better yourself!  … And, what’s worse, I think you may know this, Carrie Ann …  (Have you just COMPLETELY lost it??  ‘Cause we want YOU to work again!)

Oh, OH!  And poor Wanya was “nodding”, Carrie Ann, because he is (in my opinion) just not the sort to question someone who SHOULD “know best”!  … That is just part of the responsibility of being a Dance Judge, Inaba, and why stupid comments that are seemingly born out of your own, personal, foul mood should never escape your lips when sitting behind the show’s Judges’ Desk … shame on you!

“… You know,” Head Judge Len Goodman observed of the Dance, “some people call it ‘Samba’, some people call it ‘Samba’, I call it ‘Fan-tas-tic’!”

… Thank you, Len, thank you.

Wanya & Lindsay

DWTS Season 22, Week 04

Disney Night

See video (below) to watch Wanya & Lindsay's Samba on Week 04 of DWTS, Courtesy of Dancing With The Stars' great YouTube channel!  

Jodie & Keo – Review of DWTS Season 22, Week 04

DWTS Season 22, Week 04

REVIEW:  Jodie & Keo

Performing a Cha-Cha to “Try Everything” from Zootopia, Fuller House star, Jodie Sweetin, and her Pro partner, Keo Motsepe, presented their Disney Dance!

Jodie & Keo

DWTS Season 22, Week 04

Disney Night

Well, first off, and I just have to ask:  While I’m certainly one to appreciate all the work and tedious, wearisome detail that MUST go into putting on a Live show each and every week, what was all that squabble and fuss that Jodie was concocting in her Pre-Dance Rehearsal Package about, seeing as how she and Keo were nowhere NEAR the Chair/Animated Antelope at any point during the Routine???

(Heck, you couldn’t even SEE the Antelope for the majority of the live Performance!  … There was one there the whole time, right?)

That said, I really enjoyed this Routine!!  Okay, so sure, there were those one or two ... okay, FEW … Mess-ups displayed throughout the dancing of it by Jodie; but, overall I must say that I had found this Cha-Cha-ing exhibition to be a delightfully gratifying Performance!

Jodie & Keo

DWTS Season 22, Week 04

Disney Night

With Tip-top Rhythm, STELLAR Hip and Leg Action, and a beautifully Preserved Dancing Frame that had remained throughout each and every error, Jodie proved to possess her own Pro-like Quality as she deftly carried out an already doomed Dance (score-wise, anyway) with a never-fading, Stage-Brightening Smile and Charisma!

Jodie & Keo

DWTS Season 22, Week 04

Disney Night

Likewise, her partner, Keo, through the cool use of the intellect and adaptability his long-time career in the art of Professional Dancing had afforded him, was able to (more or less) smooth over any and all of the Dance’s incurring “Bumpy” passages, ultimately enabling this Routine to remain, overall, the Scrumptiously Fun and Pleasing experience it was meant to be!

Jodie & Keo

DWTS Season 22, Week 04

Disney Night

“… You kept going, and that’s all that really matters!  You know what I mean?” began Guest Judge, Zendaya Coleman, with Judges Critiques following the Performance, “Good on you for continuing and pushing through!” while Bruno Tonioli labeled Jodie as being “… the most beautiful Gazelle to ever Stumble in the Jungle!  …”
“So, I’m just curious,” queried Judge Carrie Ann Inaba, “because it was an underwhelming Performance, and I know that you know that, but like, what happened?”

Oy, OUCH, Carrie Ann!  Let’s please try and reign in those Cat Claws, could we?  Because that was such a pointedly mean, unnecessary question to ask this poor girl whose standing before you, so very obviously upset and even seemingly on the verge of tears; and, I know that you know that; but like, WHY in the world would you ask that?!

“I couldn’t hear! I couldn’t hear the music! …” responded Jodie, trying to laugh.

“Okay,” mused the cold and calculating Carrie Ann, “… it felt like you were Marking and you guys couldn’t get in sync!”

(That’s what she just said … Are you coming to any sort of point anytime soon, Carrie Ann?!)

“… It’s really important to ‘Zoom’ into each other,” (Ah!  A “point”, at long last!) “I kinda felt that, when you got a little lost, you didn’t quite go into Keo, the way he was there for you.”

Well, shows what YOU know, Carrie Ann; ergo, NOTHING, because that is EXACTLY what Jodie did!!  … <Whispering secretly> Psssst! PSSSST, Carrie Ann!! I don’t mean to embarrass you; but that's kinda how Jodie was able to get through the Dance!

“So, really work on that Partnership and the Trust!  I know it was a tough Routine, and I’m not, I’m not putting you down for it,”

(REALLY?!  Could’ve fooled me!)

“I’m just trying to help you, as you move forward.”

“Forward” into WHAT??  … A written Apology?!!

Good night, Carrie Ann, would you lighten up?!  The “tough Routine” was really quite GREAT, thank you very much!  It just suffered from a few Missteps, that’s all!  … Missteps that, through Jodie & Keo’s PERFECTLY intact “Partnership”, DIDN’T AT ALL HINDER THIS CHA-CHA FROM BEING A SUPREMELY ENJOYABLE PERFORMANCE!!

“Well, it wasn’t underwhelming, at all!” countered Head Judge Len Goodman, “It was full on, you went for it big time, you had a go, Okay!  … No, no, no! [In response to what can only be described as some sudden, inaudible screeching in protest from Carrie Ann]  What it was, you went wrong!  And the trouble is it’s like getting a pimple on your nose:  You hope no one notices, but they always do!  So, [that said] ‘Underwhelming’ it was not, so well done!”

Well, thank you, Lenny, and nice it is to hear the voice of sanity!  <Looking back over at Carrie Ann to curtly stick my tongue out> <Nnnnnhhhhh!!>

See video (below) to watch Jodie & Keo's Cha-cha on Week 04 of DWTS, Courtesy of Dancing With The Stars' great YouTube channel!  

Doug & Karina – Review of DWTS Season 22, Week 04

DWTS Season 22, Week 04

REVIEW: Doug & Karina

Dancing a terrifically fun Jazz to “A Spoonful of Sugar” from Mary Poppins, Football Legend, Doug Flutie, and his Professional partner, Karina Smirnoff, presented their Disney Night Routine!

Doug & Karina

DWTS Season 22, Week 04
Disney Night

Well, apparently, it seems that just a spoonful of sugar will help the medicine go down, as whatever this fun and fresh Jazz Number may have lacked in Technical Execution, it MORE than made up for with a sweet amount of Playful, Performing Pizzazz and, of course, that all important Disney-like Quality!

Doug & Karina

DWTS Season 22, Week 04
Disney Night

I mean to say, I positively adored this Routine!!

But then again, honestly, who wouldn’t have adored it?  It was just so purely … Oh, what is that word? … “Happy”!!

Doug & Karina

DWTS Season 22, Week 04
Disney Night

(You know, Guest Judge, Zendaya Coleman, that warm and pleasant feeling that just seems to immediately evaporate out the Ballroom’s atmosphere whenever you speak …) 

True, this delightful Dance did see more than its fair share of mounting errors throughout the course of the performance, including but not limited to:  some sloppy footwork, some lifts gone slightly awry (Although major kudos, Doug, for pulling through both times, and finishing the Lifts anyway!), and what seemed like some kind of physical aversion to that other Mary Poppins’ timeless classic, “Step in Time”!

Doug & Karina

DWTS Season 22, Week 04
Disney Night

However, it must also it be said that, by Routine’s end, while Flutie’s Dancing had certainly displayed all of the above, it equally reigned as some of the fun-est of the evening, having been so scrumptiously preserved with an endearing amount of Proper Character Portrayal and Showmanship by Doug, and some seriously fantastic Choreography, courtesy of the ever-talented Karina, whose inclusion of Terrific Table-Top Tricks, both at the beginning and at the end of the Dance, one or two elements of too-cute Comedy, and those always-crowd-pleasing Judges’ Desk Kicks was in absolute PERFECT keeping with the Night’s Theme!

Doug & Karina

DWTS Season 22, Week 04
Disney Night

“I saw the makings of a good Routine,” voiced Panel Judge, Carrie Ann Inaba, when the Dance was over, “but I don’t think you actually delivered on it … and I feel terrible … I saw the intention, I could tell you put in the work, it just did not come together tonight.”

(A fair enough critique, Carrie Ann, although I can’t say that I appreciate the implication that this Routine just up and fell flat on its face either, instead of being recognized for the enjoyable showing that it was overall!)

“There were mistakes, you know, and that happens,” offered the 19-year-old, Zendaya (… Ah, good!  Here we go with a more sane perspective …), “… I think the number one thing is, always remembering that, when you’re on the stage, [to] like, [always be] ‘Channeling’ all that aggression, all that anger, all that ‘Upset’, and just, into ‘Disney Magic’!”

<Record Scratch!> Wait, WHAT?!  Am I crazy, or isn’t that JUST what Doug had already accomplished, only minutes ago???

 “You know this is Disney,” the presumptuous TEEN continued, “this is Disney Night, [so] enjoy it!”

<Drumming Fingers> … That’s exactly what Doug did, you twit! … Still waiting, by the way, on an actual critique, or did you even have any accurate thoughts to offer on the current topic at all?!

“Take it from a ‘Disney Girl’ myself, sometimes, you know, there [are] times I’m mad, I’m angry, but I just, I channel that into positivity! …”

Oh!  Oh, now I see, you weren’t critiquing this Dance at all, were you, Zendaya?  (Or, if you were, you 100% FAILED miserably!)  But no! … It would appear to me that all that Channeling Crap and seemingly Genuine Gusto were all mere verbal ploys to afford your own, “Perfect” self the ultimate gratification of a Side-ways Compliment!

Good grief, girl (and while I feel pretty sure that, on Disney Night at least, the show would have set up one or two Evil “Mirror, Mirror”s on the wall, in the back of the building somewhere for vain individuals, such as yourself), would it be quite alright with you if the REST of us were to proceed with the critiquing and subsequent scoring of the ACTUAL PERFORMANCE AT HAND?!!

... Honestly, what a Self-serving, Self-aggrandizing ... ! 

 
“Well, what I liked,” began Head Judge, Len Goodman, with some sincerely voiced opinions on Doug & Karina’s Jazz, “You got right into the ‘Character’ of the Dance!  You made it fun, you made it entertaining, it was enjoyable to watch, it just got out of Sync a couple of times during the Routine, but, Doug, I dig it!”

Well, thank YOU, Len, and there we have it, folks … <Casting an arched glance in Zendaya’s general, misguided direction> … Len “dig”s it, so THERE!!

See video (below) to watch Doug & Karina's Jazz on Week 04 of DWTS, Courtesy of Dancing With The Stars' great YouTube channel!