Dancing
With The Stars, Season 22 Celebrity, Jodie Sweetin, was formally
booted out of the Ballroom competition last Monday evening in a disappointing
Wrap up to the show's exciting Quarterfinals.
Unarguably one the Season's most consistent and
all-around better Performers right from the start, Jodie was able to conclude her Fantastic Weeks on the
program with the earning of her very first (and only this Seasons 3rd) Perfect Score of all “10”s from the show’s Panel Judges, landing her in an
exhilarating TIE for 1st Place at the Top of Week 08’s Leader Board,
and affording her that always gratifying result of being able to exit the DWTS Ballroom on her best-scored Dance
to date!
Jodie & Keo
Eliminated
DWTS Season 22, Week 08
“… I got to go out on all 10’s, that’s amazing!” the
Actress exclaimed following her Elimination, also noting that her time on the
show had enriched her life in more ways than one when she added, “… This has been an absolutely incredible
experience!… I’ve made some wonderful
friends!”
Introducing its first ever Judges Team Up Challenge
round of Competition, Dancing With The
Stars’ three, Panel Judges each chose 2 of the Season's 6 remaining Couples
to “Team Up” in a presumably exciting Dancing Quartet with unexpected results …
Team
Bruno:
Dancing the Argentine Tango to “Habanera” by Georges Bazet, DWTS Judge, Bruno Tonioli’s, selected Team of Jodie & Keo and Nyle
& Peta submitted their Team Up Performance.
DWTS Season 22, Week 08
- Judges Team Up Challenge Round
The better, in my opinion, of the three Team Up
routines, Team Bruno’s over
all execution of this difficult Latin Dance was surprisingly great for all the
individual parties involved.
Indeed, Jodie
Sweetin’s opening of the smooth and silky Number, with the three other
Dancing Professionals (including that of Pro, Peta Murgatrod), was exceptionally good, even byJodie’s own highly set and strictly
kept standards!
Granted, that there were one or two moments during the
Opening of the Dance, and again near the Close, when her Dancing Lines were not
quite Sharp, nor Fully Extended; but overall, I must say, a truly stellar
Performance!!
Likewise, Nyle
DiMarrco’s Strong yet Fluid Exhibition proved most excellent,
impressively holding his own when mercilessly stacked up against the Routine's
three other Male Professionals! All in all a most gratifying effort within this
novel Round, and most certainly the most successful!
Team
Len:
Dancing a Strangely Subpar Samba to “Jump in the
Line (Shake, Senora)” by Harry
Belafonte, Head Judge, Len Goodman’s, chosen Couples of Ginger & Val andWanya
& Lindsay presented their Team Up Routine.
DWTS Season 22, Week 08
- Judges Team Up Challenge Round
<Mouth gaping wide open in horrified, stunned disbelief> Oh, good grief! WHAT a disappointment!
(What is the world of Ballroom Dance coming too?!!)
Is it just me, or did DWTS Beloved – and highly respected – Len just tragically fail, and somewhat miserably at that???
This seemingly phoned-in, total child's play of a
Performance was upsetting and (dare I say?) IRRITATING, to say the least, as DWTS' no-fuss, no-muss Judge appeared
suddenly incompetent, Choreographing what was truly one of the absolute DUMBEST Dances witnessed in the show's
adored Ballroom - at least, that I can remember – in a long (LONG)
while!
DWTS Season 22, Week 08
- Judges Team Up Challenge Round
Honestly, Len,
just because you’re the Best in the Ballroom doesn’t mean that you don’t have to actually try … like, AT ALL!!
Even with Len making a brief - and completely UN-GRATIFYING - appearance near the end of this depressing and sickening
colorful array made this Dance feel all the more pathetic and useless!
DWTS Season 22, Week 08
- Judges Team Up Challenge Round
(I mean, for crying out loud, folks, if endeared Grumpy Goodman’s face could not
rescue this Dance from the depths of Cheesesville, was there ever really any
hope for it in the first place??!)
Not to mention, Season 22’s Competing participant, Wanya Morris’, Dancing was only
“Pleasing”, albeit Fun, to say the very most, while recent Rising
Dancing-Force, Ginger Zee, sadly lapsed back into her Performing “Comfort-zone” consisting of
apathetic, Lazy Lines, halfhearted Charisma,and an overall Shoddy Execution!
DWTS Season 22, Week 08
- Judges Team Up Challenge Round
… Simply dreadful.
Team
Carrie Ann:
Dancing the Paso Double to “Everybody Wants to Rule
the World” by Lorde, Judge Carrie Ann Inaba’s Dancing Duos Antonio & Sharna and Paige & Mark closed down
Week 08’s Competition.
DWTS Season 22, Week 08
- Judges Team Up Challenge Round
An admittedly Emoting Performance overall, Carrie Ann’s contemporary take on this typically exhilarating Latin Style of Dance was oddly ill-pleasing in most stages of the Routine, as her Artistic Choreography (“Artistic”, a word that often stands for “Unique”) effectively had its participants stomping about the ballroom like slender, Taupe-clad (Ugh! Raise your hands if you’re positively DISGUSTED with the non-color of Taupe; stop embarrassing yourself if you’re not) Gorillas instead of refined, Quarterfinals Competitors!
DWTS Season 22, Week 08
- Judges Team Up Challenge Round
Even Season Front-runner, Paige VanZant , was uncharacteristically Heavy in her Feet and Lines!
Not to mention, the seemingly evasive – and yet,
somehow, still completely necessary – element of all Four of the Dance's
participants Performing In Sync with one another throughout the whole of the
Routine proved a task much (much)too
hard to accomplish!
DWTS Season 22, Week 08
- Judges Team Up Challenge Round
It must be said, however, before wrapping up this
Post, that Antonio's Spinning
Lift of Paigewas a
little more than impressive, to say the least!
Still, in the end, I found this (what appeared
to be) ill-conceived attempt at recreating her Season 20, Noah & Sharna
Paso to be a flailing one at best, as well as an empty one.
See videos (3,below) to watch Judges Len, Bruno, and Carrie Ann's "Team Up Challenge" Dance on Week 08 of DWTS, courtesy of Dancing With The Stars' great YouTube channel!
Ladies and Gentlemen, taking home the 3rd
and 4th Perfect Scores of Season 22, it's the Ballroom’s Break-out
Competitor, Zee, and
Top-of-the-Leader Board newcomer, Sweetin,
closing out Week 08’s Quarterfinals competition with an overall total of 59
Points out of 60 from the show's Panel Judges, for Round 01 and 02 of the
evening!
Ginger
& Val:
Dancing a too-good-to-be-true Argentine Tango to
“Telephone” by Martynas Levickis,
Ginger Zee and her
Professional dancing partner, Valentin
Chmerkovskiy, presented an absolute KILLER Performance for their Quarterfinals Routine!
Ginger & Val
DWTS Season 22, Week 08
It’s raining “10”s for Dancing With The Stars’ Performing Meteorologist, Ginger, and her partner, Val, as this increasingly
Formidable Duo brought home yet another
Perfect Scoring of all “10”s from the Judges Panel for their Passionate Latin
Dance!
Ginger & Val
DWTS Season 22, Week 08
Supremely EXQUISITE in every (no less than!) gorgeous detail, GMA’s stereo-typically lazy competitor, Zee, effortlessly proved once more that she is now most definitely In it to Win it, when with
each and every breathtaking moment and beautiful Dancing-Line, Ginger succeeded
in marking this Dance as one of the better ones among all of Season 22’s!!
Ginger & Val
DWTS Season 22, Week 08
And what of Val?Whose thrillingly STELLAR Choreography (Even by Chmerkovskiy standards!) and inclusion of that one -
STILL-mind-blowingly - REMARKABLE Lift
left his Audience - Myself, of course, included! - effectively on the edge of
its seat and craving for much, much more!
Ginger & Val
DWTS Season 22, Week 08
“… What I loved,” exclaimed Head Judge, Len Goodman, when critiquing this
Performance, “was the Lightning Show:Fast, slow!Big, small!Hard, soft!Fire, ice!I’m telling you, that
was one hell of Dance!”
Jodie
& Keo:
Dancing the Jive to “Something’s Got a Hold on Me”
by Etta James, Jodie Sweetin and her
Professional partner, Keo Motsepe, submitted their Week 08
Routine.
Jodie & Keo
DWTS Season 22, Week 08
An amazing display in the way of Technical Execution, TeamMoSweet were once again Shucking and, well, Jiving on Monday Night, bringing home their very first Perfect Score of the Season for this Routine!
Jodie & Keo
DWTS Season 22, Week 08
With a fine showing of Great Rhythm, Dancing Lines, and Performance Pizzazz, Jodie
successfully Kicked and Flicked her way the top – Although, being completely
honest, I had personally found some of her Fast and Fun Footwork to be leaning
towards “Slightly Heavy-footed”, though that just may have been the direct,
visual result of opting to wear Flats instead of Heels! – impressing the show's
Panel Judges and thrilling the Ballroom's live Audience!
Jodie & Keo
DWTS Season 22, Week 08
“… Now, let me be honest,” voiced Head Judge, Len Goodman, following this Performance, “the first couple of Weeks I felt you were a little bit nervous, little bit unsure of yourself; but, as the Competition’s gone on, you’ve grown and you’ve flown … I’ve not seen … any Dance … [that has] made me feel so happy as what you’ve danced!”
Jodie & Keo
DWTS Season 22, Week 08
See videos (2, below) to watch Ginger & Val's Argentine Tango and Jodie & Keo's Jive on Week 08 of DWTS, courtesy of Dancing With The Stars' great YouTube channel!
In an always gratifying display of Fabulous
Teamwork, DWTS Seasonal Round of Team
Dancing came and went once more with few surprises, but a whole lotta fun!
It does seem worth noting, however, that the
Individual Team of Paige & Mark
unarguably killed it, whether dancing
together, in a Group, or apart,
Paige & mark - Team Beyonce
DWTS Season 22, Week 07
- Icons Night - Team Dances
and that the suddenly-Progressive Duo, Ginger &Val, ergo saw some much, MUCH LESS definite highlights themselves!
Jodie
& Keo were more or less impressive as well,
although neither Jodie nor Ginger did very well with the In
Sync Group Segments.
Kim
Fields (now prepare yourselves for the Facts of Reality!)
is, most unfortunately, not even worth discussing, as little to no actual Dancing took place with this Celebrity
during the whole of the Routine.
All in all (and with respect to the gal(s) who ACTUALLY did well … <Loud Cough> PAIGE!), I found this Dance
to be a Mood-downing, Epic Fail of a Routine, and was very glad for the “8”s
which it received from the show's Panel Judges.
Team Beyonce
DWTS Season 22, Week 07
- Icons Night - Team Dances
<Rubbing Temples in Disappointment>. Ugh!C'mon ladies, now get in formation and prove to
me that you’ve got some coordination, ‘cause I’ve yet to see it!
Team
James Brown:
Ow! I feel good, like I knew that I would now!!
Team James Brown
DWTS Season 22, Week 07
- Icons Night - Team Dances
Ladies and Gentlemen, presenting the night's
all-Male Freestyle Dance and pos-o-tiv-ly KILLING it, it’s the TERRIFIC
Teaming of Von &Witney, Nyle & Peta, Wanya & Lindsay, and Antonio & Sharna!!
Team James Brown
DWTS Season 22, Week 07
- Icons Night - Team Dances
(Or, as I like to also call it, “The Besties Pro Team” of Witney and Lindsay, and Peta
and Sharna!)
Team James Brown
DWTS Season 22, Week 07
- Icons Night - Team Dances
I mean to say I absolutely LOVED this Dance, its
Crazy-Cool Choreography (Splendid job, Ladies!!), and its every little STELLAR
Detail! From the “Wow!”-inspiring Antics of Antonio,
Team James Brown
DWTS Season 22, Week 07
- Icons Night - Team Dances
to the All-American,
Super Bowl MVP, Von,
Von & Witney - Team James Brown
DWTS Season 22, Week 07
- Icons Night - Team Dances
to the
“JB” Throwback by Wanya,
Wanya & Lindsay - Team James Brown
DWTS Season 22, Week 07
- Icons Night - Team Dances
to
the Group-leading Hustle by Nyle,
Team James Brown
DWTS Season 22, Week 07
- Icons Night - Team Dances
who, btw – Did anyone else notice? – “received” his Beat and Sense of
Rhythm from an “obliging” Wanya!
Team James Brown
DWTS Season 22, Week 07
- Icons Night - Team Dances
Team James Brown
Wanya gives Nyle the beat during their
Team Dance on
DWTS Season 22, Week 07
- Icons Night - Team Dances
“So nice, SO nice!!” (get it?) and “10”s all around!!… Wait, ... only “9”s?!!What up, Judges?!
Of course, I guess it would make sense to let Team James Brown’s follow up
Performance of Team Beyonce
have a chance to one up their predecessors with the earning of all “10”s; but in hindsight, what a waste!
“Well, you know, the whole night, for me, has been
amazing!” exclaimed Head Judge, Len
Goodman, following the Performance. “The dancing, the standard, has been
great; and, when I look at you people, you’ve not only had to learn your Personal
Dance, but you’ve had to come out, work tight, get it together. I salute the
lot of you!”
Team James Brown celebrates after their
incredible performance!
DWTS Season 22, Week 07
- Icons Night - Team Dances
See videos (2, below) to watch Team James Brown's and Team Beyonce's dance on Week 07 of DWTS, courtesy of Dancing With The Stars' great YouTube channel!
