DWTS GALLERY - Tamar & Louis - S21 Wk05

DWTS - SEASON 21, Week 05
GALLERY:  Tamar & Louis

Pictures go with written review:
Tamar & Louis - Review of DWTS Season 21, Week 05
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Tamar & Louis' Samba
DWTS Season 21, Week 05 -
Switch Up Week

Tamar & Louis' Samba
DWTS Season 21, Week 05 -
Switch Up Week

Tamar & Louis' Samba
DWTS Season 21, Week 05 -
Switch Up Week

Tamar's "... once-again absent-minded
facial expression ..."

Seriously ... what is she looking at?

Tamar's so-called Samba roll

DWTS GALLERY - Tamar & Val - S21 Wk04

DWTS - SEASON 21, Week 04
GALLERY:  Tamar & Val

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Tamar & Val - Review of DWTS Season 21, Week 04 
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Tamar & Val
DWTS Season 21, Week 04 -

Most Memorable Year Night

Tamar & Val
DWTS Season 21, Week 04 -

Most Memorable Year Night

Tamar & Val
DWTS Season 21, Week 04 -

Most Memorable Year Night

Tamar & Val
DWTS Season 21, Week 04 -

Most Memorable Year Night

Nick & Sharna, Tamar & Val – Review of Dance Duet, DWTS Season 21, Week 09

DWTS Season 21, Week 09

Dance Duet REVIEW:

Nick & Sharna, Tamar & Val

Dancing a Cirque du Soleil Love-themed Rumba to “Hey Jude” by the Beatles, Nick Carter, Sharna Burgess, Tamar Braxton, and Valentin Chmerkovskiy presented their Week 09, Show Stopping routine.

“I’m concerned about me dancing with Cirque du Soleil and looking like a Cirque du Soleil Professional Dancer!  I don’t want to look like ‘Tamar, the Competition Girl’ dancing with all of these Professional Dancers.  I want to look like I worked just as hard and you can’t tell the difference!” expressed Tamar during her pre-dance, Rehearsal Package.

<Popping Lips> Well, Tamar, consider your worst fears realized, as “Tamar the Competition Girl” is exactly how you danced on Monday.

Tamar & Val and Nick & Sharna 

DWTS Season 21, Week 09 -

Showstopper Night - 
Dance Duets Round 

Once again, a slumped Frame, lazy Movement and a lack of Character Portrayal ruled the major part of your performance and was combined with a new flaw: dancing out of sync with everyone else, effectively tainting the entire routine.

I did enjoy the Choreography however; and, I thought that Nick more or less killed it; but, even his old, Haunting Habit of Hunching his shoulders and weakening his Frame reared its ugly head one or two times during the dance.

Tamar & Val and Nick & Sharna 

DWTS Season 21, Week 09 -

Showstopper Night - 
Dance Duets Round 

It was nice, too, that Tamar managed to make it back in time to the Studio so that Nick & Sharna wouldn’t have to be judged by their Dress Rehearsal footage!

(I think that it’s pretty plain that, judging by her Contemporary Dress Rehearsal footage displayed earlier in the evening, Tamar would not have fared well at all with this potential outcome, although one can easily imagine that Nick would have done alright … still, it cannot be a fun thing to go through.)

In the end, I found the judges’ scoring of three 9’s for this dance to be entirely too generous and so very obviously the judges’ version of a “Pity Vote” which was a little more than unfair to the Night’s other Competitors!

I mean, Tamar’s reported illness could indeed be seen as “Pitiable”; but c’mon people, that dance rated no more than a 7 or an 8.

But, hey!  Don’t make it bad!  This Duets’ participants took what very easily could have been a rotten ending to all of their evenings and, through an all around group effort (including Tamar’s unexpected arrival), made it better!

Tamar & Val and Nick & Sharna 

DWTS Season 21, Week 09 -

Showstopper Night - 
Dance Duets Round 

Tamar & Val and Nick & Sharna 

DWTS Season 21, Week 09 -

Showstopper Night - 
Dance Duets Round 

Tamar & Val – Review of DWTS Season 21, Week 09

DWTS Season 21, Week 09

REVIEW:  Tamar & Val

Dancing a Cringe-inducing Contemporary, Tamar Braxton and her (poor, poor) Professional partner, Valentine Chmerkovskiy, submitted their first Week 09 routine.

Tamar & Val

DWTS Season 21, Week 09 -

Showstopper Night

Well, that dance was way more Catastrophe-in-motion than Contemporary!

Truly Tamar’s worst …

Tamar & Val

DWTS Season 21, Week 09 -

Showstopper Night

And yes, I know, I know, it was only the poor thing’s Dress Rehearsal performance, and she WAS sick; however, that excuse can only carry a Celebrity so far, for while Braxton’s illness may cover any number of lazy Movement, unfinished Lines, and absent-minded Expressions - of which, this performance had in abundance - it cannot account for the fact that Tamar clearly only knew about little more than half of the routine!

Tamar & Val
DWTS Season 21, Week 09 -
Showstopper Night

And as we all watched, and winced, and groaned at the sight of Tamar fudging and slurring her way through the Steps of the dance, the disastrous scene laid before us could not help but beg the question:  If Tamar didn’t have her routine down by the show’s DRESS REHEARSAL, doesn’t it stand to reason that she just NEVER WAS going to get it right? 

DWTS S-21 Week 08: By The Numbers

DWTS – Season 21, Week 08 SCORES:

The DWTS Judges give their scores.

Bindi & Derek

Foxtrot

“Grace Kelly” by Mika

28 (10,9,9)

Tamar & Val

Paso Doble

“Born This Way” by Lady Gaga

28(9,9,10)

Alexa & Mark

Argentine Tango

“Viva la Vida” by Coldplay

25 (9,8,8)

Andy & Allison

Viennese Waltz

“Isn't She Lovely” by Stevie Wonder

22 (8,7,7)

Alek & Lindsay

Contemporary

“Holding Out For A Hero” 
by Ella Mae Bowen

25 (9,8,8)

Nick & Sharna

Contemporary

“Can't Help Falling In Love”

by Haley Reinhart

30 (10,10,10)

Carlos & Witney

Salsa

“Valio la Pena” by Marc Anthony

27 (9,9,9)

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Dance-offs:

Carols & Witney VS. Bindi & Derek

Jive

“Travelin' Band” 
by Creedence Clearwater Revival

Winners: 
Carlos & Witney

Judges Score:
Carlos, Carlos, Carlos

Public Vote
Bindi (64%)

Tamar & Val  VS. Alexa & Mark

Cha-cha

“Fun” 
by Pitbull feat. Chris Brown

Winners: 
Alexa & Mark

Judges Score:
Alexa, Tamar, Tamar

Public Vote
Alexa (76%)

Andy & Allison VS. Alek & Lindsay

Samba

“Lean On” 
by Major Lazer & DJ Snake feat. MØ

Winners: 
Andy & Allison

Judges Score:
Andy, Andy, Andy

Public Vote
Andy (54%)

Tamar & Val – Review of DWTS Season 21, Week 08

DWTS Season 21, Week 08

REVIEW:  Tamar & Val

Dancing the Paso Doble to “Born This Way” by Lady Gaga, Tamar Braxton and her Professional partner, Valentin Chmerkovskiy, presented their Week 08 routine.

Tamar & Val

DWTS Season 21, Week 08 -

Icons Night

“ … If whoever gets mad at the fact that I say that I’m a wonderful dancer, then you get mad at that,” said Tamar during her pre-dance Rehearsal Package, while wiping away seemingly non-existent tears from her face.

(Well, yeah, Braxton, presumption tends to bug people in general, especially when that presumption is based purely, on one's inner delusions of grandeur …)

“But that’s what I have to tell myself to keep going.” She finished with a careless shrug.

<Blowing out a long, low whistle> Wow!  Way to spin the facts there, I am almost impressed!

You could have just gone along and acted as though last Week never even happened and it would have been less insulting!  And watch it, would you Tamar?  You’re slinging so hard and fast you’re gonna hit people with what you’re shoveling; but then again, maybe that was your intent all along …

It seems to me that anyone with half of a brain could spot your vain, self-obsessed attitude from Week 01 of the competition; but, folks just kind of hoped that you would get over yourself somewhere along the way … Chalk up yet another bitter disappointment from the not-so-“solidified” “contender” known as Tamar Braxton.  However, now that we have successfully navigated our way through that uncomfortable Bull Pasture and back into the Ballroom, Tamar’s Paso-ing was most excellent, 

Tamar & Val

DWTS Season 21, Week 08 -

Icons Night

with overall improvement displayed in both her Frame and Lines, 

Tamar & Val

DWTS Season 21, Week 08 -

Icons Night

although her Facial Expressions still left a great deal to be desired.

Tamar & Val

DWTS Season 21, Week 08 -

Icons Night

Tamar & Val – Review of DWTS Season 21, Week 07

DWTS Season 21, Week 07
REVIEW:

Tamar & Val

Dancing a Foxtrot to “People Are Strange” by The Doors, Tamar Braxton and what must be her very embarrassed Professional partner, Valentin Chmerkovskiy, submitted their routine.

Tamar & Val

DWTS Season 21, Week 07 -

halloween Week

Once again barely meeting that seemingly-elusive (for Tamar, at least) Halfway-Decent standard for Ballroom Dancing, Tamar’s lazy execution, unfinished Lines, and “My Cat Just Died”, disconnected, numb-faced expression, “solidified” her inept, Sub-par ability in this competition.

Tamar & Val

DWTS Season 21, Week 07 -

halloween Week

“Last week’s scores [of all 10’s, though I still cannot understand why] solidified the fact that I am a contender in this competition!” declared the self-impressed Ballroom Blight known as Tamar during her pre-dance Rehearsal Package.  “… I can pick up my steps in three hours,” - Can you now? – “and messin’ up is not gonna work anymore, it’s about bringing it!” – Is it really, Tamar?  Then what, I ask you, was this lethargic slop you were dancing, because what it wasn’t was a contending Foxtrot …
“… It’s hard for me to say without coming across being shady; but, I’m probably the best dancer in the competition.”  Tamar went on to reveal of her inner delusions.

Oh!  Oh, you poor, misguided thing!  I am so sorry, why I had no idea that this is how you saw yourself!  No wonder you haven’t been able to learn squat and progress since the start of this Season!  … With or without the allotted three hours …
<Tsk, tsk, tsk>  So very tragic.

DWTS S-21 Week 07: By The Numbers

DWTS – Season 21, Week 07 SCORES:

The DWTS Judges give their scores.

Bindi & Derek

Argentine Tango

“Cry Little Sister” by Gerard McMann

30 (10,10,10)

Tamar & Val

Foxtrot

“People Are Strange” by The Doors

24 (8,8,8)

Alexa & Mark

Paso Doble

“Hora Zero” by Rodrigo Y Gabriela

27 (9,9,9)

Andy & Allison

Paso Doble

“The Beautiful People” by Marilyn Manson

26 (9,9,8)

Hayes & Emma

Waltz

“Once Upon A Dream” by Lana Del Rey

26 (8,9,9)

Alek & Lindsay

Viennese Waltz

“Haunted” by Beyonce

25 (9,8,8)

Nick & Sharna

Argentine Tango

“Bring Me To Life”

by Evanescence feat. Paul McCoy

24 (8,8,8)

Carlos & Witney

Paso Doble

“O Fortuna” by Carl Orff

28 (9,10,9)

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Team Dances:

Team Nightmare

Freestyle

“This Is halloween” by Danny Elfman

30 (10,10,10)

Team Who You Gonna Call?

Freestyle

“Ghostbusters” by Ray Parker Jr.

28 (9,10,9)