I like their SD too but sometimes I feel like Deja vu
I was pleasantly surprised by the choice for the rhumba.I was actually afraid we'll get to hear one of the classic skating rhumbas.It's jazzy and it suits them perfectly.I want to see how they interpret it on ice, and especially the two very fast paced sambas.
Really strange, because they talk before, they will have all new in next season.....
One thing i notice - this dance is very "dancing", even second lift is in tango style. But its not innovated.
Maybe they will show all new in FD?
As far as Tessa and Scott;s first samba in their FD is concerned, no disrespect to Lacey and Danny from SYTYCD show, who also used this music, but watch what these two prodancers, Yulia and Maxim are doing with it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgJcPu5Wxrk
OK, this might bedifficult to do on ice, but were they ever hot...
I was pleasantly surprised by the choice for the rhumba.I was actually afraid we'll get to hear one of the classic skating rhumbas.It's jazzy and it suits them perfectly.I want to see how they interpret it on ice, and especially the two very fast paced sambas.Hiphip chinchin is perfect for beginning.
I guess nobody can accuse them for staying in their comfort zone this season.
I am personally not as pleased as you are, only because I cannot accept Diana Krall's "Temptations" a "latin" music. It is not latin.There are endless true latin rhumbas to be choose from which have not been used in ice dancing ever before.
For example, look at this routine, done by the same gorgeus dancers Yulia and Maxim i posted before, they dance to a Jose Feliciano song, now that is what i can call "latin":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1JpU0CVEeU
IDon't get me wrong, I am looking forward to see what they do with "Temptations", as this is also unchartered territory for them, but please do not call it "latin"!
Well, if the rhythm is there (it is ), then it's a rhumba. It's just not a standard ballroom piece.The rhythm is there, but the percussion is generally light (? not exactly the right word ) and jazzy.
Hip Hip Chin Chin is hardly a standard samba either,and in it's own way ,it's just as jazzy as Temptation. Here, the percussion is practically everything, but the instruments used, and all of the different riffs and accents , while keeping within the samba rhythm ,are not really typical of samba.The difference is, it seems to have been adopted big time by the ballroom community.
I like Temptation. and like this jazzy feeling. And Hip Hip Chin Chin with Temptation is one style (IMHO)
Nothing wrong with those, just to make myself clearer, I was just anticipating something else when I heard they will do latin, I enjoy spanish flavoured latin dances more.
Now, what I will be looking for is how close they will come to my standards I am setting up for them from here on. I will compare them to what T/D did with "History of love (1994), because that is for me the gold standard in rhumba ( I like that more than bolero btw).
And when it comes to the last latin FD which won world title (Gri/Pla 1996), I hope they exceed that by a wide margin, because if you look at that free dance today, mothing is exceptional there aside their speed.