Nrdsb4

I can't look at Melissa Gilbert without cringing. WHY WHY WHY do celebrities think it is a good idea to plump up their lips?! I haven't seen one that looks good...all too often they look like cartoon characters. I just don't understand it.

Question:

If there was a contest to judge the best pro dancer who would win?

Best male pro?

Best female?

jshain

If you were to look at their U.S. and International performance results, it would probably be Tony Davilani and Karina Smirnoff. I didn't Google this so I'm only speculating. I believe Tony has won top competitions for Cha-Cha and Karina has won competitions for Latin as well. I don't think Tony can TEACH someone to dance the way Derek Hough can, so Derek is by far my favorite male dancer on DWTS. And if you look at teaching ability rather than dancing ability for the ladies, than I would probably give the nod to Cheryl Burke, even though I personally don't like her dance ability in anything other than the Tango or possibly the Paso Doble. My favorite female dancer is probably Kym Johnson. I think Mark Ballas may have the most athletic ability of any dancer (Derek being his closest rival) but he doesn't partner very well, always "outshining" his partner week to week, year after year.

soozievt

How can Roshon be in jeopardy? He has been very strong. Odd.

churchmusicmom

Anyone else think the singers are not as good this season as in the past?

Youdon'tsay

Yes! I was thinking the same thing about the singers.

In terms of dancing, I like Karina and Derek.

Nrdsb4

[quote]Anyone else think the singers are not as good this season as in the past? [/quote}

Really? A couple of times tonight I remember thinking the singers sounded really good! Oh well, what do I know.

I recognize one of the singers as a long time back up singer for Michael Jackson.

Nrdsb4

Tonight they were partners for the "pro" dance, and there were indeed quite spectacular.

Interesting trivia: Derek moved to London (as a teen, I think) to live with the Ballas family as Mark's parents were master teachers. And now the Ballas brothers and Derek are all on this show. Kind of cool.

Batllo

Roshon's fan base doesn't watch DWTS, they watch the Disney channel.
They need to start asking their parents to vote for him.

ellemenope

You have to remember that the producers can put anyone they want in the bottom 3 so long as one of the choices is the actual lowest vote getter (unlike American Idol where the bottom 3 are the 3 contestants who got the lowest vote total). They did say that Gavin and Martina had the lowest combined scores. No mention of Roshon's total score.

Now that Martina is out, I can start to parcel out my votes. If Roshon can keep dancing well, I'll have to throw him some of my votes.

My favorite dancer is Derek because he choreographs such brilliant routines for his partners. Tony's choreography often lacks pizzaz and flare...

ellemenope

He's a great dancer though...

I'd like to see how well Tristan can do with a younger star. So far, he's had Nancy Grace and Gladys Knight. Who's next? Betty White?

eyemamom

I think many times a dancer will go farther if they have a good choreographer. By far Derek has the most creative routines. Mark just turns me off with his mugging to the camera and seeming to want to outshine his partner, but he does push the envelope a lot. He's just so darn unlikeable.

I think Karina or Kym are the best female choreographers.

I love Tristan, but like a pp said - he's gotten older partners.

The pairings are always annoying. Derek never gets anything but young beautiful talented dancers. He'll never get a Bristol, Florence, etc Just once I'd like to see him paired with a clunker to see how he does.

I'm so glad that there are no professional dancers this year a la mya and nicole.

I think Martina was the right choice to leave.

ellemenope

Roshon and Katherine the popera singer both have awfully good moves...they seem almost professional.

Hard to know who will go home tomorrow...the talent is so even this year! I always pick out my top 4 and I then don't care in which order the others leave. So far, I pick Roshon and Katherine to go the distance. Maybe Donald Driver, the football player...

I'd like to see William Levy stay to do a few more Latin dances. His samba tonight was amazing!! And his story about leaving Cuba was touching...heck, there were a lot of touching stories, some real 4-hanky ones...

patsmom

The Clicker - Jaleel White reportedly gets into vicious fight with 'Dancing With the Stars' pros

This is pretty bizarre. I wonder if it has anything to do with Jaleel's odd tearing up last night when he was being interviewed by Brooke. I know that everyone had a sad story and got a little weepy at times, but Jaleel was supposedly emotional over playing Stefan? Huh?

Youdon'tsay

Call me a cynic, but even last night my dh and I were saying his tears didn't seem sincere and were over the top. I wonder if the crying wasn't premeditated because he knew the story would get out and he'd try to blame his bad behavior on the "highly emotional" week.

Poor, Kym. She always seemed quite nice.

soozievt

Wow, I didn't know that story about Jaleel when I watched last night. Actually, I thought he was expressionless during his dance and really not that good, whereas I thought he was good in previous episodes. From that news story, I think it will be hard for him to do well with Kim, because partner dancing requires a collaborative relationship.

I think the show is very good and everyone has done quite well. Last night, I'd say the ones that were the least impressive to me were Jaleel, Gavin, and Gladys. However, I love Gladys and I can't imagine her leaving this soon and she has done very nicely in previous dances, in my view.

Melissa Gilbert improved this week. Even though they wear dance outfits with sex appeal, etc., I thought her extremely short and skimpy outfit was too much for a woman her age.

Roshon is a natural dancer! Katherine too.

William Levy's dance last night was great.

I enjoy watching Sherry.

I am not sure I have her name correct, maybe Elizabeth? The pretty youngish woman with long brown hair? She was excellent last night.

I am amazed that a football player like Donald could dance as well and with emotion as he did last night. Very nice.

Some teary back stories last night!

Lots of good dances last night, I thought, not just the comments above.