The Power of Strictly Come Dancing

It's fantastic to have Strictly Come Dancing back on the TV again, and great to see so much talent this year. I really enjoyed watching week 1 as the professionals had choreographed routines that included lots of 'basic' dancing steps.

It's amazing how Strictly Come Dancing really inspires the danczers:-
The Hold / Topline - over the last couple of weeks I've noticed a significant improvement with how many of my danczers are holding themselves, the comments from the judges have really made them take note and focus on how they're looking. A massive thank you to Len Goodman for clearly showing his disappointment with some of the Strictly Celebs toplines on Saturday, it was difficult to watch so many of the women just hanging off the men.

Footwork - I'm chuffed to bits that there's more focus on the 'footwork' in the early stages of Strictly Come Dancing competition. As Karen Hardy so perfectly described it - 'footwork is the foundation of great movement'. As I keep saying to my danczers I can tell when their footwork is poor without even having to look at their feet- a danczer with good footwork just looks balanced and controlled!!!

Arms and Finess - I must say that I sat chuckling to myself when I watched Strictly this weekend, it was almost as if Darcey had been part of my Friday morning class the day before. I spent most of the morning focussing on finess and completing arms "you've got 2 beats to finish that arm movement so make sure you use it", "extend the arm action right to the finger tip"

It's great that the Judges are talking about areas that I focus on in the classes, as then it's another reliable source of the same information- yippee.

I can't wait to see how the next couple of weeks turn out with the Strictly Class of 2012. It's hard to say who's going to win at this point, but there's definitely lots of contenders - exciting times.

I'm just in the process of finalising the information for the new term commencing in November. The beginners information went online last week, and we've already filled over half of the places - the Power of Strictly Come Dancing!!!

Happy Danczing.

Zoe x