Episode 37 Strictly - It Takes Two

Hello. Welcome to Tuesday's programme. A glittering line-up for

you. You can't stop the beat. They've survived their second

dance-off. Comeback kids Mark and Iveta are here. According to Len,

they created a whole new dance on Saturday. Here to talk us through

their wamba is Patrick and Anya. And to take a closer look at the

weekend's choreography in fine detail, Karen is back. Plus, a brand

new little treat for you, Janette and Pasha are here to teach us the

cha-cha-cha. Charming. This is Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two.

From London, this is stict stict stict. Please welcome your host, Zoe

Ball. -- Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two. Please welcome your host,

Zoe Ball. Hello and welcome. So, after weeks of pleading with Iveta,

Mark was finally allowed to dance the dinosaur in Blackpool. The

dance-off saw them on the verge of extinction. Here's a reminder of

what happened. It was a show-stopping performance. Full of

entertainment. I know it's entertaining, I do know that. I'm

really looking for a lot more sort of technique. The kicks could have

been sharper, but I had a wonderful time watching your performance. Big,

brash, noisy and fabulous to watch. Well done.

Amazing. I loved the dance. Craig's allowed his opinion. I'm not

bothered because I loved it and had a great time. Judges, it's time to

decide. I would like to save Fiona and Anton. Mark and Iveta. Mark and

Iveta. Mark and Iveta. Back from the brink, it's Mark and Iveta. Can I

just say, it was such a joyous jive. I wanted it leap off the sofa and

join in. How disappointed were you to be in the bottom two again? To be

honest, I expected to be in the bottom two, so I was all right. I

genuinely was looking forward to do it again. That was the first

thought. So much fun. When you went out to do it for the second time,

did you enjoy it more? What was going through your head? That I

wanted to do the best dance, because if our last one I want to go for it.

It was one of those things where everything went right. We had a

ball. You looked like you were loving it. I think that's all part

of the competition. Iveta, the five from Craig, because the nation booed

and hissed at that point. What do you make of that? Everybody Els

gives you eight and -- else gives you eight and then he gives you

five? I think he was aiming for ten and took out the wrong one.! It's

OK. We all make mistakes. She is going to crush him. I love it.

Darcey and Bruno commended you on the fact you are dancing more. You

had worked so hard? Absolutely. I think I would qualify this, there

were only a couple of moves from Hairspray. It was all stuff that

Iveta had choreographed. That was one of the difficult things, because

I was used to doing it one way and then suddenly new moves. It's one of

the toughest dances for me, but I was less tired doing that than doing

the rumba, because I loved it. Of course, the dinosaur. Yes. So

exciting. We all leapt with joy. How hard has it been to convince her to

let Dow it? I got the look the first time. What? When we do this? I

suggested putting it in a different part for the judges and she said,

"Let's do it there and we can both do it." It was fabulous. We leapt in

the air. It does seem it's not just the choreography that you might

battle over in the training room. Look at this. I want to eat healthy,

but there is never any food left for me. I'm going to say this to the

nation - she steals all the grapes. Would you like some fruit before

it's gone? Further to the grape incident, look how many stauburys

are left -- strawberries are left. OK, we dance. She eats all the

fruit. I was going to show you the blueberries, but there isn't any

left. You don't want to eat that much. One of them is all squished. I

love the blueberries. Gone! APPLAUSE

We just love it. You make us laugh so much. Right, we have something

for you, Mark. This is for you. This is your Strictly No Iveta. Stay

away. Brilliant. It's not yours. Don't even look at these. She can't

stay away. You mentioned the knee braces. You have never spoken about

them. What can you tell us? Well, on the second week of rehearsals I for

a cartilige in both my knees and I went and got MRIs and I had steroid

injections and decided to carry on. I feel privileged to be doing the

show. I didn't want the sympathy vote, because it's a positive show

and people don't want to know, so I push on and do the best. It's been

difficult for Iveta, because she has to choreograph around me not lifting

and things. She has been absolutely amazing, as ever, getting me

through. I don't want to dwell on it, because it's not an excuse. I

want to be remembered for doing the best I could do. Wonderful. After

the jive as well. You are great. We'll talk about the foxtrot, which

you are doing this week. How is it coming along? It's coming! That's

all she'll give me. I'll tell you what it was like today. After the

jive and a long drive home on Sunday, the foxtrot was lots of me

going, "I can't do that." The rise and fall. I'll just do the fall for

now. Lots of, "I can't." She'll have you absolutely perfect for the

weekend. How are you going to avoid the bottom two? Shirtless. At last.

I was thinking you go shirtless and I'll got bottomless. What a

combination that will be. Good luck this week. Thank you. Thank you.

Mark and Iveta. APPLAUSE

You may have watched Strictly for years and seen very many

cha-cha-chas but are you able to recognise the basics? As a treat now

for all of you, we'll look at the dance in more detail, going through

the history and the moves step by step.

Who better to teach us about the what what what, than a pair of Latin

lovelyies. Hayley from Cuba and -- hailing from Cuba and Siberia, it's

Pasha and Janette. Come on!

APPLAUSE Janette and Pasha! Come an join us.

I think I'm more in love with Janette than Pasha. Welcome. Thank

you so much for that. Amazing watching you dance. Where does oh

come from? Actual l it originated in Cuba, which is where I'm from. It

came from mambo. It's a really slow tempo and there is a triple beat,

one, two, three and they call it the triple mambo step. That is where it

worked up to it. How did it get from Cuba to Strictly? There was a man a

London-based teacher, but French and he was Monsieur Pierre. He went to

Cuba in 1952 and saw the triple step being danced in rumbas and he liked

it and enjoyed it. He brought it back and taught it as a separate

step and called it the cha-cha-cha. He brought all the Latin dances to

England and that's what you see now. Erer. Pasha, where does the name

come from? Some people say it came from the sound of the shuffling feet

on the floor. What what, what what what -- cha-cha-cha, cha-cha-cha,

but I think it comes from the sounT of this instrument. It's the --

sound of this instrument. It's the guerro. You want to move. I love the

way you handle that. The eagle-eyed among you at home may have seen that

the cha-cha-cha has been performed more than any dance on the show, 111

times to be precise. Why so? Cha-cha-cha is one of the easiest

dances as far as beat and steps. When I started dancing that was the

first I learnt. Little Pasha. That's where it all begins, people. I love

the history lesson. Shall we go and try some steps out? Let's do it.

Everybody watching at home, this is especially for you, so get up off of

the sofa. Your own private lesson. Where do we start? We'll start with

the basic, so it's really simple. All you'll do is take three steps

starting with the right foot. One, two, three. Do it again starting

with the left. One, two, three. If you change the count to the words,

it's cha-cha-cha, cha-cha-cha. Right before you do the third step you'll

come forward with your left foot forward, back and then again one,

two, three and go back with your right. Back and so when you put it

together it looks like that. Cha-cha-cha, forward back,

cha-cha-cha back and forward. Cha-cha, forward back. That is the

basic. I love it. What can you do as a pair, Pasha? We have lots of

wonderful steps, but before you attempt anything, just move away all

the furniture and things which can fall, because it happens often.

Especially when you're involved. Go. The step we call New York. Very

simple. Very effective. Most of the time and every single dance on

Strictly you can see it in the cha-cha-cha. We'll start with the

chassis. It's cha-cha-cha. Now we'll hopefully find a mirror in front and

turn to the mirror and say hello. Fix your tie if you have one or your

skirt if you have one and then you are going back facing one another

and do another chassis. Three steps, cha-cha-cha. Turn away and we look

good and come back. Cha-cha-cha. You are going forward open, three steps

in and place and open away and three steps in and place. I think we got

it. Let's try it with music. I'm excited. OK, calm down. The basic.

Cha-cha-cha. Cha-cha-cha. And New York. Cha-cha, open. New York. Is it

something you have to do at a local dance school? You don't. You can do

it at a nightclub or in the kitchen at home. As long as it's a song that

have four beats and almost all the songs have four beats you can dance

it. Such as this one. We know this one. It's Blurred Lines by Robin

Thicke. We should finish with a freestyle.

Give it up for Pasha and Janette. APPLAUSE

I tell you what, if you're going to learn, learn from the best. A little

hop there. Running man. A spirited performance. Now to the Copacabana.

Patrick and Anya proved music and fashion aren't always the passion.

They suffered another wardrobe malfunction, but it wasn't enough to

stop them receiving their highest Latin score yet. Here's a reminder.

The variety of the step and rhythm and everything was close to

perfection. It's just unfortunate that it all went horribly wrong.

That could have been dazzling. You came out and gave us a fast, pure

technical samba, but it was superb. It's a wamba. You are a terrific

dancer. Please believe me. A little malfunction with the dress, but we

got through it. Thank you for being there. We're a team. The next one is

going to be better. Oh, I hope so. Welcome Patrick and Anya. They keep

showing that. Me shunt show that. Hello samba pants. Get you. Bruno

said you were one of the best male samba dancers we've ever had on the

show. Wow. I know. Wow. It must make you feel great? Fantastic. I can

skip away and dance for the rest of my life. It was absolutely awesome.

Bruno said it was almost perfection. How frustrating was it to have that

wardrobe moment? We'll talk about it quickly and get it out of the way.

We'll never talk of it again. It's called the hop. How frustrating. It

would have been a mishap like choreography-wise I could forgive

myself, but that, it was just, I don't know. It was absolutely - you

know what, I didn't know how it happened. I just know it happened

and I got out it. It felt like it was ten years. It was only two

seconds, but thank you so much for coping with it and getting back just

like that. It sounds a bit like being an actor, if something goes

wrong you have to carry on. I'm always prepared for anything that

can happen. It was so brilliant, because you couldn't actually see,

but you were looking and you could see and Patrick wept, "I know what's

going on." Then you picked up. Impressed. It happened in Blackpool.

We'll move on. Craig said it's the kind of dance he would like to see

again if you got to the final. Would it be a dance that you would choose

to do again if given the chance? It's one of the ones I enjoyed. I

might. If you've forgotten. We have to start thinking of these things.

Patrick feeling the pressure of the competition. It's getting tough, but

it seems to be getting to you a little in training. I had struion

overload, I -- struion overload, I -- struion -- instruction overload,

I believe, so I had to let go: Bum, bum, bum, and then it's bum, bum,

bum. Flick, flick, go to the the side. Have I missed anything out?

No. See. It's all going on. It's so much fun. This week, it's the

Viennese Waltz. Obviously, not had loads of training, but how is it

going so far? Honestly? Yes. Between just us, I haven't really started

anything yet. Just the frame. I don't know why I'm laughing, because

we aren't started. Practising my frame. We talked a lot about it, so

I told him what to expect and he asked me about the lifts and he'll

lead and it's yes, yes, no. You are so good at all and you've had your

highest score for the American smooth and you got 37. With this

Viennese Waltz, do you think you can top that? I I think what we'll go

for is to bring the same focus and energy and level of quality with

frame and foot work. -- footwork. Agree with her? Absolutely, I agree.

We'll bring all of that to that. Can you feel the competition hotting up

now? Oh, yeah. Everyone is going for their A star. Absolutely. In the

end, but it's a competition so people are realise that one of us is

going to go, so it's that realisation. I love it. Everyone is

starting to fight. So exciting. Please go and try and practice now.

You are not getting out of it. Good luck this weekend. I know it will be

amazing. Patrick and Anna. APPLAUSE

So, Saturday saw a downpour in Blackpool as it was raining tens.

Hallelujah. I love that. Here to give her expert opinion on the

highest-scoring weekend in the competition so far is Karen.

Welcome, Karen, everybody. You look amazing. It's a paso shirt. What an

amazing weekend in Blackpool. I loved every minute. We'll get stuck

in. First, Susanna and Kevin and their paso doble. Did I hear tens?

Did I hear tens? You said, didn't you? You said last week you wanted

to see tens and look at that. Three come along. I think they're secretly

list tong the show. -- listening to the show. What made it so

impressive? The piece I've shown you here, it's what we call the twist

and turns and they are fantastic. She doesn't do one or slow, but she

does them fast timing and five of them. Normally we just get one, but

this was incredible. She absolutely attacked the move. Attacked the

dance. What I love most of all are beautiful professionals and on a car

we have cruise control, but then the button I never push is sport. You

watch the professionals, they're upping their game and Susanna kept

up with Kevin the whole way. Not the difficulty with the choreography,

but the pure energy that the professionals have got and someone

like Susanna here kept up the whole way. Fantastic. Would you like to

have seen four tens here? Technically there were a couple of

things she was doing wrong, but I'll keep that secret. I was happy with

the score she got. Natalie and Artem. Joint highest score. We have

seep Charlstons with Sophie and Abbey. This is the highest yet. Was

it your fast and what -- favourite and what did you love about it? It's

been all about the Charlston. So many different characters as well.

This was a Josephine Baker. Absolutely wonderful. She looks

like, but look at this. What I want you to look at here. Artem is still

and Natalie was doing the moving. What we normally do, we will do the

complex moves and we let the celebrities stand still. But what we

asked here, we said come on really push Natalie, get her to be doing

the choreography and what she is doing there was fantastic. What we

are seeing all the way through the routines now, she is doing the

complex work and Artem is presenting her and it's fabulous. He's sitting

back. Show your stuff. Abbey and Aljaz, the quickstep. Three tens and

only a seven from Craig. Would it have been a ten from you? Dare I

say, I may for once be the female version of Craig. Oh, Lord, there

can't be two. I agreed with him. Let me explain why. Someone like

Susanna, we said to her you have to correct that top line. She has

corrected it. Someone like Ashley, you have to get the head in the

right position. We have said now for several weeks, you have to get the

gapping. They've got to get it together. It's been picked up and

now and Craig has said clearly, gapping is one of the early things

we want you to master. It's later on with the movement, but gapping

should have been achieved earlier on. That said, at Blackpool, a

quickstep on that dancefloor t was a sense aingal dance. -- sensational

dance. But the more you gap the easier it is to move. Got to get

them together. She is so tiny, it's kind of hard. Patrick and Anya and

the samba. Bruno said close to perfection. Len said it was only the

stationery samba walk that -- stagsary samba walk that --

stationary samba walk that let them down. What is it? I'll have to take

to the floor. Three steps. We close the feet and replace the weight and

we come back again. It's literally that. And you've got the count. What

happened and what we'll look at here with the piece that I've got, it

actually went wrong earlier on. As he started. This is all going wrong.

It feels like he's behind. He's trying to catch up, but then

deliver. He was meant to do two and it all wept wrong for him there.

That said, again, a sensational dance. Great music. But, again,

nit-picking now on the technique and choreography, cue not afford to make

missteaks. -- mistakes. Sophie and Brendan, the only critique was the

top line. Would you be in agreement? I love this. I absolutely loved it.

We were talking about the smallest of things that went wrong. There was

so much right with this, this week. Incredible. They dance from hold

across the table and then they've got to recover. We are talking about

the gapping. Look at this. Look at this, nothing there. They're

together, but still getting that amazing movement across the floor.

Absolutely lovely. Craig picked up on the hand position. Simple. For

the lady, there is an indent in the man's arms, if you place it there it

looked graceful and finishes the line. If it steps over it looks like

it's hanging on. Everything else was perfect. Ashley and Ola and the paso

doble. The joint highest score of the series for him. Disagreement

from the judges about his focus. Do you feel he maintained it

throughout? He maintained it throughout, so much so I was sat

there going and when it erupts like that and it catches you. His

concentration was so deep. You see we have the two dancers here and

there is no way he doesn't even look like the celebrity there, but a

great dancer and keeping up with the energy and he's keeping up with the

team of dancers with him and I absolutely love that. A lot of that

is through the concentration in the intensity. Any time you are insecure

you look down or you can lose your strength, but he maintained that

throughout. Loved that and loved the choreography. Well done Ashley. Ben

and Kristina. American smooth. Darcey was particularly impressed.

Press arge lift into arabesque. What is one of those? -- pressage lift

into arabesque. What is one of those? Look at this. How they are

coming together. Into this lift, but what I love, straight up into a

beautiful hold. We spoke earlier on about keeping a good frame. Here we

go. Here is the arabesque position. He's in pressage. Beautiful lines

through the body, giving her confidence to extend into her move.

Anything like that, if he had made a movement wrong she would have been

up there wobbling and she is at full extension and so is he and it was

lovely. I think from the man's point of view, to pick up how he was

recovering back into hold, that is where he's improving and improving.

I love it. Keep it up, Ben. Mark and Iveta and the jive. Their highest

score, but Craig says he wants to see more technique. Do you agree

here? Yeah. I think, I watched this performance and we always say when

you judge you must never judge with expectation. I'm going in and I had

a little expectation and I was thinking it was going to be hard. He

pulled me in. But it was through the strength of his dancing. He had flat

feet and we have all heard because of his knees, but he had swing in

this and the lovely swinging action and finishing of the arms and

relationship between the two. They are unstoppable. They are like Mr

and Mrs. I love this relationship. So much going for them. It's the

detail that actually kept them there on the night. Well done to them and

glorious as always, Karen Hardy. Thank you to all the guest.

Tomorrow, I'll talk to Abbey and Aljaz and Susanna and Kevin and

we'll look forward to next week's dances with Mr Ian Waite himself.