My Take on Pros as Contestants

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Oye_Chup_Kar

@Oye_Chup_Kar

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Posted: 11 years ago

#11

Originally posted by: Endurance
This is Channel's fault that they approach Professional Dancers as contestants and with all due respect if professional dancer wont be on the show the level of dancing will suck big time...

So the Major reason of approaching Professionals is to increase the level of Dance...

THIS!!!!!!!!!!

But i wonder why everyone fails to understand this! If JDJ was filled with immature dancers only, it would've been hell boring! Just imagine the seasons without Isha, Lauren and Shakti/TJ..it would've been snoozefest! Contestants like Lauren, Shaks, TJ takes the level of dancing/difficulties/challenges very high making the show much more entertaining to watch!

PS. I don't know whether you follow DWTS or not? The same happens there too, even in DWTS they always rope in 2-3 pro dancers to increase the competition level. And this very season, Olympic GOLD MEDALIST Ice DANCER Meryl Davis won with Maks.

Heck she's a Gold Medalist Dancer who competed with a girl with NO LEGS (Amy Purdy) but no one whined her victory cause she was the best dancer!

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StolenKiss.

@StolenKiss.

Dazzler

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Posted: 11 years ago

#12

Originally posted by: Oye_Chup_Kar

THIS!!!!!!!!!!

But i wonder why everyone fails to understand this! If JDJ was filled with immature dancers only, it would've been hell boring! Just imagine the seasons without Isha, Lauren and Shakti/TJ..it would've been snoozefest! Contestants like Lauren, Shaks, TJ takes the level of dance/difficulties/challenges very high making the show much more entertaining to watch!

PS. I don't know whether you follow DWTS or not? The same happens there too, even in DWTS they always rope 2-3 pro dancers to increase the competition level. And this very season, Olympic GOLD MEDALIST Ice DANCER Meryl Davis won with Maks.
Heck she's a Gold Medalist Dancer who competed with a a girl with NO LEGS (Amy Purdy) but no one whined her victory cause she was the best dancer!

Couldn't have said better👏👏

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charminggenie

@charminggenie

Stunner

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Posted: 11 years ago

#13

Originally posted by: sugarfoxtrot

Can't comment for sure on Shakti but if Lauren was hired on JDJ's American counterpart then there was no way in heck she would've been contestant. Lacey Shwimmer, a very popular SYTYCD alumnae who had lot of fans voting for her to reach the top 4 of the competition went onto become a Pro on DWTS, same is the case with many popular contestants that the audiences voted.

@Sugarfoxtrot - in DWTS , Juliana Hough , a Pro dancer went on to do movies and she was called back on the show to judge . Now if she who has trained alongside Mark and Derek was not called back to be a pro but to judge them , this was not because she had more dancing supremacy but because she was popular outside dance- her movies. Similarly Lauren did a movie ABCD and Shakti a daily serial . So they clearly branched out from their pro role and had their own identity. Hence they became more of celebrity than just Pro-dancer like Juliana or like Jen Grey - Baby from Dirty dancing is a Pro dancer but she was called as a celeb coz she ventured into movies too.

Mouni, is a trained classical dancer for years - would she be termed as a pro too? Sophie has expertise in Bharatnatyam , ballroom dancing from before - won't that make her a pro too?

The format is to have a diverse range of participants. They let audience connect with the one they feel a connection. Could be a dancer or a popular tv star. Thats the way it works everywhere. Marks are solely given on the basis on the capabilities of individual dancer.

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