What you like in a contestant?

What is the most important thing when you judge a performance or contestant

• Choreography
  
• Versatility
  
• Correct use of Dance form
• Overall entertainment
• Expressions
• Energy level
• Effort given by the performer
  

We are Elite people, so we obviously look for good dancing skill & expressions! 😳

^^^ I agree.. Okay now.. changes to - *British accent* ---- Since I belong to The Elite Club.. so based on OUR prerogation, we love and appreciate the dancers with good technicality in whatever routines they perform .. with good emotions and variations as the show progress. 😳

Originally posted by: Its_Sash

We are Elite people, so we obviously look for good dancing skill & expressions! 😳

Thanks for the reply. I think same can be expressed without the Sarcasm?

Originally posted by: AnewPost

What is the most important thing when you judge a performance or contestant

Versatility
Correct use of Dance form Overall entertainment Expressions Energy level
• Effort given by the performer
  

Don't worry about the sarcasm dear, you'll get used to it soon. It will not stop, but I'll still give a best shot from my side. 😉

~ Expressions, for me, dance starts with its last letter, the E of expressions
~ Passion for the dance, for any dance
~ Smooth transitions and well executed movements
~ Excellent choreography, the kind Terence makes up and executes
~ Take everything in his/her stride attitude: Willing to accept mistakes and challenges - Dharmesh and Shakti
~ Wanting to always get better, and proving it - Kunwar Amar
~ Always moving, a bit like Siddhesh, even when not dancing (shows the sign of a dancer who loves what he's doing)
~ Versatility is not as important to me as trying is. Once a dancer is willing to try, I already very much appreciate the effort.


Of course, DID looks for the best dancer, which should have these qualities, and much more. But DID also has huge expectations by everyone, where trying or growing is not always enough. You've got to be the best, almost always, in almost every which way! 😉

Originally posted by: MihirB

Dude no need to write all the things down, just write down one bullet - "Dharmesh"

He is the combination of all the points mentiond above!

I would avoid discussing individual dancers here. I just want to get a feel of what people on this forum looks for while seeing performance. Some talk about versatility and some about entertainment. There are some who knows about dance forms better than others and feel disappointed when dance forms are not used correctly. I give a lot of importance to over all effort put by a performer even if she/he doesn't know that dance form. If I have to take names then Kruti is the example. she was a classical dancer but she put all the efforts to learn these modern dance forms. Amrita is there, you can see the amount of efforts she puts in her performance. Yes a lot of people gets irritated because of her personality but then we are not judging personality here.

- versatility (but only if the act is good, like if someone just cant do classical or hip hop, but does one anyways and the performance is bad, then i dont like that type of versatility)

Originally posted by: sneha0601

Don't worry about the sarcasm dear, you'll get used to it soon. It will not stop, but I'll still give a best shot from my side. 😉

~ Expressions, for me, dance starts with its last letter, the E of expressions
~ Passion for the dance, for any dance
~ Smooth transitions and well executed movements
~ Excellent choreography, the kind Terence makes up and executes
~ Take everything in his/her stride attitude: Willing to accept mistakes and challenges - Dharmesh and Shakti
~ Wanting to always get better, and proving it - Kunwar Amar
~ Always moving, a bit like Siddhesh, even when not dancing (shows the sign of a dancer who loves what he's doing)
~ Versatility is not as important to me as trying is. Once a dancer is willing to try, I already very much appreciate the effort.


Of course, DID looks for the best dancer, which should have these qualities, and much more. But DID also has huge expectations by everyone, where trying or growing is not always enough. You've got to be the best, almost always, in almost every which way! 😉

Oh ya I missed the most important Choreography in my bullet points. Yes I love the choreography of Terrance and Remo's choreography was also good in few dances where he made Saajan and Punit brothers. I liked only 2 dances from Geeta. Jack and Amrita Duet and Dharmesh and Binni's yeh raate duet. I am assuming Dharmesh's churake dil mera was not choreographed by Geeta. We never know we may get plesantly surprised if Geeta's contestants get to work with Terrance. It would be nice to see more exchange rounds.

it would have been good Anewpost, if they did more mentor exchange round, seriously these contestants could learn so much from each of these mentors. and DID is such a huge opportunity for these contestants to learn from such talented choreographers, they should utilize it to their best ability