Get to know our brave dancers.
This week we asked one half of the group if they had any previous experience when it comes to dancing, what are they most nervous about, gossip from the rehearsals and how they describe their partners.
JAMIE
1) Do you have any previous dancing experience?
– No, I have no experience in dancing. That’s if you don’t include dancing in a nightclub haha.
2) What are you most nervous about on the night?
– I can’t say that I am nervous, but then again that may all change on the night.
3) Do you have any funny stories from rehearsals so far?
– Honestly, every rehearsal is funny because half the time I don’t know what I am doing until June tells me to stop and do it her way. I tend to add moves in that are clearly not disco !!
4) Describe your partner in three words?
– Excitable, spirited, strict.
NEISHA
1) Do you have any previous dancing experience?
-I took modern/ballroom dancing as a child but no experience in the last 15 years!
2) What are you most nervous about on the night?
-Honestly, the training video. There’s nothing I hate more than the sound of my own voice!
3) Do you have any funny stories from rehearsals so far?
-The first time Jamie lifted me I screamed so loud (I hate heights!!!)
4) Describe your partner in three words?
-Creative, tenacious, eager
LYNN
1) Do you have any previous dancing experience?
-Neither of us have danced …EVER! And it kinda shows, but we’ll keep trying our best to deliver a Bollywood!
2) What are you most nervous about on the night?
-Joe not turning up and me doing a solo routine, though I’m not quite sure how the lift would work!
3) Do you have any funny stories from rehearsals so far?
-We have discovered neither of us can count to the beat of 8, June may need to cut the track again in to 7’s or 9s! ?
4) Describe your partner in three words?
-Jon Travolta’s Twin
GARY
1) Do you have any previous dancing experience?
-Nothing major. I did a Strictly last year and I’ve done one of two classes of hip-hop.
2) What are you most nervous about on the night?
-Forgetting the routine and messing up on stage.
3) Do you have any funny stories from rehearsals so far?
-Other than how awkward me and Brenda got for our videos. No funny stories. But every class is always a laugh.
4) Describe your partner in three words?
Fun, positive and very, very patient haha
GILLIAN
1) Do you have any previous dancing experience?
I was an Irish Dancer from the age of 4-12 and also performed Jazz & Tap from the age of 10-14. Other than that, terrible moves on Coppers dance floor!
2) What are you most nervous about on the night?
As the dance is really fast paced, I am nervous about missing a step and messing up the rest of the dance. Hopefully we should be rehearsed enough by the 9th!
3) Do you have any funny stories from rehearsals so far?
We have a lot of lifts in the dance, some of which have gone terribly wrong where I land up on the ground! My attempt at doing a cartwheel had both June (our choreographer) and Darryn on the floor laughing. Needless to say we’ve dropped that from our dance routine!
4) Describe your partner in three words.
(Much) Taller than me.
MARIA
1) Do you have any previous dancing experience?
Yes but only in the field of Irish dancing. I danced and competed for 19 years and hung up my dancing shoes in 2016!!
2) What are you most nervous about on the night?
Remembering my steps and being able to really get into the spirit of the Paso Doble, it’s all about the character!
3) Do you have any funny stories from rehearsals so far?
I think our funniest stories come from times when we’re trying to perfect the most difficult parts of the dance, and one swing in particular has drove us to hysterical laughing during our many practices together!
4) Describe your partner in three words.
Funny, kind, smiley!
CHIARA:
1) Do you have any previous dancing experience?
Yes I have previous experience in dancing but I have been dancing for 4 years Lindy Hop.
2) What are you most nervous about on the night?
I am not nervous I am fine ?
3) Do you have any funny stories from rehearsals so far?
Fabrizio is really strict with me when we try the steps
4) Describe your partner in three words.
Strict, lovely and attentive to details
EIMEAR:
1) Do you have any previous dancing experience ?
None at all except a cheesy girls night out on a Sat night when anything goes.
2) What are you most nervous about on the night ?
Completely forgetting the routine when I walk out on stage or the music finishing before we finish, it’s happened!!!
3) Do you have any funny stories from rehearsals so far ?
We have been enjoying every week June is great and we have laughed mostly EXCEPT the free week when we got to come in without June …. absolute carnage we couldn’t get it together each blaming each other’s timing we won’t need a judge on the night if that happens again we will take it into our own hands!!!
4) Describe your partner in three words ?
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