The Greatest Dancer Episode 5
What an amazing opening sequence with all of the acts involved with their team captains, certainly opened the show with a bang.
The viewing public get to decide who will be âThe Greatest Dancerâ, as well as a prize of ÂŁ50,000 a performance on the next series of strictly come dancing awaits the winner of the show.
The Live Challenge Shows, what are these challenges? Creativity, Technicality, Versatility, each week each act will be set a brand new challenge which they have to incorporate into their choreography, They can get to interpolate these challenges within their performance anyway they want. The challenge can be from a theme to a specific prop, could be anything from a chairs to boxes and the team captains have no control over which challenge they get.
âJames and Oliverâ first challenge was a staircase and when asked, what is the first thing that comes into your mind the answer being Broadway. Matthew gave them a tough choreographed routine with lots of tricks and kicks. Their routine scored a 88.2% with the audience.
Alex, Ryan, Gilly, Reece otherwise known as âFrobacksâ first challenge was classical, this put the boys in a predicament because this didnât fit with their normal urban street style. The audience really enjoyed their interpretation of the challenge with a massive 95.7% score. The choreography remain truthful the Frobacks style being inventive, strong and with a sense of fun.
Company Jinks being a commercial dance group face the task of elevating themselves to the next level and braking through the ceiling that will make them something extra special, the challenge set for them was Chairs. In rehearsal one member came crashing to the floor, gashing his head with blood oozing from his for head. This programme is really about blood sweat and tears.
The routine performed to the track from X Ambassadors âUnsteadyâ was challenging to say the least, with chairs constantly being moved with precision and intricacy without the feeling of it looking messy. The audience scored 88.2%
The Globe Girls challenge was sport. Seeing the boys out of drag was a shock within itself, although their auditions was done with a tongue firmly in their cheek, they what to be foremostly to be taken seriously as dancers. That was proven with an 80.9% rating from the audience.
Prospects Fraternity challenge was colours with the first part of the routine dancing to the track âA Sky Full of Starsâ by Coldplay and finishing with MNEK âColourâ (Cahill Remix) This group of young people are full of stars and covered the stage with a colour beyond any rainbow scoring 95.5% with the watching audience.
Dane Bates Collective is an amazing group of girls whose first challenge was doors. This performance was packed with emotion with a simple stage set, but had a fantastic visual impact, closing the doors to shutout our insecurities then bashing them down again. The audience did not shut them out with a 93.5% approval, even Simon Cowell approved.
KLA from South Wales first challenge was carnival, considering their tender years they showed and preformed a tremendous mature polished performance. Packed for of movement twists turns lifts and coordinating sequences. The 90.8% of the audience agreed with what I saw.
Ellie the 14 year old dancer from Livingston Edinburgh is creative talented and hard working. The challenge set for her was Fairy Tale. Normally you would associate fairy tales with light, innocent portrayal of this subject, but not Ellie, it was dark mystical and sinister, although Cheryl would have preferred a more less sinister approach. Being a sole performer meant Ellie had to move around the stage so that she could command that space, it would have been so easy to get lost, a very impressive performance with a 95.7% audience rating.
17 year old Harry and 18 year old Eleiyah a contemporary duo from Liverpool challenge was Doctor Who. What a powerful performance with these two with split jumps with extensions pirouettes and summersaults all done with emotive technicality with the highest score of the night of 96.4% they are going to go a long way in this competition.
World renowned Rambert danced live to Freya Ridings âlost without youâ whilst the public voted for their favourite act of the night, with the act with the least amount of votes going home, which on this occasion was The Globe Girls.