Dance It to the Next Level

November 20, 2017 2:17 PM

What better way to share your love of video games and your love of dance than by combining them? (SLYT)
posted by ErisLordFreedom (4 comments total)

I really enjoyed that. Thanks for the post!
posted by Caduceus at 4:16 PM on November 20, 2017

This was from the Season 19 Dancing With The Stars; "Sadie" is Sadie Robertson, better known for her appearances on "Duck Dynasty". She'd made it all the way to the finale - and this was her big freestyle number, and was really cute! However, she was up against Alfonso Ribiero, who'd already won over the crowd a few weeks earlier by giving in and doing The Carlton, so she was a runner-up. But if you consider that Alfonson was trained from the time he was a kid, and Sadie...presumably wasn't, then this is really impressive!

This comment brought to you by an old roommate who was a Dancing With The Stars nut and got me into it this particular season despite myself.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 4:32 PM on November 20, 2017 [3 favorites]

I love that she was wearing sensible shoes.
posted by The corpse in the library at 4:58 PM on November 21, 2017

She actually had her parents screen all the costumes first so they could nix anything too "revealing", and also had a similar policy about the dance choreography not being overtly sexualized or touching her in certain places.

So I heard that at the time - it was a sort of trivia point that came up in one episode early on, and I admit that I rolled my eyes a bit and was thinking "yeah, this isn't gonna go well."

But then she started busting out things like this and this and this.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 7:09 PM on November 21, 2017