It’s the Evan vs. Nicole show on ‘Dancing’So "Dancing With the Stars" is coming down to Evan Lysacek and Nicole Scherzinger.
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Yes, Niecy Nash had a terrific night on Monday with both her surprisingly light-footed quickstep and her participation in the team cha-cha, and Pamela Anderson had a good showing with the Viennese waltz. The judges are suddenly enthralled with the improvement they see in Chad Ochocinco,
trollbeadsand Erin Andrews has the sexiest chemistry on the show with pro partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy.
But when all is said and done, it's going to be the Evan Versus Nicole Show, as has been obvious since the first week. And while Nicole is unquestionably the more skilled technical dancer, it's looking more and more like Evan might grab it away from her.
If indeed Nicole can't win despite her high skill level, why? Her first problem is that she has no way to improve. She was already a professional dancer when the season started,
pandora beads wholesaleand there are no surprises left in her bag of tricks. (Her surprise was being so much better than anyone else out of the gate.) The only thing the judges can ever find to take away from her is Derek Hough's unconventional choreography, and the audience certainly isn't going to suddenly be impressed when the choreography becomes more conventional.
It's not that the show isn't trying to leave her room for improvement. In fact, the struggle to hold down her scores has grown downright silly. Carrie Ann Inaba watched Nicole's waltz,
trollbeadscalled her the best dancer the show has ever had in 10 seasons by far and then awarded her … a 9 (as did the other judges).
Viewers probably aren't buying this "Nicole isn't any better than anyone else" narrative, however. It's very hard to win without momentum, and Nicole has no way of getting momentum.
Evan, on the other hand, started out strong and has been steadily improving. He had a surprisingly difficult time learning how to use his feet like a dancer and not like a skater,
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Not only that, despite many years of performing choreography in the context of skating, he hasn't always hit the style. dead on, as was the case last week when the judges felt he was too "lyrical" and "balletic.
trollbeads" Evan's tango this week, on the other hand, received the first perfect score of 30 in the entire season — something even Nicole's never had, despite being (you'll recall) the best dancer in the history of the show.
