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Dancing With the Stars Finale: Audiences Value Good Solid Dance Skill Over Fame and Big Personality

Tonya Plank | Posted 11.26.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Ballroom Dancing, Lance Bass, Reality TV, Breaking Entertainment News, Latin Dance, Ballet, Warren Sapp, Brooke Burke, Cody Linley, Dancing With the Stars, Lacey Schwimmer, Who Won Dancing With the Stars Season 7, Brooke Burke David Charvet, Brooke Burke Dancing With the Stars, Dancing With the Stars 2008 Winner, Dancing With the Stars Season 7, Entertainment News
Tonya Plank

Personally, I love that Brooke Burke won. Overall she had by far the best technique of all of the contestants, yet she has no known movement background.

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Dancing With the Stars Needs to Do Something Other than Add Social Dances and a Non-Ballroom Judge to Spice Up the Show

Tonya Plank | Posted 10.22.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Ballroom, Michael Flatley, Reality TV, Yulia Zagoruychenko, Hanna Karttunen, Breaking Entertainment News, Latin Dance, Riccardo Cocchi, Mimulus Dance Company, Ballet, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Modern Dance, Jerome Robbins, Julianne Hough, Keigwin and Company, Alvin Ailey, Slavik Kryklyvyy, Misty Copeland, Twyla Tharp, Marcelo Gomes, Cody Linley, Dancing With the Stars, Len Goodman, Entertainment News
Tonya Plank

Is it just me or is this the most boring season thus far of Dancing With the Stars?

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Poor Rocco DiSpirito: Food and Dance Just Don't Mix

Tonya Plank | Posted 10.08.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Lance Bass, Misty May Treanor, Latin Dance, Karina Smirnoff, Toni Braxton, Warren Sapp, Brooke Burke, Maurice Greene, Rocco DiSpirito, Ballroom Dancing, Food, Cody Linley, Susan Lucci, Dancing With the Stars, Blackpool Dance Festival, Cloris Leachman, Entertainment News
Tonya Plank

It's so true though: the lives of food gourmet and dancer are just diametrically opposed; they're two different pleasures that don't go together.

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The Largely Self-Taught Dancer Wins America's Collective Hearts: So You Think You Can Dance Season Finale

Tonya Plank | Posted 08.08.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: So You Think You Can Dance, Reality TV, Katee Shean, Breaking Entertainment News, Latin Dance, Courtney Galliano, Ballet, Ballroom Dance, Joshua Allen, Nigel Lythgoe, Hip Hop, Adam Shankman, Mary Murphy, Mia Michaels, Contemporary Dance, Twitch, Joshua Allen Winner, Who Won So You Think You Can Dance, Entertainment News
Tonya Plank

Joshua Allen was the rightful winner this season. He has everything: creativity, understated charisma, an endearing personality... I really don't know if there's been a winner I've felt is so deserving.

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So You Think You Can Dance Final Four

Tonya Plank | Posted 08.01.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: So You Think You Can Dance, Ballroom Dancing, Jason Gilkinson, Reality TV, Hip Hop, Nigel Lythgoe, Latin Dance, Tony Meredith, Adam Shankman, Tyce DiOrio, Breaking Entertainment News, Mary Murphy, Jazz Dance, Contemporary Dance, Melanie LaPatin, Viennese Waltz, Entertainment News
Tonya Plank

This show really outdoes itself each week. I think this week was the best ever choreographically.

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So You Think You Can Dance Top Eight, and Desmond Richardson!

Tonya Plank | Posted 07.19.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: So You Think You Can Dance, Ballroom Dancing, Reality TV, Desmond Richardson, Dwight Rhoden, Hip Hop, Nigel Lythgoe, Breaking Entertainment News, Latin Dance, Dance on TV, Ballet, Entertainment News
Tonya Plank

This show outdoes itself each week. I was in a blissful state of shock Wednesday to see the breathtaking Desmond Richardson helping to choreograph.

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So You Think You Can Dance Top 10, Alvin Ailey, and Bollywood

Tonya Plank | Posted 07.11.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: So You Think You Can Dance, Ballroom Dancing, Reality TV, Nigel Lythgoe, Hip Hop, Breaking Entertainment News, Latin Dance, Bollywood, Contemporary Dance, Dance, Alvin Ailey, Krumping, Entertainment News
Tonya Plank

Wow, what a week -- I agree with Nigel: "brilliant job."

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Have Yourself a Ballroom Blast at the Manhattan Dancesport Championships This Weekend

Tonya Plank | Posted 06.01.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Vaidotas Skimelis, Victor Fung, Yulia Zagoruychenko, Riccardo Cocchi, Latin Dance, Tomas Mielnicki, Manhattan Dancesport Championships, Katusha Demidova, Ballroom Dancing, Arunas Bizokas, Jurga Pupelyte, Anna Mikhed, J.T. Thomas, Dancing With the Stars, Joanna Zacharewicz, Jose Decamps, Blackpool Dance Festival, Dancesport, Entertainment News
Tonya Plank

This weekend's Manhattan Dancesport Championship will be a chance to celebrate the athleticism and artistry of dance and just have a rollicking good time in the process. .

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