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We're already hooked on the partnership between Jan and Tatyana. Sprinkle in some Alfonso, and you've got some ballroom MAGIC! In this video, Alfonso Ribeiro gave us some insider info on the crafting of Tatyana Ali's Dedication Night dance on ‘DWTS.’
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00:00It certainly wasn't steps. You know, dance is an emotional thing. You've got to allow your body
00:04and everything to feel this. To me, it's always about story, right? Regardless of whether it's a
00:11salsa and it's fun, right? But there's still a story has to be told. Moves are just moves
00:18without story, without emotion, without connection, right? And so what I came in with was a story.
00:28Here's the story that I think we should tell. And it adjusted, of course. There were things that
00:33didn't end up being like, it was like, you know, there were ideas and different things that we went
00:37back and forth on. Like, is he portraying James Avery and he's having a daddy-daughter dance and
00:44then he leaves her and then I get to come in and I get to fill the role that he
00:51had leading up to
00:52that moment, right? And so some of that was still there, right? Like he left and I came in. He
00:57wasn't Uncle Phil, but he was obviously the idea of that. And then making sure that at the end,
01:02we allowed for a moment for James Avery to not be after the dance, but in the dance. And so
01:10that
01:11his portrait coming up on that wall is part of the ending of that dance. And so those are some
01:20of the
01:20the contributions. It was really, it certainly wasn't steps, but it was just connecting the dots.
01:26So that's what we wanted to do. And we can see the next video. And so we'll see the next
01:27video.
01:27Bye.

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