This week’s watch is a cheeky 1989 jive routine from widely decorated ballroom duo Shirley and Corky Ballas:
And courtesy of offspring Mark Ballas, this week’s Dancing With the Stars delivered a strongest entry from potentially the season’s strongest star, UFC fighter Paige VanZant. VanZant brings a useful edge, having studied contemporary and jazz in her youth, but the difficulty of this Tina Turner tribute jive shows how well she’s adapted to ballroom technique, with advanced figures like the spinning tollgate — seen also in Shirley and Corky’s dance — standing alongside gymnastic cartwheel flourishes and some solid kicking and flicking:
