WEBVTT - Danielle Dances! (Week 4) 0:00:13.680 --> 0:00:18.680 Hello, It's Danielle Fischel checking in. Podcaster, TV director and 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:24.079 mom of two, most commonly recognized on these streets as Topanga. 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:27.280 But right now I am appearing on your television sets 0:00:27.320 --> 0:00:30.440 once again as part of Dancing with the Stars Season 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:34.800 thirty four, immersed as a competitor in the world of 0:00:34.880 --> 0:00:39.160 ballroom dance. I've gone from not even having one minute 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:42.560 of dance experience unless you count dance in at a wedding, 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:46.519 so now abandoning my family essentially to practice for what 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:49.480 feels like twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:55.080 alongside my assigned pro partner, Pasha Pashkov, and throughout the journey, 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:57.280 I'm keeping you up to date with everything that is 0:00:57.320 --> 0:01:00.480 going on behind the scenes in the form of this 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:04.600 here podcast, Danielle with the Stars, all in the hopes 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:07.160 of being able to add the title of Len Goodman 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:12.039 Mirror Ball Trophy winner to my Wikipedia right behind Chef, 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:15.240 which I never was. That may not be on my 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:17.160 Wikipedia anymore, but it used to be one of my 0:01:17.160 --> 0:01:21.880 favorite little tidbits. Guys, you won't believe this. We are 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:29.280 making an exclusive announcement about week five dedication night. You 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:32.399 are not going to want to miss this. Who will 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:35.679 I be dedicating my dance to? What song am I 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:39.160 dancing to? It's going to be very special and you 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:42.640 will find out in just a little bit. First though, 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:46.240 I am hot off the press line for week four, 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:51.200 marking one month of competition, and tonight was Disney Night, 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:54.720 so you may notice I'm not in my wardrobe tonight. 0:01:55.440 --> 0:01:57.240 In the past, I've come off the press line, I've 0:01:57.320 --> 0:01:59.560 run in here, and I have started this here podcast. 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:03.080 It occurred to us we are making other people and 0:02:03.160 --> 0:02:05.960 other departments wait while I had weight to take off 0:02:06.000 --> 0:02:10.560 my costume, wait to cut. They sometimes sew my hair 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:14.840 into itself, so like today for Disney Night, I was 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:18.160 Blue from the Jungle Book, and we put my hair 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:21.640 in the shape of cute little bear ears in order 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:25.040 to make sure they don't go anywhere that they're super secure. 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:29.720 They literally take a needle and thread and they sew 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:34.440 your hair into itself. And then at the end of 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:36.880 the night, I can't take that down. I'm not dressed 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:40.600 in gentsen with a pair of scissors by my hair. Insane, 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:44.000 Absolutely not. So the hair and makeup department stays to 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:47.120 help me get out of my wardrobe and hair and 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:49.880 makeup stuff, not just me, all of the competitors. But 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:52.680 so anyway, I have changed, I have done the press line. 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:59.000 Disney Night was amazing. I thought all the performances were spectacular. 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:02.960 The opening night choreographed by the one and only Mandy Moore, 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:06.200 guest of this podcast, that you guys absolutely loved. I've 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:09.160 heard so much great feedback about her episode. She is 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:12.000 a true gem of a human and an absolute talent. 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:15.480 The pros all love working with her. There's just such 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:17.440 a difference working with her than there is with working 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:21.800 with other choreographers, so she is spectacular. Opening number was amazing. 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:24.480 It's one of the maybe the best Disney Night I've 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:26.560 ever seen as a fan of the show. So I 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:29.000 don't know what your thoughts were, but I think it 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:33.640 was top tier. I danced a quick step with Pasha too, 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:36.800 I Want to Be Like You the Monkey song from 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:40.720 the Jungle Book. I've always loved the Jungle Book. I 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:45.200 love this song. It's got those iconic little moments. I 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:47.600 want to walk like you, talk like you, be like you. 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:51.440 From the moment Pasha and I started talking about Disney Night, 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:53.840 what did we want to do? The Jungle Book was 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:57.240 right up there at the top of my list for possibilities. 0:03:57.480 --> 0:04:00.000 And the minute I said it, Pasha was like, oh, 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:01.640 oh my gosh, I want to be like you. Is 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:06.200 a perfect quick step, and I said, great, let's do it. 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:08.640 I don't know anything about the quick step, but let's 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:12.440 do it. Turns out the quick step is quick. It's 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:18.960 also ballroomy. That's not a word, but I'm saying it anyway, 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:22.880 which means lots of frame, you know, Like Pasha describes 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:25.920 it as looking like bananas. So much banana talk this 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:29.680 week between Pasha being King Louis the Ape and me 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:34.680 being Blue the Bear, and our frame being like opposing bananas. 0:04:34.680 --> 0:04:36.960 So Pasha likes to take two bananas and put them 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:39.599 back to back, and that's what our frame should look like. 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:43.000 I have a bit of a janky neck. I don't 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:45.200 have a great neck. For one thing, it's very short 0:04:45.200 --> 0:04:48.120 and squatty. For another thing, it cracks very easily and 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:53.000 it gets very stiff, and like, I don't have a long, 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:56.960 graceful giraffe neck, and yet you have to for a 0:04:57.000 --> 0:04:59.840 lot of these dances. So I'm really still working on that. 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:02.440 And this dance is a bit of a challenge because 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:05.560 you go from bouncing around very quickly to with very 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:08.599 little time having to be long, graceful and elegant and 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:12.000 like a banana. So anyway, I didn't think I was 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:15.960 going to love this dance. I freaking love it. It's by 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:18.479 far my favorite dance we've done thus far. We've done 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:21.720 a tango, a fox trot, the chat scha, and now 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:25.320 the quick step. The quick step is by far my favorite. 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:29.000 I don't feel like Chachag I've given a good shot 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:32.120 to because I was injured that week and I couldn't 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:35.800 feel my kneecap floating around and all the fluid, and 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:39.120 so I feel like I would have enjoyed that dance 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:41.240 more if I wasn't so worried about whether or not 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:45.240 my leg was gonna hold up my body. But no 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:47.880 matter what, the quick step is definitely my favorite. It's 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:51.720 bubbly and fun, and Pasha and I got to show 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:55.920 a really fun, super playful side of our personalities, which 0:05:55.960 --> 0:05:59.080 is just kind of the dominating factor of our personalities. 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:01.920 We have so much fun together. Every day, although we're 0:06:01.920 --> 0:06:04.960 working really hard, is spent just like laughing and telling 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:07.599 each other backstories for what's going on in this dance 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:12.200 and you know, like I remember Week one with the tango, 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:14.640 there was a little bit of a feeling of like 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:20.000 trying to contain some of my smiling, joyful nature because 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:23.000 a tango was supposed to be a little intense, and 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:25.080 I didn't do a great job of containing that in 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:28.000 week one. But in this week, Week four quick Step, 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:29.680 I didn't have to contain it at all, and that 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:31.760 just felt really nice. I just got to smile the 0:06:31.800 --> 0:06:35.599 whole time and look at my friend who is my 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:38.480 choreographer and dance partner, and we just got to have fun. 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:41.960 So it was a really great week. I'm a little 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:47.440 disappointed that our scores didn't improve, obviously, I'm thrilled that 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:51.560 our scores didn't go down. I feel like that would 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:55.720 have been really disappointing. But I was really hoping that 0:06:55.760 --> 0:06:57.680 tonight was going to be the night that I saw 0:06:57.800 --> 0:07:01.680 my first eight and it didn't happen yet, So the 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:04.240 good news is I still have that to look forward to. 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:10.480 We were told for this night, Disney Night, that we 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:14.040 could pick any song from the Disney catalog, and that 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:19.080 specifically they were hoping for a focus on Disneyland because 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:24.440 tonight's Disney Night was in celebration of Disneyland Resorts seventieth celebration. 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:28.400 Disneyland has been around for seventy years. The Jungle Cruise 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:32.520 opened at Disneyland on day one, so the Jungle Cruise 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:35.480 has been around for all seventy years, which is another 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:38.440 reason we thought it was a perfect movie and song 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:42.200 to choose for tonight. We got to go to Disneyland 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:45.520 to shoot some of our packages and the car picked 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:48.000 us up super early in the morning. We got down 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:51.440 to Disneyland, we got to ride the Jungle Cruise. We 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:54.520 got to eat a doll whip. So Pasha, you guys 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:57.200 have heard me joke about how much Pasha likes rice cakes. 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:02.640 Pasha also loved more than anything if like for his 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:07.120 number one favorite sweet food is ice cream. He loves 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:10.320 ice cream, specifically ice cream, not gelato, although there are 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:13.320 some gelatos he likes, but he really likes ice cream. 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:20.360 His favorite milkshake is a pineapple milkshake. Pasha has never 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:25.000 had a doll whip. He's been to Disneyland a bunch 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:28.440 of times. For some reason, he's never tried a dole whip. 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:32.360 He didn't even know they existed. So I was thrilled 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:35.840 because I love me some food, and I love me 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:41.600 some Disney Park food. So I was thrilled to introduce 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:44.079 him to a doll whip they had, I think it's 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:49.720 fairly new, something called the Pineapple Upside Down Sunday and 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:54.880 it is a pineapple upside down cake with doll whip 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:59.520 soft serve and a caramel drizzle. And he said he 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:00.959 was gonna or toward that. He was like, yeah, that's 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:03.680 definitely what I'm getting. And I was like, oh, just 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:05.959 why don't you just be a purist and get the 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:09.559 little like classic one like I'm gonna get. And he's like, no, 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:12.160 I want this one. And I was like, okay, ah, 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:16.200 he ordered, He ordered right. It was really good. The 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:19.640 cake was a nice little texture. It was great. Anyway, 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:21.640 I'm talking too much about food, so you can tell 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:25.280 I'm probably hungry. So that was really fun. I got 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:26.839 to introduce him to that. Now that's going to be 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:29.840 a staple of every time Danny and Pasha take Kiki 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:32.800 to Disneyland, They're going to have to get the Pineapple 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:35.440 Upside Down Sunday. We got to ride the Jungle Cruise, 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:37.920 which was super fun. We also got to ride Pirates 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:41.000 of the Caribbean, which was really really fun. Those are 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:45.120 two of my favorite rides there. That was great. And 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:48.359 then when we left we had to go after Disneyland, 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:50.120 so the car picked us up at five forty five 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:53.079 in the morning. We got down there around seven forty 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:56.480 five in the morning. We wrapped around ten forty five, 0:09:56.720 --> 0:09:59.640 and then we had rehearsal at one. From one to five, 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:02.400 Pasha and I were starving. It's the only thing we 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:06.280 had eaten was dole whip and a banana. We lots 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:10.120 of bananas on this show, and so on the way 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:14.880 home we grabbed turkey legs and French fries, and Pasha 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:16.840 and I sat in the back of the car and 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:22.120 devoured turkey legs. We had grease all over our face 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:23.960 and all over our fingers, and at the end of 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:27.200 our rehearsal we went to go record the dance and 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:29.360 I got real close to the mirror for the first 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:32.240 time and realized I still had turkey grease on the 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:34.120 edge of my nose. It had been there for four hours. 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:36.920 And not only did he not notice, he didn't tell 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:41.920 me and he didn't notice. So I wore an incredible 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:47.640 dress that day. I've been following this fantastic talented woman 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:52.120 named Kelsey. Her Instagram handle is at rope Drop Design 0:10:53.000 --> 0:11:01.920 and she takes vintage, officially licensed Disney Wares, sheets, comforters, 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:06.280 you name it, and then she upcycles them, which is 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:08.520 a term to say that she takes something old and 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:12.280 vintage and turns it into something new and modern. And 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:17.440 she took a jungle Book children's bed sheet and she 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:24.160 turned it into a fabulous, adorable puff sleeve dress. Like 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:26.720 the puff sleeve is like making all my aerial dreams 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:32.200 come true. And the jungle Book print is so cute. 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:35.160 It was the perfect length, it fit me perfectly. She 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:38.760 asked for my measurements, sent them to her, and she 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:41.959 made it in rapid time, sent it to me and 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:45.359 it was so cute. And then as a little homage 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:48.760 to Boy Meets World and to Tapanga, I paired it 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:52.480 with a pair of red cowboy boots. And if you're 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:55.120 a fan of Boy Meets World, you know that Tapanga 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:58.840 war red cowboy boots in the Disney World episode of 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:02.599 Boy Meets World. Kind of that famous photo of me 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:05.160 in the white shorts and the red and white striped 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:09.000 mock turtleneck crop top with the red cowboy boots, and 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:12.119 so I wanted to give a little nod to Tapega 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:15.480 and to Boy Meets World with that outfit. And yeah, 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:17.880 then we went to rehearsal and rehearse the rest of 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:20.360 the day, and you guys got to see the dance tonight. 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:26.160 It was so great. It was our first real fast 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:29.720 dance all week long. So when we normally do something 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:31.800 kind of fast like the chat Shaw, we slowed it 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:34.520 down like we would rehearse it. And Pasha has an 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:36.400 app that he can play the song and then slow 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:38.920 it down and play it at eighty percent speed. And 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:41.920 so to make sure that my brain computes all the 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:43.480 steps that I need to do, we start at like 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:45.319 eighty and then we jump up to eighty five, and 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:46.920 then we go to ninety and then eventually I get 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:49.199 to one hundred percent speed. This dance we never had 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:52.520 to do that with, which is really great. I was 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:54.760 able to do it from at one hundred percent kind 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:58.240 of from the beginning, and rehearsals were really fun. I 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:01.480 was nervous that I wasn't gonna have the stamina. It's 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:05.320 so much jumping and so much hopping, And on day one, 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:08.480 Pasha had no idea what he was in for Was 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:10.280 I gonna be a natural at this dance? Was I 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:13.080 gonna be terrible at this dance? And on the first 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:17.839 day he was like, Okay, let's practice this move and 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:19.800 then he like walked me through them. And it's the 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:23.760 part it's the Lindy Hop part, which is where in 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:26.640 the middle of the dance, we like I step back 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:28.320 on my foot. It's called a rock step and then 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:31.200 a kickstep. And he was like, the combination is a 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:34.160 rock step, a kickstep, a kickstep, a rock step, and 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:37.840 then it's kickstep, kickstep, kickstep, rock step. And he shows 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:40.720 it to me and I'm like okay, and then he 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:43.760 takes my hand and I do it, and I do 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:47.280 it pretty well, like kind of right off the bat. 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:52.960 And you should have seen the relief on Pasha's face 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:58.800 and his whole body was like, oh, okay, okay, all right, okay, 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:01.319 you can do this. And I was like, yeah, I 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:02.679 think I can do this. He's like, no, you have 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:04.679 no idea. This is real make or break, Like, this 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:06.600 is a real make or break thing. If you can't 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:08.560 do this, you're just not gonna have a good quick step. 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:12.920 And I picked it up pretty fast. It is interesting 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:15.640 to me that that is the part that then tonight 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:20.320 the judges said I made a mistake, and Bruno said, no, 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:22.960 you know, you know. He's like, you know, you know 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:25.320 the mistake that you made, and I wanted to I 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:27.680 thought to myself, like, do I know the mistake that 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:36.600 I made? Because I definitely know when I'm off anytime 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:40.080 we've rehearsed the dance, I am the first person to 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:42.120 be like, oop's missed a step. And if I don't 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:44.600 know exactly what the step is, I still I'll know 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:46.480 the area where I'm off. I'm like, yeah, it was 0:14:46.520 --> 0:14:48.720 something over there near the rock step or the kickstep, 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:51.240 like did I gather? Did I not rock step? Like? 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:54.080 What did I do? And I didn't feel like anything 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:57.720 was off, but we went back and watched it. So 0:14:57.760 --> 0:14:59.720 somebody recorded it on the monitor for us, and we 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:04.040 went and watched it. And although I'm not technically off, 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:08.240 there is a moment in the rock step kickstep where 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:11.520 Pasha and I are not perfectly SYNCD, which means I 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:15.000 was probably half a beat late on one of my kicks. 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:18.000 I didn't even miss the kick. It wasn't like I 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:21.640 missed a step. It's just that the timing wasn't perfect. 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:25.400 So that's what I think is the mistake that they're 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:28.160 talking about during the Lindy Hop. And on the one hand, 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:32.400 I'm bummed that that kind of what feels like a 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:36.440 kind of a minor mistake was something that they all 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:39.120 really noticed and felt like was kind of a big deal. 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:42.440 And on the other hand, I'm really happy that with 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:46.320 a like difficult dance with all kinds of frame and 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:48.400 all the stuff about my shoulders we've talked about and 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:51.320 all of that, that like that's the thing they commented on. 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:54.360 That means everything else was really great. And I'm trying 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:56.480 to find all the silver linings where I can so 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:58.800 that I continue to stay motivated to just learn and 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:01.960 become better. We after week, so that's kind of where 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:04.360 I'm at. We got three sevens, which is the same 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:06.880 score we had last week. I'm still really looking forward 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:11.240 to getting an eight. Maybe next week will be that week. 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:16.280 Today's camera blocking started with not a good performance for 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:20.120 me from the beginning. I know how important counting is 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:23.120 while I go through the dance. It helps me stay 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:25.200 directly on beat. It helps me know exactly what my 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:28.600 steps are. If you hear me counting out loud in 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:32.440 my rehearsal videos, you'd be like, what even is she saying? 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:34.920 And I can give you an example, like the dance starts. 0:16:35.280 --> 0:16:38.120 You hear the four clicks. There's like click click, click click, 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:40.640 and at the top of the dance, it's one beat 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:42.880 per move because I'm doing my feet, so it goes 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:44.800 so one two, three, four, five, six seven eight one 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:47.560 two three four five, and then Pasha pops up and 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:50.160 then from there we just count odds, so it's five 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:55.920 seven one three five seven, one three five seven. Then 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:59.320 we run down the stairs and then I'm no longer counting, 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:02.600 and after we run down the stairs, we go too slow, 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:05.840 quick and quick slow quick and quick step pop step 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:10.560 pop gather and then you go rock kick kick rock. 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:12.919 I That's what I'm saying in my head as I go. 0:17:13.160 --> 0:17:14.560 Not only does it tell me what I'm doing, but 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:17.639 it helps keep me on beat. This morning, for my 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:20.439 first camera blocking, even though I know how important counting is, 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:23.240 I was like, I'm gonna try this one without counting 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:25.840 it and just see like what kind of performance I 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:28.600 get out of it. And then I learned, you know 0:17:28.680 --> 0:17:30.359 what happens when you don't count it in your head, 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:33.080 you get not so great performance, and there were a 0:17:33.080 --> 0:17:35.760 couple of places that I was off, and we did 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:39.120 it a second time, significantly better the second time, and 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:43.280 then we did a dress rehearsal, and in the dress rehearsal, 0:17:43.760 --> 0:17:48.359 I definitely messed up the Lindy Hop. I did step 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:52.600 pop step pop gather, gathered my feet, and then I 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:55.960 skipped my rock step and I went from gathering my 0:17:56.040 --> 0:17:59.840 feet directly into kickstep, which meant that I was completely 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:03.400 off time with Pasha, and he like grabbed my hand 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:05.040 in a way that let me know I was off, 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:07.359 and by the time we got to the next kickstep, 0:18:07.400 --> 0:18:09.560 I was back on with him. But I definitely made 0:18:09.560 --> 0:18:12.120 a mistake during my dress rehearsal, which is a little 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:15.960 bit of a bummer because that's your last and true opportunities, 0:18:16.000 --> 0:18:18.560 your first and only time you're doing your dance in 0:18:18.640 --> 0:18:21.760 your costume, with your hair and makeup completely done, so 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:24.479 it's the closest you're going to have to doing it 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:28.680 for the show, and yeah, you really want that one 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:31.320 to go well. So it did go well. Everything else 0:18:31.400 --> 0:18:33.439 was great and it was overall fine, but I did 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:36.040 screw up the Lindy Hop there for sure. Pasha was 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:39.200 so happy with the way tonight's dance went, and honestly, 0:18:39.760 --> 0:18:44.240 like every week, everyone's super supportive. This week, the amount 0:18:44.320 --> 0:18:47.840 of people who came up to us and said, oh 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:50.840 my gosh, this is by far your best performance, this 0:18:50.920 --> 0:18:53.640 is your best dance. This is like everyone was saying 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:56.719 it. It was very sweet. And after the performance, everybody came 0:18:56.800 --> 0:18:58.879 up to me and was like, that was so great. 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:04.240 Pasha was happy, and Pasha said the same thing. Pasha 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:06.720 was like, I know when you're off. I didn't think 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:08.320 you were off, but then when we watched the tape, 0:19:08.359 --> 0:19:10.320 like I said, we were able to see what the 0:19:10.400 --> 0:19:12.440 judges saw, what they were talking about, that there was 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:16.399 a moment where we weren't perfectly in sync, which I 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:19.280 say we were not That means I was not. I Pasha, 0:19:19.280 --> 0:19:22.760 of course, is always perfect. I was off by half 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:26.840 a beat and so okay, I have room to grow. 0:19:27.080 --> 0:19:42.080 Next week, I have two announcements. One I've already teased 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:44.400 that I want to tell you about Dedication Week next week. 0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:47.399 But before I get into Dedication Week next week, I 0:19:47.480 --> 0:19:51.560 wanted to tell you that Dancing with the Stars legend 0:19:51.960 --> 0:19:55.840 Sharna Burgess will be joining the Danielle with the Stars family. 0:19:56.240 --> 0:20:00.920 She's taking the insightful hot takes and ex spurt scores 0:20:01.000 --> 0:20:04.000 that she has been sharing every week on TikTok and 0:20:04.560 --> 0:20:09.600 turning it into a podcast Shanna Burgess in the fourth chair. 0:20:10.320 --> 0:20:13.240 Every Thursday morning, it will be added to the Danielle 0:20:13.240 --> 0:20:15.760 with the Stars feed and you can hear her thoughts 0:20:15.800 --> 0:20:20.760 on everyone's dances and the scores. She is so smart 0:20:20.920 --> 0:20:23.639 and so cool and has helped me so much just 0:20:23.680 --> 0:20:27.040 by talking on TikTok and I love listening and watching her, 0:20:27.320 --> 0:20:29.320 so I'm happy to bring it to all of you. 0:20:29.880 --> 0:20:32.760 So make sure to subscribe to the Danielle with the 0:20:32.760 --> 0:20:35.679 Stars feed so that you never miss an episode of that. 0:20:36.720 --> 0:20:39.639 I got to see everyone's dances tonight for the first time, 0:20:39.880 --> 0:20:42.680 from top to bottom, with the exception of I went 0:20:42.720 --> 0:20:45.840 and did a TikTok live after Pasha and I danced. 0:20:45.960 --> 0:20:48.480 I've been going on TikTok Live occasionally and it's been 0:20:48.600 --> 0:20:51.680 so much fun. Everyone comes on and has great questions 0:20:51.720 --> 0:20:56.119 and I really enjoyed that, so that was nice. I 0:20:56.160 --> 0:21:00.760 got to see Jen and Yahn's performs first of all 0:21:01.520 --> 0:21:06.960 Disney Week makeup and like Yan in All Blue as 0:21:07.080 --> 0:21:12.160 the Genie and his goateee in the ponytail, and Jen 0:21:12.280 --> 0:21:18.439 is such a perfect jasmine Mark and Whitney's Hamilton. What 0:21:18.640 --> 0:21:23.679 a performance, what a dance, so much fun. Hilaria and 0:21:23.720 --> 0:21:30.320 Gleb who were unfortunately let go tonight, which another shocking elimination. 0:21:30.720 --> 0:21:34.119 They're all going to feel shocking. I think I e 0:21:35.119 --> 0:21:37.240 was also in the bottom three, and I know that 0:21:37.280 --> 0:21:42.000 they say that it's not necessarily really the bottom three, 0:21:42.080 --> 0:21:46.280 that only one person is the person who goes home 0:21:46.480 --> 0:21:48.560 was definitely in the bottom three, and that the other 0:21:48.640 --> 0:21:52.760 two people may have even at the most scores. There's 0:21:52.840 --> 0:21:56.560 like they just kind of throw that in there. But 0:21:56.680 --> 0:22:00.320 still in my mind, I'm going to treat it like 0:22:00.320 --> 0:22:02.960 a wake up call and I don't ever want to 0:22:02.960 --> 0:22:05.120 be in the bottom three again, which I know there's 0:22:05.160 --> 0:22:09.960 no way around that it's eventually gonna happen, but I 0:22:09.960 --> 0:22:12.400 don't like it. It was a bad feeling. And next 0:22:12.400 --> 0:22:15.720 week I just want to I really want to get 0:22:15.720 --> 0:22:19.440 my first eight. That's the that's the main goal. That's 0:22:19.480 --> 0:22:21.879 my main I mean, obviously the main goal is to 0:22:21.920 --> 0:22:24.720 become better and better every week, but like, how do 0:22:24.760 --> 0:22:26.399 you see that you're getting better and better every week, 0:22:26.440 --> 0:22:30.400 hopefully your scores improved. So I'm really hoping for an eight. 0:22:31.280 --> 0:22:34.479 Standing up there when that red light hits and you 0:22:34.520 --> 0:22:37.280 were finding out that you're in the bottom three, and 0:22:37.320 --> 0:22:42.480 then they do those long, beautiful, good TV dramatic moments 0:22:42.520 --> 0:22:45.440 where they just don't say anything for a long time, 0:22:45.920 --> 0:22:48.960 and my heart was beating through my chest and I 0:22:49.000 --> 0:22:54.600 could feel Pasha, you know, like taking deep breaths, and 0:22:54.640 --> 0:22:58.760 then you know, you don't hear your name, you hear 0:22:59.560 --> 0:23:05.240 two p ball, you hear Hilaria and Gleb, And the 0:23:05.280 --> 0:23:10.840 feeling of you being relieved that you're safe is is not. 0:23:11.119 --> 0:23:13.320 You don't even have like a few seconds of that 0:23:13.440 --> 0:23:18.520 being your primary feeling. It's absolutely simultaneous. At the exact 0:23:18.560 --> 0:23:23.080