I thought Bianca said in the rehearsal interview that she was comfortable with the routine because that's what her church experience was like.
When I was in college in the south and going to a black church, my church experience was like that, too, but I didn't dance. That style of movement is going to be familiar to you if you've spent time in many Large, AA churches because lots of them incorporate praise dance. But as far as I know, she never claimed to have been on a praise dance team. I don't know. It just rubbed me the wrong way.
I'm still glad she's gone. I will never forget her stank attitude when she didn't make the show in S5 and nothing will convince me that she is not secretly stank.
On the Channing/Philip thing, I agree that Philip turned out to be a lousy partner and not a strong lead. But the thing with lifts is that the lady has to know how to help her partner out, how to hold her center and hold her own weight. If she doesn't know that, it makes it infinitely harder for the man to properly execute the lifts. And Channing, whether because of fear or inexperience or I don't know what, goes into those lifts like a wet noodle. And then she kind of just sits there and waits for her partner to throw her around. She's not helping at all, which is part of the reason why the exits to every lift that they did looked so clunky. I think it was just unfortunate that neither one of them seemed to have had much partnering experience.
And while I agree that it's kind of unfair to compare Janette and Brandon's tango at several weeks into the competition with Ellanore and Ryan's, I think even if they'd pulled that style during top 12 week, they wouldn't have come close to executing it as well as B&J did. Also, we've seen some really awesome tango performances early on in a season. I'm thinking of Mark/Chelsie in S4. Their tango is what solidified my Mark love and my intense obsession with Chelsie's feet and that was what? Like week three? I remain impressed, though, by their reaction to the wardrobe malfunction. They were total pros. I'd bet that's probably happened to Ryan's partners before, maybe even in competition, but Ellanore? She took that unfortunate challenge like a champ.