The same-sex ballroomers on SYTYCD had reasonable technique; the problem, from a ballroom perspective, is that they switched up leader/follower roles a lot, and most of the ballroom community - even the same-sex ballroom community - is very firm that you Don't Do That because it ruins a lot of the underlying chemistry and flavour of the dance.
That's what Mary and Sonya were trying to say, albeit ineloquently. Dan Karaty called out on auditioning same-sex ballroom couple (two women) on the Dutch version of the show for pretty much exactly the same thing.
A pretty good example of "traditional" same-sex ballroom is here (with the black-clad dancer taking the "male" role and the white-clad the "female"):
Of course, this continues to be a major schism in ballroom, and there is a small but notable contingent of same-sex ballroomers saying that it's time to revolutionize ballroom by exchanging leader/follower roles in a routine.
But of course none of this is really the point, because the point is that Nigel was a douchebag and his comments weren't about the leader/follower issue so much as they were that he really wants men, be they gay or straight, to dance "manly."
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That's what Mary and Sonya were trying to say, albeit ineloquently. Dan Karaty called out on auditioning same-sex ballroom couple (two women) on the Dutch version of the show for pretty much exactly the same thing.
A pretty good example of "traditional" same-sex ballroom is here (with the black-clad dancer taking the "male" role and the white-clad the "female"):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Smc5rDecvOs
Of course, this continues to be a major schism in ballroom, and there is a small but notable contingent of same-sex ballroomers saying that it's time to revolutionize ballroom by exchanging leader/follower roles in a routine.
But of course none of this is really the point, because the point is that Nigel was a douchebag and his comments weren't about the leader/follower issue so much as they were that he really wants men, be they gay or straight, to dance "manly."