Finale Cha Cha - Shannen and Mark

Dancing the Cha Cha in the Finale. Way too short!

New photos :)

Mark and his cousin Sal spent the day together yesterday (May 26, 2010) - and visited the same diner twice in one day. These boys need a good woman to cook them some meals! LOL

Morning:

photo copyright Mark Ballas, 2010

Evening:

photo copyright Mark Ballas, 2010

Ok, this pic is actually of Lacey....but Mark is in the background! It counts right? ;) From the Big Bluff Launch red carpet, May 24, 2010:

photo copyright Christopher Hall, E! Entertainment, 2010

A couple backstage pics from the finale of DWTS, Season 10 (May 25, 2010), from YukiSNYC:

Mark and Kristi:

photo copyright Yuki Saegusa, 2010

Mark's feet:

photo copyright Yuki Saegusa, 2010

Also, some Red Carpet photos of Mark and others at Edyta's Bday bash, May 24, 2010: http://www.filmmagic.com/ItemListing.aspx?cgl=434437&evntI=0 Posted to twitter by Bewitching Ballas at 12:01 AM May 28th

photos from ABC.com - Finale

Season 10, week 10, results night "FINALE"

photos copyright ABC, 2010

Mark congratulating Derek - The Insider

The Insider with the couples after the Finale. Mark shows up to congratulate Derek at about :48

photos from Picapp

(be sure to click the 'gallery' links on each pic to see the rest of the pictures over at Picapp)

Mark on the red carpet for The Big Bluff launch party, May 24, 2010:

Mark on the red carpet for the DWTS Finale party, May 24, 2010:

Mark on the red carpet for the E! 20th Anniversary party on May 24, 2010:

Mark on the red carpet for the birthday party at H Lounge (Haute) with Derek, May 17, 2010:

Another event that Picapp doesn't seem to have photos for is Edyta's birthday bash on May 24th. FilmMagic has some photos from the red carpet.

Design a Dance, Season 10

Melissa Rycroft and Joey Fatone dancing a Tango choreographed by Mark Ballas
Season 10, Week 9, Design a Dance (May 18, 2010)

Mark backstage, DWTS Week 8

A couple of Twitpics from friends:

Jonathan tweeted this photo of Mark and him tweeting backstage, May 10th:

photo copyright Jonathan Roberts, 2010

Kim Kardashian posted this photo of Mark and her dancin' a bit before the show went live on Monday (May 10th)

photo copyright Kim Kardashian, 2010

And...oh Marky. After telling us of, not one, but TWO parking mishaps/fines in one day....Derek snaps a pic of you mangling your parking space marker at DWTS. lol Methinks someone might need a few parking refresher courses. Let's just blame it on London. He learned how to drive on the other side of the street. It must be messing with this brain. ;) LOL. Here is Mark's "parking masterpiece":

photo copyright Derek Hough, 2010

Here are a few pics posted by fans/friends. I won't post them, but you can go check them out, if you'd like:

From _Brenduhhh_: http://twitter.com/_Brenduhhh_/status/13467016137

From lostinlove0622: http://twitter.com/lostinlove0622/status/13863114653 & http://twitter.com/lostinlove0622/status/13862957014

 

DWTS S10 Wk7 Results show Pro Dance

Mark's first dance back from his knee injury in week 2. Dancing to Train "Hey Soul Sister" with Chelsie.

Mark talking about lingerie ad

Mark and some of the other dancers talk about a lingerie ad that was banned by ABC:

I haven't seen the ad either, so I don't know if it's too 'racy' - but honestly, it can't be any worse than some of the rumba's I've seen on DWTS (Julianne, I'm looking at you and your black lace). ;)  I actually think DWTS needs to tone down the costumes a little.  Shawn had to wear very conservative outfits, yet she looked gorgeous and sexy. You don't have to be in minimal fabric to be sexy. The mystery is sexy. But whatever, who am I, right? I think I'm becoming a minority in a world full of people who only think about sex. *sigh*

UPDATE: here is the ad. I suppose the end is why it got banned? Since she's basically going out in public in her underwear. The rest of the ad is fine though. What do you think?

Screencaps from Week 5 of DWTS

Just a couple of screencaps of Mark and Shawn in the audience on performance night, week 5 (Monday, April 19, 2010). :) Look closely. ;)

all photos copyright ABC. Screencapped by Bewitching Ballas Blog

Week(s) in Review - April 5 - April 18

Well, I didn't get a Sunday review done last week, so this one will be for the last two weeks. :)


April 5th was an acoustic show at The Mint and was a good one, from what I heard.  Christopher Hall of E! Entertainment posted a picture of Mark and Chelsie at the show, which I posted here. 

Also on that page is a picture Mark posted of him and the other musicians from the April 6th DWTS result show. Mark played Flamingo guitar with two other musicians while Derek and Chelsie danced a Paso Doble.  It was a wonderful performance.  I posted a video and screencaps.

On April 7th, we got a blog from Mark at Hollyscoop.  They claimed that Mark would blog every week, even though he was out of the competition, but we have yet to get a blog for week 4 of DWTS.  The blog posted on April 7th was for week 3 (even though it says week 2 in the blog). I'll be keeping a lookout for an update to Mark's blog; hopefully he updates it this week. :)

On April 8th, Mark tweeted that it was the first day off the crutches. :) Gettin' better! 

On April 11th, Mark was a guest on the Reality Cares radio show.  It is an hour long show.  Mark talked about DWTS, his music, his uncle's suicide, and the AFSP. http://latalkradio.com/images/Reality-041110.mp3

ChicaGirl magazine tweeted that they were going to interview Mark at his big show on April 12th.  According to their website, the interview will be available in Issue 11.  I'll post a link when it is available to read. :)

April 12th, Mark did a Twitterview or Twinterview (call it what you want) with Wonderwall MSN.  I posted the transcript of the interview here.

Also on April 12th, Mark posted a great pic of him and his dad, that I totally forgot to post on the blog:

photo copyright Mark Ballas, 2010

The Mint show on April 12th was a sold-out, full band show.  It was treated as his album release party, red carpet and all.  The event was called "An Evening with Mark Ballas".  Check out this post for some pictures from the event.  Mark also posted a pic of the stage from one of the rehearsals for the big Mint performance, found in this post - which also contains pics of Mark's Vibe kids.  They performed on DWTS on April 13th.

Check out the Vibe dance team's performance from April 13th here.  There is also some footage of the kids rehearsing with Mark in this video (screencaps here as well).

On Friday, April 9th, E! posted an article with quotes from Mark stating that his knee needed a twitter account and then this weekend (April 16th), his knee began twittering (MBallasKnee). And then the other body parts started showing up to the party.  His shoulder is tweeting (MBLeftShoulder), as well as Cheryl's ring and various body parts belong to Derek Hough (Hair, Abs). Be sure to check them out, it's pretty hilarious. :)  Mark has been chatting with his knee and shoulder this weekend, which has been rather humorous. :)  It all started with Evan's Toe though. ;)

Mark has been posting a few pictures of his knee over the past week. I think he's getting bored not being able to dance. ;)

Mark says "Hot Wire my Heart" is the name of a new song...but right now it seems like it's "hot wire my knee"

Doing exercises to get strong again:

The knee got to wear some new jeans:

Since Derek's hair started tweeting as well, the knee and hair decided to post a picture together:

all photos of the knee copyright Mark Ballas, 2010

I think the pain killers have made Marky a little loopy. =P


Well, I think that about wraps it up for the past two weeks.  Here are some tweets that are notable from the past couple weeks. :)

Twitter notable updates from the weeks of April 5-18:
The Examiner says that @OfficialMBallas is a wanna-be singer http://bit.ly/9NaEE2 RUDE! - Excuse me, but he IS a singer, and dang fine one!

RT @OfficialMBallas @BewitchBallas thank u for ur support and dedication, love ya  

RT @OfficialMBallas Day 1 off the crutch, don't get cocky now mark ;)

RT @ChicaGirlMagazine @BewitchBallas ChicaGirl Magazine will be interiviewing Mark Ballas Monday 12th at The Mint! See everyone there! 8:30!!

RT @TracieMayWagner @OfficialMBallas and my hubby Phillip... http://yfrog.com/0mj6xsj

Finally found it! Mark's interview with John Jay and Rich from March 18, 2010: http://bit.ly/cByENv

New poll on the Facebook page: http://apps.facebook.com/polldaddy-polls/?view=poll&id=3028004 :)

RT OfficialMBallas Just had a rehearsal with my full band, all I can say is They are Awesome, the show @MintLA on the 12th is going to be SICK  

RT @OhMeredith Thanks @LittleMissBizE for sending @OfficialMBallas to get his haircut today @StudioDNA. He was such a doll! And his hair-so supercute :)
 
RT @derekfrankbass @OfficialMBallas you must be at SIR... they've been there for weeks! bummed i'm not rockin' with ya!

New poll: What's your fave song on Waiting for Patience? http://apps.facebook.com/polldaddy-polls/?view=poll&id=3028004

RT @RealityCares Call-in to our Radio Show on LATalkRadio.com today at 2pm Pacific to speak with @OfficialMBallas @jennipulos: 323-203-0815

RT @Tom_Bergeron @BewitchBallas Ah yes, you never know what the camera will catch!

RT @OfficialDHough At Marks gig everyone is here .. Really proud of him this project means alot to him .. He's gonna kill it ..

RT @billinlv Gas LV to LA: $60., Hotel in LA: $160., Seeing @OfficialMBallas show @MINTLA: Priceless!!!!!!!

RT @RealityCares @OfficialMBallas performing live at The Mint Los Angeles!! http://tweetphoto.com/18250813  

RT @ExtraCarlo just covered @OfficialMBallas album party at The Mint. His cd is really good! Thanks so much ;) 


http://bit.ly/a6U6PX Mark says people should give Kate a break. :)

RT @OfficialMBallas My vibe kids in school for the day before dancing on the show, they are so bored lol ha ha ha http://moby.to/vs01z0

I've added 3 new pages to the website: Mark's Music: http://bit.ly/bfjqkE, Links: http://bit.ly/bI0fTA, Event Calendar: http://bit.ly/9lHIEn

http://bit.ly/ddHuPh Hollyscoop's article about Mark's sold out performance at the Mint on April 12th. :)

RT @OfficialMBallas Just finished a new song, called "alot of faith a little will" I really like this one ;)
 
RT @OfficialMBallas RT @EvanLysacek @OfficialMBallas will you play your new song this Monday at MintLA? I sure will buddy, hope ur comin down

DWTS- Pro's home videos

Home videos from the DWTS younger days (from the April 13, 2010 show)


Screencaps after the cut:

The Vibe kids on DWTS

April 13, 2010 - Students from The Vibe center in Utah perform on DWTS. Choreographed by Mark Ballas


Proud teacher:

all photos copyright ABC. Screencapped by Bewitching Ballas Blog

Mark posted this great pic of a few of the Vibe dancers:

 photo copyright Mark Ballas, 2010

Screencaps from the Paso

Here are the screencaps from Derek and Chelsie's Paso, for which Mark played Spanish guitar (April 6, 2010).  I only capped the shots where Mark appears, so it's not the whole dance. But there were a few cool shots where Mark is far in the background, but he's between Derek and Chelsie. Wonderful camera angles for this dance. :)

Screencaps are after the cut:

Photos from ABC.com week 3

Photos from ABC.com for the week 2 elimination.

all photos copyright ABC

Mark backstage with ABC7 - week 3

Mark talking to ABC7 backstage at DWTS after the week 3 results show:

Malagueña by Ernesto Lecuona

The song played by Mark, Jeremy, and Song for Derek and Chelsie's Paso Doble on the results show of week 3 (April 6, 2010) is called Malagueña.  It's a lovely arrangement of the piece, and many probably recognized the tune.  This tune, though very well known as a guitar peice, was actually written as the finale of a piano suite by Ernesto Lecuona.  Lecuona was the son of a Canarian father (Spanish) and a Cuban mother.

For much of the last century, Ernesto Lecuona's piano suite Andalucía was the hidden source of a variety of musical compositions and performances. Its fiery finale, Malagueña, exists in several arrangements for guitar, became a popular song with a text by Marian Banks, and showed up for years on easy listening LPs by the likes of Andre Kostelanetz and the 101 Strings. Other pieces from the suite also appeared with added English texts, and no doubt Lecuona himself popularized the music during his years in New York as leader of the band Lecuona's Cuban Boys. But the original work, written around 1927, was largely forgotten outside of Cuba until pianist Thomas Tirino began to revive the music of the "Cuban Gershwin" in the late '90s. What Tirino revealed, to growing acclaim at first centered on South Florida, was a splendid six-movement concert showpiece that fused dynamic pianism rooted in Romantic virtuosity, Spanish and gypsy folk rhythms, and Lecuona's own unerring melodic sense. The six movements evoke various Spanish sounds and scenes, alternating lyrical pieces with dance rhythms topped by spectacular runs. "Gitanerías" is a flamenco-influenced piece, while "Alhambra," an evocation of Spain's Moorish-era palace, is one of several pieces that reveals Lecuona's familiarity with impressionist idioms. All in all, Andalucía (also known as the "Spanish Suite" or "Suite Española") fully lives up to the Gershwin comparison: it is classical piano music enlivened by popular vigor and informed by a distinctive compositional intelligence.
© James Manheim, All Music Guide (found at Classical Archives)

Videos of "Andalucía, suite for piano (Suite Española)" by Ernesto Lecuona. (after the cut)

Photos: Mark at Drai's, Ferrari, & DWTS gifting services

• Mark at Gifting Services at the CBS Lot in honor of Season 10 of DWTS: March 21, 2010:

photo copyright Kevan Brooks/AdMedia 2010

Check out the rest of the photos from the gifting services set here: picapp.com

•  Mark attended Ferrari's charity auction of the first Ferrari 458 Italia in North America at Fleur de Lys in Los Angeles on March 18, 2010:

photo copyright David Livingston/Getty Images

And the rest of the photos from the Ferrari event: picapp.com

• Since these are all paparazzi pics, I won't post any here...just the link.  Mark attended the Grand Opening of Drai's Nightclub at The W Hotel in Hollywood, CA on March 17, 2010: picapp.com

Mark, Derek, and Chelsie - Pro Dance 4/6/10

Here is the amazing Paso Doble pro dance from tonight. April 6, 2010

Dancers: Derek Hough and Chelsie Hightower
Musicians: Mark Ballas, Jeremy Silver, and Zhang?

Watch it at YouTube...it's so beautiful in the bigger screen. :D

ET & Access Hollywood videos

Videos from this past week that talk about Shannen and Mark:

Entertainment Tonight from March 31, 2010:


Access Hollywood from April 1, 2010: