Mark Ballas and the JabbaWockeeZ

Back in season 9 of DWTS, Mark and Lacey danced with the JabbaWockeeZ. I love me some JabbaWockeeZ. :)

My mom, YouTube, & Team Shark (oh, and Marky too)

I introduced my mother to YouTube yesterday. I got her a new phone (the Palm Pixi) and it has a YouTube app. I showed her and she immediately said "OMG, I can watch Mark and Shawn dance on my phone??" Seriously, she's a hugeTeam Shark fan. HUGE. :)

Ok, so am I. ;)


Anyhoo, after watching a few Team Shark dances and a few Shawn gymnastics videos, I showed her the videos of Cheryl and Mark dancing for Cheryl's Philippine Disaster Fundraiser and she really enjoyed them. The charity event was back on December 20th, 2009 at the Cheryl Burke Dance Studio in San Francisco. They danced Mark and Shawn's Cha Cha from season 8 and Cheryl and Gilles' Tango from season 8. They learned the dances in only a half hour, if I remember right. :) Cheryl looks gorgeous (love the dresses) and Mark looks handsome (oh, and watch out ladies....bare chest! .... on Mark, not Cheryl. Because that would be a whole different kind of show.....)  I've posted the videos previously - if you would like to watch them again (highly recommended) you can see the post here: http://bewitchingballas.blogspot.com/2010/02/dance-for-cause-with-cheryl-burke.html

I'll add this video to the mix....a little behind the scenes video from the charity event. Cheryl and Mark taught a little bit at the fundraiser too. :)


The point of this post? Well, it's because 1) it's so cute to see my mom excited about Shark. She thinks they should get married. LOL and 2) watching the previously mentioned videos led mom and I to watch more videos and I came across this rehearsal video of the pros from season 9. I remember this one....Marky gets a little upset in this video. Angry!Marky. Me no likey. Me likey Happy!Marky. Yes. :D


But, aside from the brief second of Angry!Marky, this is a really cool video. I LOVE behind the scenes stuff for anything. I love to see how things work. How things are done. I love DVDs that give you hours of 'making of' footage. So fascinating. :) So, this one gave us a lot of footage of the pros rehearsing, which we don't get to see often on DWTS. They never show a rehearsal package before pro dances. *sadface*

Mark & Melissa - Sept 14, 2009

Another oldie post ;)

Melissa Joan Hart and Mark attended a little Farewell & Good Luck party in Connecticut before season 9 of DWTS. Picapp has some photos from the event...here are a few. Be sure to check out the rest of the gallery at the website!

The party took place at the Tokeneke Club on September 14, 2009 in Darien, Connecticut.  Looks like it was a lovely party. :)

Photos copyright Christopher Capozziello/Getty Images

:D now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go laugh my bootie off at Craig Ferguson. ;) More Marky stuff tomorrow!

Old interview with Mark and Melissa

Mark and Melissa (Team Melarky!) on Ellen :) (season 9)

Mark's Jives

Monday, Mark and Shannen will do a Jive. Mark has performed many Jives on the show. He performed one with Sabrina, two with Kristi, one with Shawn, and one with Melissa. For every Jive, he dressed his partner in a traditional Jive style dress. He also likes the early Rock'n'Roll music for the Jive as well (in other words, he doesn't do a Jive to a more modern song).  So, we can probably expect to see Shannen in a traditional Jive dress and the music to be early Rock'n'Roll. ;)

Here are Mark's previous Jives: (a playlist of 5 dances)

Mark's Viennese Waltzes

Mark has performed 3 Viennese Waltzes with his celebrity partners: Kristi, Shawn, and Melissa. Here is playlist of each one. I'm interested to see if Shannen wears white for her Viennese Waltz too. ;)