Thibault Ramirez & Nicole Ramirez "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" - Routines - Budafest 2023 

Oui ! Bravo à ce duo 🎉

I'm sure he is, he coached them through this whole routine :)

@@LightsaberPanda interesting...i thought that might be. I know Maxence works with J'Em. Nice to see the continuity. ❤

They don't, but that's not the first time I see someone comparing West Coast Swing dancers to ice skaters. Something in the fluidity of their moves, maybe...

I kind of agree, I think part of it is that there are definitely parts of this particular version of the song that just aren’t very emotional (the reverb, space-filler part at 2:25 for example), but the other part certainly comes down to them. I personally see this song as kind of angry almost, but the facial expressions they make are often kind of happy/cutesy (more like a K-pop girl band lmao). There are some instance where I thought they moved well with the music and expressed emotion through their face and their movements that fit the music and song, like at the very end they both slide into their ending poses and do it to the rhythm of the music and their movements and facial expressions kind of fit the angry/menacing feel of both the lyrics and the music. There are a couple of instance where the dance also seemed a bit choppy to me, not as fluent as I’m sure they intended, where they just wouldn’t quite meet each other right, or Thibault would catch her, but it seemed like just barely, or Nicole wouldn’t quite be in ready to perform a move.