See, now I thought the routine was similar to J&C's in that Alec was the "teacher" and Kelly was learning how to follow along. I remember there being a couple of places where he actually stopped and held up a finger like "watch this" and then Kelly would mimic what he did.
Initially I thought Kelly pausing and looking at Alec was part of the choreography similar to the "teacher/student" thing Char & John did. Now that I just rewatched Kel'n'Alec's freestyle I still think it is part of the choreography because it happens 3 times, and in all instances not only does Alec point his finger during the pauses, Kelly cocks her head with a "check you out" look each time. However, given Kelly's impressive reach back with the knee-landing, I can not discount the possibility that Kelly is just a really good actress! :)
My problem is that the stream has no slow-mo and every time I try to watch Kelly at just those instances, Alec is SHAKING n' GRINDING all he is worth. I swear I rewatched 20x, each time Alec distracted me!
And when they ran up onto the stairs right in the beginning and stopped to "set" themselves before they started?
Not a technical mistake. They are doing the salsa on the stairs. They have to start on beat 1 of an 8-beat music. Artistically they could have either ran up faster to catch the earlier 1 or slowed down so the pose was shorter, but when you're doing a trick, you just tend to hold the end in a pose (hopefully looking good), and start again on beat. It would have been a big ballroom crime to get on top of the stairs and just started dancing on the wrong beat.
WOOHOO, the Kelly/Alec ship is sailing full sails! Check us out.
ETA ziglettospal is 100% correct, get to a ballroom comp near you. The higher-level Latin comps are full of very hot, young, virile men suxy-ing up the floor. Sinful.
I am trying to catch Kel'n'Alec on GMA supposedly postponed for today, but I've still yet to see them.