Strictly's Kristina Rihanoff says pro dancers not always good teachers

Strictly&#39;s Kristina Rihanoff said pro dancers not always good teachers. Credit: Good Morning Britain / ITV / ITVX

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00:00Teaching is a whole different skill. It's a whole different skill to be a professional dancer yourself or amateur dancer

00:05Of course, you're taught by a lot of great sort of famous dancers in our world

00:10And it is very strict and these sometimes brutal but when you come to a show like that

00:14We still have to remember it. We're not preparing them for World Championships. We prepare them for a TV show

00:19It is very intense, of course and has a pressurized environment in some way because you want to deliver a good dance

00:25But at the end of the day, it's a light entertainment. So we can't

00:28Go into that sort of space when they feel threatened and abused we have to be able to teach

00:34This is the primary skill which a lot of dancers