Derek Hough & Amy Purdy: Still Hoping To Dance Tonight!

Derek Hough and Amy Purdy hit up the dance studio on Saturday morning (May 3) in Los Angeles.

Still battling an injury, Amy, 34, is still hoping to dance an Argentine Tango during tonight’s Dancing With The Stars.

“Amy’s been cleared to continue, but she hasn’t been dancing yet because of the inflammation,” Derek explained in his TVGuide blog. “It’s not like, ‘You can dance in two days.’ It’s whenever she feels better and feels like she’s ready to. I’ve been dancing with someone else right now in rehearsals and Amy is in all the rehearsals watching.”

“We have the Argentine tango this week. I’m not really downgrading choreography to favor her back because there’s not much you can tweak in the Argentine tango to do that unless you do something really basic and not that interesting. I’m going ahead and choreographing something that I would normally do and hopefully she can do it. I always glance over to see what kind of face Amy is making when we’re rehearsing to see if she thinks she can do the move or not. I have one eye on her and one eye on what I’m doing. So far there haven’t been too many bad faces!” he added.

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