Quarter-finals on “Let’s Dance”: Detlef Soost takes on the role of a woman, Jana Wosnitza shines with fabulous footwork and “a cheeky young man” goes straight to the semi-finals. Curtain up for show 10, which ends up causing a sensation.
It all started eleven weeks ago, now in the quarter-finals “Let’s Dance” is bringing out the big guns and celebrating a “world premiere” in the Musical Dome in Cologne. The usual parquet floor in the studio gives way to a breathtaking “Moulin Rouge” atmosphere, but the new backdrop has its own special pitfalls. There are a lot of grooves in the floor that make it even more difficult for the dancers.
In show number ten there are two dances on the program for the celebrities. In addition to the individual dance, there is the “trio dance” already known from previous years. Detlef Soost slips into the role of a woman for his first dance, a Charleston, and delivers a “lively spectacle” with his Ekat. However, during the trio dance, in which he is accompanied by Mariia Maksina as well as his teacher, he puts the entire “Moulin Rouge” into complete ecstasy.
Now, according to Llambi, a tango is also a distinctly “men’s dance” and as beautiful as the women at his side were, the jury actually only had eyes for the coach. Soost’s charisma on this stage captivates the entire audience. No wonder this tango earns him the highest rating.
“Boy, boy,” Jana Wosnitza’s trio dance is in no way inferior to the 53-year-old’s advance. Together with Vadim Garbuzov and Anastasia Stan, she delivers to Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance” in such a way that the jury is also united in their praise for this “chicka power”. In the individual dance, the NFL presenter impresses with a cha-cha-cha and perhaps it is partly due to the “energetic atmosphere” and the special aura that prevails in the Musical Dome that Wosnitza looks as if she wants to go straight to the final march through.
60 points for the “cheeky young man”
Because Mark Keller unfortunately had to leave the show due to injury, Lulu, who was eliminated the previous week, returns. The singer presents a “Viennese Waltz under the Eiffel Tower” alongside Massimo. And of course it’s anything but easy to dance, but the jury boss would have liked at least a little cleaner footwork. The 32-year-old takes the criticism and shows a feminine cha-cha-cha with many “great moments and easy movements” in the “infamous” trio dance. But will that be enough in the end?
Well, what else can you say about Gabriel Kelly? He, too, “started out as a cheeky young man” eleven weeks ago, but now he seems as if he had started dancing in early childhood. First he knocks the entire jury and everyone present out of their seats with a contemporary. And as if 30 points weren’t enough, he adds another jive. Llambi enthuses that his movements are right “right down to the little finger” and perhaps he really was born with the talent.
After all, his aunt Maite has already won the show once! Alongside Malika and Zsolt Sándor Cseke, he moves so synchronously that you can hardly tell the two dancers apart. Not to mention the incredible speed that the jive requires! We may have just seen this season’s winner celebrating his 60 rightly deserved points.
Ann-Kathrin Bendixen and her “little story”
The end of the show is a bit of a sensation. Because contrary to expectations, Ann-Kathrin Bendixen is voted into the semi-finals by the spectators and Lulu, who has just returned for Mark Keller, has to leave the tournament for the second time. Nobody denies that Bendixen will probably never become a gifted dancer. But there’s no denying that she always makes the best of everything and has really “grown” on this show.
How many times has she shed bitter tears? How much did the pressure from outside bother her? And she too had already been eliminated. Her journey is, as her partner Valentin Lusin rightly says, “really a little story.” Maybe you could say she’s a little phoenix rising from the ashes, knowing she’s “not semi-final worthy” and still trying to deliver. But in his own way.
Of course, she was carried a lot during the Rumba, but Motsi still saw good parts of the Slowfox, the most difficult of all ballroom dances. It is her lovable personality that resonates with the audience. And well, Jorge even attests to her a lot of “sexyness”! How happy she can be about every bit of praise, no matter how small, is “worthy of the semi-finals”.