?Bailando por un sueno?

[Chris Stratton]

Anyone seen this? It looks like another DWTS-style show - was surfing channels and saw a duel between two couples dancing something resembling swing. It's on right now on broadcast 41 (maybe 40 on some cable?) in NY.

(Well, DWTS like in set and format, the dancers seem to all be amateur)

[RhumbaWaltz]

I just turned it on and missed the dancing. :( I wish I understood Spanish!

[Chris Stratton]

I just flipped back and they seem to be doing merengue at the moment... well now they are done with that

[RhumbaWaltz]

I flipped back too...just saw the couple in the yellow and black.

[RhumbaWaltz]

You know you're addicted to dancing when:

you should be getting organized for the start of the workweek and you're watching a dance competition in a language you don't understand...

[Laura]

I've been watching for several weeks. The show is *long*, so I usually fast forward through the talking (which I don't understand, anyway).

The premise is that each non-celebrity is paired with a celebrity. The winning couple in the end will have a dream (un sueno) granted. One guy -- who I think got eliminated last week -- was dancing to raise money for a drug rehab program. My favorite dancer, Betzy, is dancing to raise money to build a house for her brothers and sisters to live in because her parents are divorced or something. One of the others wants to raise money to get his brother an artifical leg. Yet another works with kids with Down's Syndrome and other handicaps, and wants to put an elevator in his house.

It's pretty tear jerking...there's this whole ceremony where the couple who is getting kicked out has to extinguish their big candle.

[RhumbaWaltz]

Laura - thanks for the background! :)
RW

[Chris Stratton]

ouch

you kind of hope that there's enough money in the program for some sort of consolation award...

(at least this host can sort of dance in addition to talking)

[RhumbaWaltz]

The beauty queens on the show are wearing some serious tiaras!!!

[Laura]

Have you gotten a load of the hostess? The really tall blonde with the crazy dresses? Or maybe she's not so tall, but that the host is quite short. I don't know which...regardless, I nearly die laughing when I see her dresses each week, they're just so crazy.

Another thing that is a bit different about the show is that one of the judges' score is kept secret -- they hold up the paddle, but there's no number on it. I guess that's to build suspense.

[RhumbaWaltz]

Another thing that is a bit different about the show is that one of the judges' score is kept secret -- they hold up the paddle, but there's no number on it. I guess that's to build suspense.

Interesting...I prefer that to Carrie Ann Inaba holding up the wrong paddle! :)

[Chris Stratton]

it seems to be over for tonight

[Chris Stratton]

Interesting...I prefer that to Carrie Ann Inaba holding up the wrong paddle! :)

There seems to be a faction who'd like to confiscate them... and maybe put them to alternative use?

[RhumbaWaltz]

There seems to be a faction who'd like to confiscate them... and maybe put them to alternative use?

Ha ha! :) I believe that faction is organizing in another thread!

[etchuck]

You know you're addicted to dancing when:
you should be getting organized for the start of the workweek and you're watching a dance competition in a language you don't understand...

I'll admit that one of my favorite TV show moment is watching "The Soup" (of E! cable television) when they decide to have the Spanish soap opera moment of the week. Talk about some things being really over the top...

[Chris Stratton]

Telenovelas overdubbed in russian... = two chances to get the words but not the meaning!

[pygmalion]

Wait a second! Does the show air only in NYC or on satellite? I want more info! :?

[pygmalion]

And what's a sueno? :lol:

[pygmalion]

So much for google. It got hung up during the translation of the bailando page, and, at long last, yielded a half-translated page. Bzzzt. *raspberries to google* (Yes. I hang my head in google shame. :lol: )

[gusmahler]

And what's a sueno? :lol:
According to babelfish, it means dream. Which would make the title mean "dancing for a dream."

[pygmalion]

Ah. That makes sense. :)

[Chris Stratton]

Yes, each contestant has a dream which they will get money for if they win (stuff like buying brother a new prosthetic leg, etc)

[new-ish]

after discovering that I am a r%$$#! p#@ the last time I posted about this show, I am stupidly venturing in again to say that there is a new series.

The dancing appears to be much better this time and the judges seem to expect more from the participants.

hope this is less offensive :(