International DWTS

[waltzgirl]

In my area (So. Calif.), the Spanish-language station Univision is carrying an international competition of various national winners of versions of DWTS in other countries. It's called "Bailando por un Sueño: Campeonato Internacional de Baile." Here, it starts this Sunday at 8 pm and lasts 3 hours!

I gather various languages will be spoken by the contestants and translated into Spanish. Based on some of the commentary on the US version, it may actually be a benefit not to understand the talky bits! Fortunately, the dancing requires no translation.

 

[salsera_alemana]

I saw Univision's "Bailando por un sueño" last year. What I saw was very different to DWTS. They had ordinary people who thought they could dance compete for their dream (e. g. to get medical treatment for their mother). I watched it only twice and gave it up because it was a lot of silly talk and the dancing was very mediocre, if not to say bad.

Maybe this is a different show, though.

 

[waltzgirl]

Oh. Well, I'll check it out and report back.

 

[reb]

I saw Univision's "Bailando por un sueño" last year. What I saw was very different to DWTS. They had ordinary people who thought they could dance compete for their dream (e. g. to get medical treatment for their mother). I watched it only twice and gave it up because it was a lot of silly talk and the dancing was very mediocre, if not to say bad.

Maybe this is a different show, though.

This sounds like the shows I've seen out here also - and it was . . . terrible!

 

[My Ox Is Broken]

I saw Univision's "Bailando por un sueño" last year. What I saw was very different to DWTS. They had ordinary people who thought they could dance compete for their dream (e. g. to get medical treatment for their mother). I watched it only twice and gave it up because it was a lot of silly talk and the dancing was very mediocre, if not to say bad.

Maybe this is a different show, though.

Dancing for medical treatment?! OMG!

 

[DancingJools]

I don't speak Spanish enough to figure out what the prize is, but the program is playing right now and the dancing is, as predicted, mediocre at best. The costumes are really garish. Dancing is more American style (chachas really have bent legs - really).
Anyway, I'm switching channels.

 

[salsera_alemana]

It is basically the same show that I saw last year, only at an international level. The dancing tonight was just as bad as last year. I missed the beginning but what I got from the show is that there is a famous person and a person with a dream dancing as a couple. The "dream" is to do something for a good cause, e.g. building an orphanage in their country.

However, it seems that none of those people has any clue about dancing. I wonder whether they get trained by somebody or whether they have to come up with their own choreography. If they get trained then their trainers have no clue, either. Tonight's dances were disco and mambo. All mambos were really bad! One would think that if they had a trainer/instructor, that person would at least teach them the basic step.

That was it for me. I will not keep watching this show.

 

[waltzgirl]

Sorry, I was misinformed! The friend who told me about it said it was a dance-off of winners of other countries' DWTS. I know she watches both shows--maybe she can't tell the difference! :shock: She's not a dancer, but still!

It was kind of amusing in a grotesque way. At least the judging wasn't too inflated. They were handing out 2's. The highest I saw was a 7.

It does have a nicer trophy than DWTS.

And that fact that I watched it for 15 minutes should really go on the "You Know You're Addicted" thread!

 

[reb]

At least the judging wasn't too inflated. They were handing out 2's. The highest I saw was a 7.

So that's where they put the DWTS paddles with the low numbers of 1, 2, 3 !!