Dancing Ripoff

Ripoff Dancing (12/6)

As I mentioned, the only TV stations I'm picking up at Desert Pool RV Park are ethnic ones. Tonight I stumbled on a ripoff of So You Think You Can Dance, which is actually using a bit of the theme music. Now, the ethnic group is not Russian but some eastern Europe language, maybe Armenian or Ossetian or Ukrainian. The names on commercials are like Roman Budaghyan, Yeznik Kazandjian, Dr. Vartanian (all in Los Angeles area).

Anyhow, the dancing is pretty bad. All the girls are short and stocky in build. The guys are fairly stocky, too. They're all in good shape, though. Some of the dances are jazzy modern; some are russian-style folk; some are jive-like. The choreography is bad; the lifts are carefully set up and not smooth. At the moment, there's a girl in a red leotard on toe shoes doing ballet with her partner in red & black with a paunch does hip-hop floor work. Yowie.

The host has a half-beard (you know, the one that looks like he forgot to shave for 4-5 days) and he wears an ascot. The judges give a critiques and there are phone numbers to call to vote, but I haven't seen any scores from the judges.

Highly amusing, even if I can't understand a word.