With a lot of work and a brightly colored shirt, Simon Zachenhuber qualified for the sixth round of the RTL show Let's Dance.
Jive is now one of his favorites.
Cologne / Reisen - Was it a Hawaiian shirt or was it a piece from the souvenir shop of the Botanical Garden?
In any case, Simon Zachenhuber assures: Yes, he could well imagine wearing this shirt when he sauntered through the Erdinger Lange Linie with an ice cream - “when I'm in a very, very good mood”.
This is exactly what the 22-year-old from Reisen and his partner Patricija Belousova radiated on Friday evening on the RTL show Let's Dance.
For their jive on the happy song "Escape" by Rupert Holmes, the two first received 20 points from the jurors and then the necessary calls from the audience who voted the "dynamic couple" (quote: juror Motsi Mabuse) into the next round.
In contrast to actor Erol Sander, who left this time.
According to RTL information, over 8 million people tuned into “Germany's most beautiful live dance show”.
They saw a young couple with the starting number 6 who obviously really enjoyed their performance: Zachenhuber plays a sunny boy who charmingly lures the girl out from behind a sales stand to dance a lively jive.
In what is now the fifth show, the couple put on the loosest and happiest performance to date.
He had already had a lot of fun beforehand, says the 22-year-old, “but at the beginning there were a lot of new impressions.
All the trappings of a show like this are overstimulated, you can't even imagine that ”.
But in the meantime he has already seen the whole thing work five times.
“I can now focus more on dancing,” and that also increases the fun factor.
With all the fun: The scenes from the training during the week show how much work there is behind a performance.
You can hear the traveler groaning.
“Before I took my first steps, I said that Jive is my favorite dance,” says Zachenhuber, who is soaking wet, “not anymore”.
The professional boxer explains that he has never danced jive before.
“The dance just looks cool, but it already has a demanding technique, which I had imagined that it would be easier.
You have to do the kicks exactly. "
Footwork is also important for a boxer.
Speed is an essential factor in both cases, "but when you dance you have a completely different body tension," explains Zachenhuber.
"And you have given certain steps that you then rehearse." And they have to be right.
That was the jurors' only criticism.
“Work on your technology”, demanded Mosti Mabuse.
It has to be possible “faster, more zigzag”.
Zachenhuber found the criticism "very constructive".
He will try to do this in the next dance.
“But it was so much fun dancing to this great song.
You tend to party too much, to give too much gas, and the technology has suffered as a result. ”He has long since revised his opinion about the jive again.
"Yes, yes, the Jive is one of my favorites again."
“The party”, as Zachenhuber put it, also impressed the jury.
"It's getting better from week to week," praised Motsi Mabuse.
Jorge Gonzalez also “liked it very much.
You have interpreted the character of the dance well ”.
And the strict Joachim Llambi recalled the successful last appearance: "After the Paso Doble you managed to keep up the vigor." At that time the jury awarded 23 points, this time Gonzalez, Mabuse and Llambi held the trowels with the 6, 6 and 8 high - a total of 20 points.
That means sixth place among the ten dance couples.
After the audience's vote, it was clear: it will continue next week.
What dance would he like to have?
“I'll be surprised,” says Zachenhuber.
A standard dance might be nice.
"But I am not a specialist and I am happy about every dance that I am allowed to learn."
And about the outfit he is allowed to wear.
The above-mentioned shirt would have been made by the seamstress according to the wishes of his dance partner Patricija Belousova, who is also responsible for the choreography.
Joachim Llambi suspected: “The shirt was stolen from Kai Ebel.” It was colorful, “a very summery shirt, I thought the cut was kind of cool,” says Zachenhuber.
Perhaps you can actually see him on Erding's promenade, or, as he says, “during carnival in the 'Post', when the motto is 'Summer Breeze'."
Dieter Priglmeir
