DWTS Russia Week 3: Gleb Savchenko And Adelina Sotnikova Dance A Fox Trot
It’s Dancing With The Stars Russia Week 3! This week Gleb Savchenko and Adelina Sotnikova take on the Fox Trot. Remember when Gleb danced a Fox Trot with Lisa Vanderpump in our version of Dancing With The Stars? It ended up being a fan favorite.
Lisa Vanderpump & Gleb Savchenko – Foxtrot by GrinyasEntertainment
So, what will happen this week? Below is a Gallery of Gleb and Adelina rehearsing. Note that Adelina will wear HEELS. 😀 You can also see some shots of the cast and judges which include Elena Samodanova.
And for another treat, you can watch Gleb and Adelina rehearsing for their Cha Cha last week at this link. I was having flashbacks of “Dirty Dancing” while watching this. HOT HOT!
In other exciting news this week for Gleb and Elena! Their dance underwear line “The Gleb Collection” will soon be making a debut in dance shops all over Russia. Too fun!!
Ok, that gets you caught up. Here’s to Week 3 of Dancing With The Stars Russia and wishing them all GOOD LUCK!! If interested in watching the show today on a LIVE stream, see Live Russia TV. Note the time change. It starts at 12:55pm ET!! If you can’t catch it, that’s ok. We hope to post videos as soon as we can in the spot below. Be sure to let them know what you think in comments.
ETA: Ok, I’m kind of confused because the stream started early (oh how I wish I understood Russian). Below is Gleb and Adelina’s Fox Trot thanks to Gleb RTing! How beautiful is this!! LOVES! They scored a 43 with it. Thanks to @jane9668 for the heads up and helping me in my confusion. lol
ETA2: So, according to this twitter exchange, they decided at the last minute to air the show at the same time last week instead of the new time. Not sure why.
ETA3: You can watch all the videos for yesterday’s show here.
And isn’t this a lovely photo courtesy of Elena…
What would they need a 0 paddle for? lol
LOL Hilarious!!
Don’t be so sure. DWTS UK has one and two paddles and they are used
Interesting. I don’t think the judges in the US have ever scored that low.
That’s one of the many things I love about Strictly. The judges are allowed to be more honest with their scores (and CRH never holds back). They aren’t as concerned about protecting the celebs’ precious egos, and I don’t think the UK celebs expect to be coddled. Most of them don’t have nearly the entitlement mentality that a lot of the US “stars” do.
There’s nothing wrong with the 3 and 4 paddles, especially early in the season.
As for Adelina and Gleb — they just look spectacular together. Look at those lines in their rehearsal pics. Just stunning.
We’ve seen the 2 paddle come up only a couple times in the US, for the one and only Master P! 😀
Ok, post updated with Gleb’s new dance!!
Totally Cidra. Also a 10 is used if the dance is PERFECT and I think the DWTS UK audience is far more enthusiastic. They also go absolutely mad when a 10 or a 40 is scored. If a 10 or 40 is scored at Blackpool well hold on to your hat because the crowd are sensational. I think it is a far “warmer” show
I agree…their lines are just stunning and in the dance itself too!
Love this, thank you.
YW Rose!!x
Nathan, I couldn’t agree with you more. “Strictly” is a *much* warmer show than DWTS. It’s a more light-hearted competition and doesn’t have that nasty edge the US show sometimes tries to stir up.
Now on to Adelina and Gleb’s Foxtort. The choreography, concept and presentation was great–a lovely performance; but I can see why they scored 43. It wasn’t as clean and polished as their previous performances. I saw a couple wobbles and tiny bobbles and a touch of sync problems in one side-by-side section. Still very enjoyable to watch.
Random Comment: My guess is the Russian dude singing “Hello Dolly” doesn’t speak (much) English. His pronounciation was dodgy in a lot of places and I don’t think he knew what half the words meant. Always better to sing in your own language (unless you’re fluent or have had a lot of time to study/rehearse the song).
The singer was killing me with the pronunciations. I thought he was singing in Russian at first before I realized it was just funny sounding English. Dance looked decent though. Good to see Gleb is doing well.
Thank you so much Vogue for posting those, they make a beautiful pair! I have a question though : Is Gleb the one creating the choreography or is it in charge of someone else?
У нас очень не справедливое судейство.Справедливо судит одна Елена.Глеб и Аделина хорошо танцевали.Судьи сказали ошибки мелкие , танец она не полюбила,не прочувствовала .Пишу по русски английский плохо знаю.
Vogue here with a Babylon translation. Oksana’s post says:
We are not a fair disciplinary.rightly judged one Elena.Glib and Adelina well danced.Judges said errors small , dance it is not love,not secretive practice .i am writing in Russian English poorly i don’t know.
Hey Oksana, welcome and thanks so much for your reply. Here’s a site to use for translating if you’d like to use it to post here: http://translation.babylon.com/russian/to-english/
Gladys, I think it’s Gleb creating his own choreography.
Also, for those interested, the full show has been added to the first post.
I disagree @Cidra. I think Strictly is very boring, lacks creativity big time.
I tried watching the very last season ..and got bored to death.
And none of the pros have any personality or creativity like our DWTS pros. Pasha/ Brendan/ Kevin/ Ola/ Karen etc holds no candle to the creativity that Derek/Mark/ Val/ Cheryl/ Witney/Sharna has.
For example, Frankie-Kevin’s West Side Story routine was a total rip-off of Val-Janel’s. Difference is that Val-Janel were much MUCH better.
Overall, DWTS is way better and more entertaining than Strictly anyday. 🙂
Thank you! Steam Adelina and Gleb is very like can if you want to sommetimes write about judges and leading
YW Oksana! It’s great to have you! We’ll do a new post next week too. Keep letting us know your thoughts.
OK.OK.
Oksana said:
“Our judges are not fair at all. Elena is the only fair judge. Gleb and Adelina had an amazing dance. The judges said they saw small mistakes and that Adelina didn’t ‘feel’ the dance, didn’t love the dance.”
Adelina herself said in their vieo package that it wasn’t her dance, it was hard for her to fall in love with foxtrot but that she tried her best.
Well, I thought it was worse than their first 2 dances but still, really good. I’d understand 8s for this dance if other couples were judged accordingly.
Re: choreography and who choreographs the routines. It’s weird. Alla, this dark haired woman sitting alone is the main choreographer for the show and it looks like at least some dances are choroegraphe by her but then last night one couple said that their choreography was a surprise for Alla. So I am still confused.
Awesome rumba by Love/Vadim and salsa by Xenia/Denis. 🙂 Elena looks great on the show!
Ava, thanks. I always look forward to your perspective since you understand the Russian language.
Totally Jim. I still haven’t watched all the dances yet and not sure I’ll have time today either. *CRIES lol
Vogue, thanks for the postings and thank you to Ava for the translations. I thought their dance was well done and I keep remembering even though she is an athlete, she is only 18. She really looks so much younger than the other women. This dance is more for the more mature and I thought she did great. I am not sure about the judges scores. Elena seems to be a fair judge from what I see but not understanding what they are saying makes it hard.
Anxious for next week and better scores! Go Gleb and Adelina, your fans are supporting you!
Julie W.
Elena usually comments on technical stuff and often asks for more ballroom-y choreography. She’s strict but fair. And other judges judge however they want. Sometimes it’s “oh, we wanted more from you even thought it was amazing but we missed something so 8” and sometimes it’s “oh, technically it was bad but it’s a lot better than your last dance when we gave you 6, so have a 10 this week, poor you”.
And Adelina is the youngest there by far, yeah. I am not sure but I guess the second youngest is at least 25 years old.
Also something else about Adelina and Gleb. Maksim (male host) asked them this week if it’s fair that Adelina is a professional figure skater (“Some people write some stuff online, that it’s like 2 professional dancers dancing together”) and Gleb’s answer was quite good. He said “Well, all of the celebrities are professionals. Professional singers, professional actresses and so on. So Adelina is a professional figure skater. Sometimes it helps, sometimes it doesn’t” (or something like that). I never was a big fan of Gleb but I like his attitude on DWTS Russia.
And this is my first season watching DWTS Russia, usually I watch only DWTS US and Strictly but I missed watching dances every week so decided to give this version a try. Still not completely sure how their rules work but I guess as usually – however TPTB want them to work lol
DWTSfan (#20), None of the points you made about the Strictly pros having no personality and the DWTS pros being more creative have any bearing on what I was saying about Strictly being a warmer, more light-hearted competition or that the judges on Strictly tend to coddle the celebs less and give lower scores.
As for your hyperbolic assertion that, “DWTS is way better and more entertaining than Strictly anyday”, I’ll just quote Kellie Pickler, “everyone likes their coffee different”, and leave it at that.
Ava,
Many thanks for translating Oksana’s comments and also for letting us know, in general terms, what the judges were saying and how they seem to be judging.
I feel this was Adelina/Gleb’s weakest performance so far (although “weak” is a relative term because it was still very good). Compared to her other dances, her score this week was fair. However, from what you said, it sounds like she was undermarked compared with what some of the other couples did. That’s a shame, and I hope that’s not the way it’s going to go all season.
Kind of interesting to learn that Russian viewers whine about the same thing US viewers do–basically that it’s “not fair” for figure skaters to be on the show because they have too much dance experience. 🙄 Gleb’s answer was appropriate.
Although I can get the other dance shows on my TV cable, I do watch on occasion the other shows, like SCD on you tube. I can say one thing, and that is that no other show comes close to having a host like Tom Bergeron. He is the backgone of DWTS USA. He is unique at what he does and greatly loved.
Correction, I met to say. “Although I can NOT get the other dance shows…
No meaning to spam but I forgot to comment on this fabulous couple. Even though I don’t understand a word spoken, the handsome Gleb and his partner Adalina need no words, our eyes watching them tells it all.
KKat, I agree, no host of any other DWTS-franchise show (that I’ve seen) comes close to our own Tom Bergeron. He’s the best in my opinion.
@Cidra
While I may not watch a certain show, I watch it just for the mere fact that Tome Bergeron is hosting it. I love his quick-witted humor.
Thank you once again Vogue! What a challenge to try to figure this all out but kudos to our posters who are trying. One thing I would like to say about the singer is his English is better then my Russian. lol Adelina and Gleb did a really good job I thought. Their dance was creative and well executed. It looked like she wasn’t as confident as she was in her last two dances but still did a great job. I think they have a lovely partnership and are doing well. When I saw Gleb ice skating this week it made me laugh. Obviously he is not ready for the Olypics but he tried! Adelina probably had a good laugh. When I think of how young she was when she began training and it was thru so much discipline she learned it was her ALONE on the ice and her power that would get her to Olympic Gold. Then all of a sudden she had to trust a partner to throw her around. Bravo Adelina for trusting Gleb. He is a good one!
#Ava,
Thank you so much for the translation, it makes sense how the judges are scoring.
That is what I meant, comparing what the other couples did, Gleb and Adelina could have scored higher. I had a feeling it was how they felt. Hope it does not go that way all season.
The expectations will be higher because of her abilities. DWTS here does the same thing, it is like “you should be better.” It is fun watching the show, I did not care for SCD, watched only to see Tristan.
The show is very long, could shorten. Not sure on voting, trying to vote this week for sure.
When will they eliminate a couple?
Cidra and DWIS fan, I think that the differences between SCD and DWTS are due to the audience watching. Every country have their own culture and their own habits. Even if entertainment Tv-shows such as DWTS or The Voice are exported around the world, the producers always tend to give their own little feel to the show. For example, the britanic audience is used to ballroom dancing and had already a lot of shows about it. That’s why the judges are more picky. Which one is better? Everyone has their opinion on it, just as Cidra said 🙂
Ps : if you see some mistakes in my messages, I would be very happy if you correct me. I am not a native English speaker but I love to learn and I love the language. I even learned a new expression “could not care less” thanks to you girls 🙂
As always thank you Vogue for posting and thank you Ava for translating!
Gladys, I don’t think anyone here really needs you to tell them about cultural differences. Just sayin’.
I think it can be” war” between the main choreographers Сигаловои and a pair Adelina and glib.After dance Gleb and Adelina gave an interview and frankly abusing Сигаловои she said dance was not to them.Gleb said Adelina is enormous pressure.Let’s see what they say the main choreographer on the samba in the following Saturday.was not sure that I am sure all wrote sorry
P.S.There is no it’s nothing wrong about it not said congratulated the day of birth and wished to remain позитивнии although it had a negative described dance
Not sure I understand Oksana, but, I appreciate you trying to update us from Russia. Thanks so much.
Thanks everyone for the updates. I can’t wait for their Samba!
I was just wondering why some dances were under 2 minutes and other ones were around 2:30? Does anyone know? It seems to me like quite unfair advantage for some couples.
I was just trying to try to explain why there are differences between DWTS around the world because Cidra and DWTS Fan were compairing SCD and DWTS. I shared the few informations I had by reading some interviews with fellow DWTS fans, I didn’t see anything rude on my comment.
I will keep those thoughts for me, I really don’t want to annoy anybody!
Pavla, are you sure that all the dances on DWTS have an equal time? Sometimes, it seems like some are longer than others. It may be for an extra introduction or extra props used by the dancers?
Just condescending, Gladys. I think most people here are intelligent enough to glean that there are cultural differences from one country to the next without you explaining it to them.
Oh, I think I understand what Oksana said. Main choreographer (that dark haired woman Alla) had a birthay that day. And almost every couple loudly congratulated her after their dance on air and some couples even gave her flowers. I thought it was cute when one couple did it but after fifth couple I started eyerolling. Because yeah, it is her birthay, we get it, but do we need reminders every 10 minuts? And it’s not like the couples couldn’t congratulate her behind the scenes. So it looks like Adelina an Gleb didn’t congratulate Alla during the episode (I didn’t pay attention to it but I guess they didn’t) and there is some bad blood between Alla and Aelina/Gleb. I am not sure if it’s true. But also there was this weird thing on episode 2, after Adelina’s cha cha the host asked Alla for her critique and Alla said ‘Oh, to be honest I checked out during that performance and didn’t see any of it, it happens to me sometimes” and didn’t said sorry and something like that. I thought it was a) unprofessional b) quite rude.
And sorry for all past and future mistakes, sadly my english is not as good as I wish it to be.
Thanks so much Ava!!! I so appreciate you helping to make sense of it. Alla sounds like a piece of work. I think it was rude of her too.
Here’s to Saturday. *can’t wait* and you guys make it even more fun as always.
Wow, Thanks Oksana and Ava for helping us non-Russian speakers understand the tension between the main choreographer and Adelina/Gleb. Going out on a limb, here, the choreographer sounds like a primadona who expects everyone to fawn all over her. Adelina/Gleb might not have felt like doing that after the way she basically dismissed their dance from the previous week. It all sounds very melodramatic. Hope they smooth things over this week because it could end up costing Adelina/Gleb scores and votes if the feud continues and judges/viewers start taking sides.
AVA ПОНЯЛА МЕНЯ ПРАВИЛЬНО НАРАСТАЕТ ВРАЖДА
Thank you so much Oksana and ava, it’s good to have people who understand the language!
I didn’t mean to be condescending at all, Princess Heidi… I, myself, didn’t know until recently that the show is adapted with the demography and the culture of the country. I just thought that all shows all look alike and are supposedly all based on Strictly. But, actually, the humour, the choregraphys, the rythmic is so different in order to please the audience watching. I did not know that! It was good to learn it from a producer and I wanted to share.
***edited, off topic – Heidi***
helping Ava a bit, Oksana says Ava understood her correctly and the tension is growing!
This is too funny (I am sure not to Adelina and Gleg though). I wonder if this is bad blood is “real” or “scripted”? But one thing for sure – this show provides drama EVERYWHERE!
LOL, Irina, it sure sounds like DWTS Russia makes DWTS USA look positively tame in the drama department! I too wonder how much of this drama is “scripted”. In some ways, I almost hope it is fake because then Adelina/Gleb are just playing their part in a “play within a play” rather than being victims of someone’s petty jealousy and ego.
Gladys, FYI and then I’ll drop this line of conversation because it is off topic. I was born in the USA but raised overseas. I lived in 7 different countries before I graduated from high school. So my world view is pretty well developed. Along with all the other advantages of an international upbringing, I’ve had lots of opportunities to personally experience how humor, pacing, etc. in entertainment varies from country to country. I definitely do not need any help understanding how cultural differences frame the way DWTS and Strictly are crafted and presented.
Cidra, I apologize if I offended you by my comments, I didn’t mean it that way, I hope I did’nt hurt yYoyou or anyone else.
*I didn’t hurt you (and the grammar mistakes begin)
Gladys, apology accepted.