(To our international readers - please don’t use these words in public.) When watching this horrible program I was relieved to see there are some really decent young dancers in South Africa. ‘Seuns en dogters’ as they are referred to by the one ‘tannie’ who is disguised as a judge.
All credit to Kyknet, I cannot aptly describe how pathetic this program is put together. (Forgive me SABC for erroneously thinking you produced this) Maybe I should try to explain it as one of the judges, Lorcia Cooper, so fittingly relates, “daar’s nie enough movement nie - ek kan dit nie discraaib nie maar dit konnek net nie met my nie - ag no - jy dissapoint my”. Better, it has to be said, than award winning choreographer, Christopher Kindo, whom I swear learns his Afrikaans lines phonetically, unfortunately not without error. And unfortunately not able to hide the confused expression of fear when striking a blank due to a new phonetic expression not wanting to cooperate. But even apart from this hideous language issue, Kyknet’s choice of judges are still frightfully… frightful. They were probably decent dancers at some point of their life. But these unfortunate people were definitely not chosen for this role because of their charisma, presence, good looks or witty lines… It is not their fault dear reader. They are dancers. And now some casting director has exposed them like a lamb amongst wolves - to be slaughtered. WOOF. Let me stop.
Don’t forget the prizes of free dance lessons for you and your mother at Fred Astaire dance studios (this is not a joke) and (wait for it) free air tickets on Mango Air… Let me stop.
We’re not venturing into the subject of general production, editing, screenplay, concept, structure…. Let me stop. Suddenly I have an appreciation for Idols, So you think you can Dance etc…
Fittingly, TELKOM is involved (I burst out laughing when I saw this), with a blue call box on stage where the host ‘mime calls’ somebody to get some valuable information concerning who should step forward because they MIGHT be eliminated.
I needed to get this out in order to go sleep now.
Forgive me.
