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The year is coming to an end and it is time to start the advent calendar again.
In the first door, I present to you the winning pair of this year’s Finnish DWTS: Ernest Lawson and Anniina Koivuniemi.
In the video link you can see their great freestyle dance from the finals.
(And by the way, if anyone is unsure, Ernest is a dance student (actress) and Anniina is a teacher. They are fairly equal dancers. If you don’t know, you may not notice the difference …)
The Winners: Sami Helenius & Virpi Sarasvuo on finals. They took us to the moods of Notting Hill. I love this song and the movie!
The Dancing With The Stars winners (Finland) have been chosen…and the winners are Sami Helenius & Virpi Sarasvuo (ex-skier). It means that my favorite couple: Miisa & Marko were left without a prize but they did their best and their dances remain in my heart. Good performance from them, however! Fortunately they were involved to the end of competition!
The nebula on the dance floor is over. Thanks to all the contestants for the beautiful and entertaining moments you offered on Sunday evenings and congratulations to winners!
My favorite couple: Miisa & Marko. I love tango and this song is my favorite! This performance was also one of the best on this season!
Season 13.episode 10. Miisa and Marko Keränen. With this ”Phantom Of The opera” themed paso doble they got full 30 points. It is absolutely stylish!
I was gonna made a post of dancing with the stars semifinals which should have been on Sunday. I was waited this semifinal episode a whole week and then when Sunday finally came, I went to net and clicked the show on. Then I realized that actually isn’t semifinal episode at all. There was just an episode where judges did memorize the best dances of previous seasons. Later when I was searching on net, I found the news about this. There were said that someone on Dancing with the stars team had covid -19 virus and that’s why the semifinal episode was cancelled.
Season 11. Boxer: Edis Tatli and Katri Mäkinen. Amazing fiery tango!
I’m disappointed that I couldn’t see my favorite vlogger: Miisa on the dancefloor as every sunday! Let’s see if DWTS can move on or will they quit it. Actually they shouldn’t even start the show this year. It would have been better if they just had decide not to show it but they did, and now when I have been watching it every week, what a pity it would be if it ends unfinished. Well, just have to wait and see.
Miss Finland 2010 Viivi Pumpanen ja Matti Puro 2011.
Earlier on this season there were covid -19 case on one of the DWTS orchester members and they did switch the orchester for a week. Now only two weeks after that another case of the virus occured…
This covid -19 have totally ruined my life in every possible way. It almost have took my mentall healthy away too and I know I’m not the only one who feels this way. Maybe you too are feeling this way, or are you? Are you as worried than I am now when I’m almost loosing my mind because of the fear (specially now when this covid-19 have started to spread here in Finland too?)
Season 12. epidode 10. Singer Jannika B and Aleksi Seppänen. Truly one of the best dances in ”TTK” history. So beautiful and emotional!
There is not much else to do than only pray to God to make this end and make the world normal again…on the meantime we can try to relax with watching these beautiful dance shows…maybe it helps…even a little!
Season 12. episode 6.An actor Christoffer Strandberg and Matti Puro. This dance was historic in DWTS Finland last year. It was the first time we saw two men on the dance floor. I must say it felt weard for me at first when I heard this was coming but this is great dance and the more I watch it, the more I just see two great dancer, without thinking it’s two men dancing. Maybe even this ”granny” can still learn new, fresh perspectives.
I finally got together this second compilation amazing dance shows! (Time have flied so fast again. I’m sorry this post took a while!)
Live show 4. My favorite couple: Miisa and Marko: Foxtrot. I love this song!
Live show 5. Miisa & Marko. Miisas dress is beautiful and that lift is just perfecto!! Miisa is in great position with ankles stretched. She looks like professional dancer. That’s something you don’t see too often in this show (made by star students). It’s surely not so simple to make it look as elegant as she does!
Live show 7.Movie theme evening: Saturday night fever marathon challenge. This show was fun!
Live show 7. Miisa & Marko in the moods of the Mouling rouge tango. Great show, great costumes, great singer…all was just great! I loved this all of my heart but the judges only gave 3 times 8=24.
Live show 7. Niklas & Kia: Star Wars.
Live show 7. Jukka & Katri: Dirty Dancing…(with that classic lift. By the way I made that lift with my big brother as a child when this was our favorite movie.)
Live show 8. Halloween evening. I’m not the biggest fan of Halloween but I liked this show and the whole part!
Live show 8. Jukka & Katri. This was my favorite show on Halloween evening. Those characters are deceased stars of abandoned circus. Great story, great costumes and great choreography!
Live show 8. This may not be Miisas best performance but I liked it even judges criticized it quite hardly because of the mistakes. (They did anyway praise her legs!) Miisa told on her youtube channel that she’s disappointed with this performance and that she fell in after that show at home. Completely in vain!! Anyone can get black out sometimes but it doesn’t matter! You still look great!
Hyvä Miisa! Jatka samaan malliin. Älä huoli virheistä, ei niihin kiinnitä huomiota, muut kuin tuomarit!
The tension condenses…Who will be the winner 2020…
This Spanish sparkling wine we did by to celebrate my commercial poem. It was quite dry but still good tasting wine. Not bad at all.
Finally it’s official and done…I mean thecomercial convention I told you some time ago. Specifically Finnish marketing company bought my poem for ”Dancing with the Stars” -program commercial to channel 3 (commercial television). The finnish version of ”Dancing With the Stars” is starting again in autumn and this commercial with my poem came out at Monday.
I was so surprised that it was my poem they found (here at my blog, post: ”runoja 5/poems 5”) and it was the poem they wanted to use!
At first I thought my poem might be maybe little bit too deep for entertainment program but it’s actually working well. It depends how you take it. It doesn’t have to be taken too serious even that was my vision when I wrote it. I made it to be more like ”the dance of life”.
”Dancing With the Stars” is one of my favorite programs! I have watched every season of it. This is my dream come true!
My poem is read by famous finnish dancer and choreographer: Jorma Uotinen. What a great honor!
You can read my poem below first in finnish (naturally) and then there is my translation to english. I’m not sure if it’s working so well but atleast I tried. I think you can catch the idea.
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Minä tanssin. Tanssin yli esteiden. Tanssin ohi päivien. Tanssin läpi vuosien.
Minä tanssin. Tanssin vaikka väsyttää. Tanssin kohti päämäärää. Tanssin askeleen viimeiseen.
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In english: I’m dancing. Dancing over barriers. Dancing pass the days. Dancing through the years.
I’m dancing. Dancing though tired. Dancing to the target. Dancing till my final step.
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