Motsi Mabuse

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Motsi Mabuse at the "Gloria" cosmetics award (2016)

Motshegetsi "Motsi" Mabuse-Voznyuk (born April 11, 1981 in Mankwe , Bophuthatswana , South Africa ) is a South African - German dancer , dance trainer and judge for standard and Latin American dances .

Career

Motsi Mabuse's family moved to Pretoria when she was five years old. At the age of eleven she took dance lessons at the North-West Arts Council. She attended Hillview High School . She graduated from school at the age of 17 and began studying law at the University of Pretoria to take over her father's law firm. In favor of her dance career, she soon gave up studying. After becoming South African runner-up in Latin American dances , she came to Germany at the age of 18. She has lived in Stockstadt am Main since 2000 .

At the Blackpool Dance Festival in 1999 she met the dancer Timo Kulczak . The couple married in 2003 and danced together for the dance club Schwarz-Weiß-Club Pforzheim in the main group S-Latin until 2011 . The split from her husband was announced on October 13, 2014. From 2011 to 2014 she danced with the Ukrainian Evgenij Voznyuk among the professionals. Mabuse ended her professional dance career on May 23, 2014 with a farewell dance on the RTL dance show Let's Dance . She has been in a relationship with Voznyuk since 2015 and married to him since June 2017. In August 2018, Mabuse gave birth to a daughter. She and her husband run a dance school in Eschborn .

Her sister Otlile , who is nine years her junior and also lives as a dancer and dance trainer in Germany, took part in Let's Dance in 2016 . Her sister Phemelo, who was three years younger than her, was the South African junior master in ballroom and Latin dance.

Television appearances

Motsi Mabuse at the German Television Award 2012

Let's dance

Motsi Mabuse became known nationwide in 2007 through the second season of the RTL dance show Let's Dance , in which she danced horn with Guildo . The couple dropped out in the fifth show and finished in 6th place. In 2010, she danced alongside Rolf Scheider in the third season and reached fifth place. The couple had already left in the first broadcast, but received a second chance after Arthur Abraham volunteered .

Mabuse has been a member of the Let's Dance jury since 2011 . In 2015 she was also a member of the jury for the Let's Dance offshoot Stepping Out . Since August 2019 Mabuse has also been on the jury for the British Let's Dance edition Strictly Come Dancing .

Motsi Mabuse at Let's Dance
Season (year) Dance partner placement
2 (2007) Guildo Horn 06th
3 (2010) Rolf Scheider 05.
since the 4th season (2011) juror

Further television and stage appearances

Mabuse was part of the ARD team for the 2010 World Cup and provided background reports from South Africa. In 2011 she replaced Bruce Darnell in the jury of the fifth season of Das Supertalent .

In 2016 she made her debut as an actress at the 66th Bad Hersfeld Festival in Hexenjagd , directed by Dieter Wedel . In the same year she was a member of the jury for RTL II - Plus-Size-Model - Castingshow Curvy Supermodel - Echt. Nice. Curvy . In 2018 she became the presenter of the new styling show Wer macht mich schön on RTLplus . She is also part of the advice team for the show Big Performance - Who is the star in the star? on RTL.

successes

  • South African Vice-Champion Latin 1998
  • Finalist German Championship Hgr. S-Latin 2003 to 2007
  • German Vice-Champion Hgr. S-Latin 2006 and 2007
  • German Championship Hgr. S-Latin 2009 and 2010
  • German Championship Professionals Latin 2013
  • Finalist World Cup Latin 2005 and other world ranking tournaments

Works

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Motsi Mabuse as a guest at the Tanzsportclub . Südkurier . October 22, 2014. Retrieved on January 5, 2015: "She is a South African dancer [...] She now has German citizenship."
  2. ↑ a b Motsi Mabuse becomes the new Bruce Darnell , tvspielfilm.de, accessed on July 1, 2017
  3. ↑ Кто такая Мотси Мабусе? ( Russian ) Русская Германия № 4, 2014. January 24, 2014. Accessed January 23, 2015.
  4. ↑ Motshegetsi (Motsi) Mabuse “I was 18 when I came to Germany from South Africa” ( Memento from October 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Let's Dance 2014: Portrait of South Africa's export hit Motsi Mabuse. In: Discover Cape Town. April 4, 2014, accessed February 26, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Short distances - Birkehoj / Kravchenko (Karlsruhe) represent DTV for the World Cup and Kulczak / Mabuse (Pforzheim) in Karlsruhe. (PDF; 1.5 MB) In: Tanzsport.de. Tanzspiegel, May 2006, accessed May 10, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Motsi Mabuse & Timo Kulczak separated after eleven years of marriage . vip.de . October 17, 2014. Retrieved January 5, 2015.
  8. ↑ Mabuse & Voznyuk . Mabuse & Voznyuk. Retrieved April 15, 2015.
  9. ↑ "Let's Dance": Alexander Klaws helps Jorge to climax , Focus, May 23, 2014. Retrieved May 26, 2014.
  10. ↑ Motsi Mabuse's heart is dancing - Evgenij Voznyuk: That's the man by your side , express.de from May 5, 2017
  11. ↑ Motsi Mabuse married her fiancé , focus.de on June 26, 2017, accessed on June 26, 2017
  12. ↑ Motsie Mabuse became a mom , express.de from August 7, 2018, accessed on August 7, 2018
  13. ↑ Motsi, Oti & Phemelo Will the third Mabuse sister also come to “Let's Dance”? , express.de from June 5, 2015, accessed on April 27, 2019
  14. ↑ End of the line for Rolfe and Motsi. In: RTL.de . May 8, 2010, accessed May 10, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Motsi Mabuse: First day with "Strictly Come Dancing"! , Gala, accessed August 28, 2019
  16. ^ Heidi Estler: "Motsi" Mabuse is a South Africa expert for ARD at the World Cup. In: Tanzsport.de. April 22, 2010, accessed May 10, 2020 .
  17. ↑ Maik Rico y Gomez: "We want to be taken seriously" , T-Online.de, July 23, 2010.
  18. ↑ The super talent: Motsi Mabuse replaces Bruce Darnell , OK! Magazine , July 19, 2011. (Accessed July 19, 2011).
  19. ↑ Bad Hersfeld Festival officially opened - "witch hunt" to kick off. In: echo-online.de. Darmstädter Echo , June 24, 2016, accessed on May 10, 2020 .
  20. ↑ RTL comeback for Michelle Hunziker on STERN Kultur

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personal data
SURNAME Mabuse, Motsi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mabuse, Motshegetsi (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION south african dancer
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Mankwe , Bophuthatswana , South Africa