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Bravo is headed to the ballroom.
E! News tin exclusively uncover the archetypal trailer for the caller series Dancing Queens starring six amateur ballroom dancers who volition halt astatine thing to prosecute their passionateness of competing in Pro-Am World of Dance competitions crossed the country.
"Everyone has a hobby," 1 formed subordinate teases successful a voice-over while different adds, "but ours costs six figures a year."
From paying apical dollar for the champion creation teachers to going each retired connected bedazzled costumes, hairsbreadth and makeup, these ladies are committed to being—and looking—the champion connected the creation floor.
"If it takes sounding similar a porn prima to win," competitor Sabrina Strasser states successful the preview, "I'm each for it."
Meanwhile, Leonie Biggs admits spending thousands connected a sexy show getup is "better than buying a wedding dress."
She adds, "I similar to beryllium the champion astatine things. My dada would say, 'Don't speech to maine unless you're first.'"
And their shared passionateness for being No. 1 successful the spotlight takes precedence implicit their idiosyncratic lives and families.
"From stay-at-home moms to concern owners and a concern exec, these women enactment their lives speech erstwhile it comes to dance," reads Bravo's April 10 announcement. "In the ballroom, they support their composure, but down the scenes, the women are consenting to sabotage their frenemies successful the sanction of competition, adjacent going arsenic acold arsenic poaching pro-partners for a accidental to win. These dancers stock an obsession with winning, nary substance the cost."
But amid their fierce routines and high-stakes competition, there's besides a unit to look a definite mode connected the creation floor, Donie Burch reveals.
"There is simply a precise accepted Latin look, and I deliberation that affects however I place," she admits successful the archetypal look, adding, "I'm conscionable ne'er going to look similar that."
Check retired the drama-filled trailer above, and support scrolling to larn much astir the Dancing Queens formed below.
Dancing Queens premieres Tuesday, May 9, astatine 9 p.m. connected Bravo.
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Pooja Mehta (Scottsdale, AZ)
A self-described rebel from a household of doctors, Pooja is simply a constitution creator with a palmy quality business. She and her hubby are raising their 2 children with a premix of Jewish and Hindu traditions. Dancing is simply a household affair—Pooja and her parent and sister each creation with Collette's ex-pro partner, Kristijan Burazer. Previously a champion successful the bushed category, she precocious switched to Latin to vie alongside her household and beryllium that she tin win successful their class too.
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Colette Marotto (Scottsdale, AZ)
As a concern proprietor and azygous parent to a lad with peculiar needs, Colette has a batch of accent successful her beingness and dancing allows her to absorption connected herself and hide her responsibilities. Recently, her pro creation spouse near her to vie with Pooja, forcing her to find a caller pro, Oleksiy "Alex" Pigotskyy, and commencement from scratch. Her ballroom breakup created hostility betwixt the women and lit a occurrence wrong Colette to beryllium adjacent much palmy to beryllium to her erstwhile pro that she tin triumph without him.
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Donie Burch (New York City, NY)
Donie has been dancing her full beingness and studied creation show successful college. This apical performer and her partner, Iliah Vinikovskiy, are determined to amusement the judges that she's 1 of the champion dancers successful the country. While she whitethorn not person a "typical" dancer's physique, Donie fears the judges are standing her quality much than her ability. Currently single, Donnie's obsession with creation leaves her small country for uncovering a spouse disconnected the floor.
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Gaëlle Benchetrit (New York City, NY)
Gaëlle was making a sanction for herself successful the ballroom circuit earlier her caller gestation forced her into a hiatus. Now backmost connected the creation floor, she's anxious to beryllium that she's amended than ever. Sparing nary expense, her partner, Nino Langella, is 1 of the apical nonrecreational dancers successful the satellite and the envy of the different women.
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Leonie Biggs (Haworth, NJ)
Leonie is simply a perfectionist who doesn't similar to instrumentality connected thing unless she tin beryllium the champion astatine it. With a afloat plate, she balances beingness arsenic a woman and parent with her high-powered vocation successful finance. This creation season, Leonie has a caller pro partner, Koysta Samarskyi, which adds stress, uncertainty and further hours of practicing earlier she feels acceptable to compete. Fiercely competitory successful nature, she feels the unit to beryllium a title ballroom dancer and bushed retired the different ladies to gain the coveted archetypal place.
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Sabrina Strasser (Toronto, Canada)
Stay-at-home mom, Sabrina finds herself astatine likelihood betwixt her dancing and household life. In a contentious on-again, off-again narration with her pro dancer, Stanislav Kochergin, the 2 are backmost unneurotic and Sabrina is acceptable to assertion the apical prize. Her thrust to triumph demands her clip and energy—sometimes astatine the disbursal of her children and husband, who fears that Sabrina's hobby takes attraction distant from their beingness astatine home.
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