Dance with Peter reality TV show sponsored by Globacom last Saturday took the route of Afrobeat in a contest tagged ‘Afrobeat Street Challenge.’
The talented dancers were saddled with the task of doing trending African street dance steps such as Azonto, Alanta, Skelewu, Galala, Sekem, Shakiti and many others. They were to perform the dance steps choosing any African music.
The 15 remaining members of the academy were trained by the three substantive judges comprising dance choreographer, Don Flexx, dance queen, Kaffy, and PSquare twin, Peter Okoye.
Team Flex comprised MX, Yemi, Kevin, T-Rubber, Nekky and G-Extreme; Team Kaffy had Paulette, Messiah, Julius Faktah and Amazing Amy, while Team Peter comprised C-Fly, Miracle, Tee Jay, Da Octopus and Bobby Blankson.
Dancer Miracle performed Toofan’s Gweta and May D’s Ibadi, MX did JJC’s Motiwa and Da Octopus performed Konga’s Kabaka. For Teejay, it was Omawumi’s Somori, G-Extreme who performed Lil Keshi’s Gbese, C-Fly chose Cabo Snoop’s Prakatatumba as Nekky performed PSquare and Awilo’s Enemy Solo.
Messiah went for DJ Spinall’s Excuse me; T-Rubber performed Koffi Olomide’s Eta Major; Kelvin did DJ Arafat’s Chebele, while Julius Faktah performed Toofan’s Orobo as Amazing Amy did Almok’s Gweta.
Afro pop singer, Burna Boy, who came as guest judge on the show expressed pleasant surprise at the energy and theatrics of the housemates who battled to remain in the academy as the battle has become stiffer. Burna Boy was particularly impressed by MX’s ability to switch dance steps and easy transit making him to exclaim, “that was really good MX, how did you do that? I’m really impressed, keep it up.”
On the contrary, Don Flexx was not very impressed by Tee Jay’s outing and subsequently advised her to pay more attention to her body movements and rhythm. “When you began your performance, I was enthusiastic that you would sail through, but you dropped your energy right at the middle and lost concentration. You also need to watch your movements,” he said.
However, it was Da Octopus’ lucky day as all three judges gave a standing ovation to his excellent performance. Peter described his outing as mind-blowing and thereafter charged him to sustain his energy to the finals. “You blew my mind Da Octopus, but you need to maintain that energy with which you performed tonight.” he admonished.
Same could sadly not be said for Paulette, Yemi and Bobby Blankson who were evicted from the academy having been on probation since the last edition. The trio had the lowest votes from the public, and was consequently sent home from the academy. Peter Okoye expressed the belief that in spite of their eviction from the academy, they had potentials of becoming great dancers and living out their dreams. Dance queen, Kaffy, encouraged them to remain focused, dogged and never to relent on their dreams saying she had received immense inspiration from their determination to succeed.
Lucky members of the audience who have won prizes in the voting and Trivia games received their prizes including iPhones, Glo Mifi, Modems, recharge cards and cash.
A repeat of last night’s interesting episode is available on African Independent Television (AIT) on Sunday at 5 p.m. for the benefit of viewers who missed the first broadcast.
The show also runs on MTVBase on Wednesdays from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Globacom charged the public to vote for their preferred contestant by sending his or her code to 55518 at the cost of N50 per SMS.
Contestants that are up for eviction are MX, Miracle, Messiah, Tee Jay and Nekky.
Globacom disclosed that voting lines are open from 8 p.m. on Saturday to 12 midnight on Monday.