Top Strictly teacher Oti Mabuse

OHMYGOSSIP — Oti Mabuse has boasted that she can make any novice dancer look “amazing” with hard work.
The 28-year-old Latin and ballroom expert will be back on ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ this year and she insists with her tough work ethic she could make any beginner realise their full potential on the dancefloor.
In an interview with The Guardian newspaper, Oti said: “You have a choice to work four hours a day but we would do 10. I can make a beginner, anyone with no dance experience, look amazing if we put in the hours. I am so strict. I take it really seriously, because I would be doing you a disservice if I couldn’t push you to your fullest, if I was like, ‘OK, 20 per cent is enough.’ I genuinely think people don’t know their own potential – until someone comes and demands it of you, saying, ‘I see more. I believe in you!’ ”
Oti – who acted as a ‘Dance Captain’ on Simon Cowell’s new talent show for the BBC, ‘The Greatest Dancer’ – believes a great dancer is someone who can “communicate” through their art and use their skills to “make people cry” and move them emotionally.
The South African star said: “I’ve learned in this country [Britain] that people love it when the dancers can connect. So they want a great dancer who can communicate through dance, who gets people emotionally, makes you cry – and is entertaining.”
Oti also believes that documentary maker Stacey Dooley – who won the glitterball trophy on ‘Strictly’ last year – was so popular with viewers because they invested in her journey from inexperienced dancer to ballroom star.
She said: “So they love Stacey Dooley, who’s never danced before. They like to see people who’ve worked the hardest succeed. And there’s a lot of support when you feel somebody’s not been treated right.”

Source: Female First
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