Motsi Mabuse

Motsi Mabuse
Born 11 April 1981
Mankwe
Nationality South Africa
Known for Dancing on German TV

Motsi Mabuse or Motshegetsi Mabuse (born 11 April 1981) is a South African dancer who has appeared on the German TV program Let's Dance. She originally appeared as a dancer but became a judge of the show.[1]

Life

Mabuse was born in Mankwe in 1981 in what was then the nominal Republic of Bophutatswana.[2] Her birthplace became part of South Africa and her family moved to Pretoria when she was five. Whilst in Pretoria her sister Oti was born and they both took an interest in dancing.[1]

Mabuse was expected to become a lawyer and join the family law firm but she became intrigued by dancing whilst studying at University of Pretoria. Her education moved to dancing and in 1998 she was the runner up in the National championships. The following year she found her dance and romantic partner, Timo Kulczak at the British open championships in Blackpool.[2] They married in 2003 and they competed in international dance competitions from their home in Germany.[3]

In the fourth series of Let's Dance Mabuse took over as judge[1] from Isabel Edvardsson.

In 2013 she won the German Latin dance contest with the Ukrainian dancer Evgenij Voznyuk. The following year her marriage to Kulczak ended[4] and she published a book about her life in German.[5] In 2015 she was with Voznyuk. She became Motsi Mabuse-Voznyuk in a small legal ceremony before celebrating with more guests in Mallorca in 2017.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Strictly Come Dancing - Oti Mabuse - BBC One". BBC. Retrieved 2018-07-23.
  2. 1 2 Online, TV Spielfilm. ""Das Supertalent"-Jury: Motsi Mabuse wird der neue Bruce Darnell - TV SPIELFILM". TV Spielfilm Online (in German). Retrieved 2018-07-23.
  3. ↑ "Motsi Mabuse | Steckbrief, Bilder und News". WEB.DE News (in German). Retrieved 2018-07-23.
  4. 1 2 "Heimlich auf Mallorca! Motsi Mabuse hat Evgenij Voznyuk geheiratet". rtlnext.rtl.de (in German). Retrieved 2018-07-23.
  5. ↑ 1981-, Mabuse, Motsi,. Chili im Blut : mein Tanz durchs Leben. Carstensen, Regina, (Originalausgabe ed.). Köln. ISBN 9783431039139. OCLC 904085280.
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