Does Maksim decide the theme and song, or do you get some input?
The show gives us a song and then if we just hate it, they will give us something different. But, for the most part, we’re stuck with what they give us. Max actually comes up with the choreography. Lately, I’ve been getting more involved because when the judges don’t like something, if they didn’t like the choreography or whatever, they seem to always point at me and blame me. So I said, “I might as well get involved, I’m going to be taking the blame anyway.” What kind of input do you usually have? Max is a dancing purist but, you know, he’s been on the show for three seasons and he’s never won. I think the key to winning is make this more of a show, to have a story line, not just steps. People see that I can dance, so we need to give them something more exciting — the wow factor — so we’re working on that. Do you have any choice in your costumes? Some of the costumes can get pretty crazy. Oh yeah! All of us get to say what we want our costumes to look like. I’m 100 percent involved
