Daniella Karagach
Disney/Eric McCandlessDaniella Karagach corrects the rumors that she Dancing with the stars routines.
“I just got this sent to me,” Karagach, 31, wrote on her Instagram story on Sunday, September 22, under a screenshot of a Facebook post with pictures of her and a man together in a dance studio. In a subsequent Instagram story video, she then explained her “process of choreography.”
“For me, I always choreograph in my head. And then, because I’m lucky enough to have my husband (Pasha Pashkov), who is a dancer, is also in the show. We’ll do it in our living room and see if it works.”
Since she and Pashkov, 38, had “different schedules” the day before, she turned to a friend to help her plan her new routine. “I asked one of my really good friends, Ronald to come and be a body for me and just listen to my choreography and have him learn what I wanted to do so that I could see that it made sense. And if it didn’t make sense, I would change it,” she explained. “I’m very lucky to have these friends who sacrifice two hours of their day to come and see if my choreography works, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t choreograph my dance.”
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Karagach said she was “upset” that people had tried to “discredit my choreography” after seeing photos of her and Ronald together in the studio. “(I) won’t speak for everyone because I don’t know if everyone choreographs their own dances. But personally, I work really hard to make sure my dances are unique and adapted to my partners, and I don’t usually have outside help,” she explained. “If I ever have any, I will always give credit to you. And in general, Pasha is usually the only person who really helps me with choreography when I really need it.”
She further praised her boyfriend Ronald for “giving up two hours of the day to help me just be my body and see if my choreography, my vision, could come to life,” adding, “I just wanted to give him credit because he deserves it, but that doesn’t mean you have to discredit me as a choreographer because I work my ass off to make sure I create things that put a smile on your face. So, I just wanted to get that out there.”
Daniella Karagach and Dwight Howard
Disney/Eric McCandlessKaragach caused a sensation with her partner Dwight Howard for the premiere of the 33rd season of DWTS on September 17th and received the second highest score of the evening for her salsa to “This Is How We Do It” by Montell Jordan. Karagach used the large size difference to his advantage, incorporating several impressive lifts and twists into his debut routine.
“We started rehearsals late and I had the choreography already planned. And when we first got into the studio to actually start rehearsing, I realized I had to pretty much change my entire choreography because I couldn’t do it around him,” Karagach told exclusively We weekly after the season premiere. “He was so big, I couldn’t get past him. … So I had to change pretty much everything. It was crazy.”
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She and Howard, 38, will perform a routine to “City of Stars” from the film LaLaLand on the Oscar night episode of the show on Tuesday, September 24.
Dancing with the stars airs simultaneously on ABC and Disney+ on Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET. Episodes can be streamed the next day on Hulu and Disney+.
