On Friday, at the ninth show of the current season of "Let's Dance", she got the highest rating again: 30 points. Anna Ermakova will win "Let's Dance" this year, if nothing comes up. In all likelihood, there will be a showdown between her and the former gymnast Philipp Boy in the end – who has also continued to improve over the past episodes, who has also turned his sporting talent into an artistic one and forms a ravishing couple with his professional dance partner Patricija Ionel.
But Anna Ermakova has been sensational from the very beginning. In addition to her body and tact, she brings an aura to her dances with the professional Valentin Lusin, which unfolds differently with each new task, regardless of whether it is a slow waltz or Charleston – and to appear mysterious in the over-the-top and funny Charleston is something you have to do first.
It is this fragile and strong seriousness, which is difficult to describe, that turns their dances into narratives. The jury loves her, her competitors – Philipp Boy, Sharon Battiste, Jens Knossalla or Timon Krause – apparently love her too, at least they all freak out after every dance. The audience is unstoppable anyway.
This is nothing new with "Let's Dance". The RTL show is the empowerment festival of German television. For a few episodes now, all dancers, no matter how good they were, have received ritual standing ovations from the audience.
But with Anna Ermakova, the daughter of model Angela Ermakova, it is once again differently intense. Anna grew up in London, where she studied art history. She is currently learning German, the language of her biological father Boris Becker.
And how Anna Ermakova, who looks a lot like her father, copes not only with the physical exertion of the increasingly tough dance competitions, but also with the voyeuristic interests of the tabloid media, which of course follow her every step closely, how Anna hardly seems to believe anew in each episode that she is met with so much love that she is so praised: For that alone, she would have to win "Let's Dance" 2023.
But Anna Ermakova also dances simply stunningly.