Rasputin

"Rasputin" by is featured on, , ,  (as a downloadable track), , and.

Appearance of the Dancer
The dancer is a man wearing a traditional Russian costume. He has a beard, he is wearing a Papacha, a Russian cap. He also has a dark green jacket with a red scarf, violet pants, and black boots are also worn.

Background
The background is a winter landscape composing of a frozen lake, several evergreen trees and St. Basil's Cathedral, one of the most iconic building in Moscow, Russia. Snow can be seen falling in the background and the frozen lake shows the reflection of the trees, the coach, and the Cathedral.

Gold Moves
There is 1 Gold Move in this routine:

Gold Move: Jump and open your arms. This is the final move of the routine.

Appearances in Mashups
Rasputin appears in the following Mashups:


 * Apache (Jump On It)
 * Dynamite
 * Good Feeling
 * Irish Meadow Dance
 * Limbo
 * Maneater
 * Moskau
 * Never Can Say Goodbye (Best of JD 2)
 * Oh No!
 * She Wolf (Falling to Pieces)
 * Teacher (Costume Party)
 * Tribal Dance
 * Uptown Funk (Behind the Scenes)
 * What Makes You Beautiful
 * YMCA
 * You’re the First, the Last, My Everything

Captions
Rasputin appears in Puppet/Party Master Modes. Here are the captions attributed to his dance moves:
 * Happy Rasputin
 * Kazatchok
 * Mujik
 * Russian Bounce
 * Russian Hat
 * Russian Plane
 * Russian Rumble
 * Russian Sidestep
 * Russian Skip
 * Russian Tilt
 * Russian Violin
 * Smooth Kazatchok

Dance Quests
Rasputin appears on the following Dance Quest maps:
 * Special New Year

Trivia

 * Rasputin is the first song by Boney M. in the series.
 * Boney M., along with Jamiroquai, have the second longest gap between their songs. Their most recent songs are Daddy Cool and Automaton, both on, making a gap of seven games.
 * The coach for this routine is a returning dancer on three different songs on, namely Hungarian Dance No. 5 (P2), Y.M.C.A. (P1), and Sugar (P2).
 * The choreography might be an attempt to replicate the, a Ukrainian dance.
 * Interesting enough, the songs lyrics mention the above dance.
 * The coach resembles, a Russian historical figure whose life is told in this song.
 * The song is cut off right before the line "Ra ra Rasputin, Russia's greatest love machine, And so they shot him til he was dead". This is most likely to keep the game family-friendly.
 * The background reappears in Spice Up Your Life.
 * The end of the song uses the effect (the void-like effect that makes silhouettes overlap) after the Gold Move.
 * However, this does not happen in the remake.
 * The dancer does very complicated moves after the Gold Move, though these moves are not counted for.
 * This also happened with Party Rock Anthem, Hey Ya, Satisfaction and Rockafeller Skank.
 * This the first song which has been remade in and then re-remade in : in fact, the place where the coach dances is completely white in, but in Greatest Hits it is bluish (like in ).
 * This happened because the lyrics in blended with the snow, thus being unreadable.
 * However, this is only the case on Xbox; the Wii version of both games use the same background as.
 * On the version of the avatar, his mouth is comparatively closer to the moustache.
 * This coach makes a cameo appearance in the background of Uptown Funk.
 * The song contains a German word, "wunderbar", which means "wonderfully".
 * In the menu icon, the coach's face, cap and beard have a red outline.
 * In the original version, some pictograms have yellow arrows instead of red arrows.
 * This was fixed on the Wii versions of, Greatest Hits and Best Of, as well as in the remake.
 * A picture of the routine appears in the background of the Tutorial mode from.
 * One of the pictograms in this routine has a double-headed arrow. Unlike other songs from that were recycled for, , , or , this was not changed or replaced by a different pictogram.
 * This also happens with Toxic.
 * The remade coach is slightly different in versus . In the former game, he is the same size as his original version and his glowing outline fades towards his feet. In the latter, he is slightly smaller and his glow is thinner and does not fade.
 * As seen in a picture, the coach’s boots were initially green instead of black-green.

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