Welcome to Pure Dancing with the Stars

The 2008 Dancing with the Stars Tour dates and locations have been announced. You can purchase tickets to the show on Ticketmaster.

The following Dancers and professionals are planning to be on tour: Lance Bass, Toni Braxton, Maurice Greene, Marlee Matlin, Mark Ballas, Cheryl Burke, Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Derek Hough, Kym Johnson, Alec Mazo, Fabian Sanchez, Lacey Schwimmer, Edyta Sliwinska, and Karina Smirnoff.

December 2008
17 - San Diego, CA - San Diego Sports Arena - Buy Tickets Online
18 - Ontario, CA - Citizens Business Bank Arena - Buy Tickets Online
19 - San Jose, CA - HP Pavilion - Buy Tickets Online
21 - Reno, NV - Reno Events Center - Buy Tickets Online
22 - Sacramento, CA - ARCO Arena - Buy Tickets Online
27 - Los Angeles, CA - Staples Center - Buy Tickets Online
28 - Glendale, AZ - Jobing.com Arena - Buy Tickets Online
29 - Las Vegas, NV - Orleans Arena - Buy Tickets Online
30 - Salt Lake City, UT - E Center - Buy Tickets Online

January 2009
2 - Tulsa, OK - BOK Center - Buy Tickets Online
4 - Dallas, TX - American Airlines Center - Buy Tickets Online
5 - San Antonio, TX AT&T Center - Buy Tickets Online
7 - Kansas City, MO - Sprint Center - Buy Tickets Online
8 - Moline, IL - i wireless Center - Buy Tickets Online
9 - Rosemont, IL - Allstate Arena - Buy Tickets Online
11 - Detroit, MI - Joe Louis Arena - Buy Tickets Online
12 - Toronto, Ontario - Air Canada Centre - Buy Tickets Online
13 - Cleveland, OH - Wolstein Center - Buy Tickets Online
15 - Indianapolis, IN - Conseco Fieldhouse - Buy Tickets Online
16 - St. Louis, MO - Scottrade Center - Buy Tickets Online
17 - Cincinnati, OH - US Bank Arena - Buy Tickets Online
18 - Columbus, OH - Nationwide Arena - Buy Tickets Online
20 - Nashville, TN - Sommet Center - Buy Tickets Online
22 - Tampa, FL - St. Pete Times Forum - Buy Tickets Online
23 - Sunrise, FL - BankAtlantic Center - Buy Tickets Online
24 - Orlando, FL - Amway Arena - Buy Tickets Online
25 - Atlanta, GA - Gwinnett Center - Buy Tickets Online
27 - Greensboro, NC - Greensboro Coliseum - Buy Tickets Online
28 - Raleigh, NC - RBC Center - Buy Tickets Online
29 - Washington, DC - Verizon Center - Buy Tickets Online
30, 31 - Uncasville, CT - Mohegan Sun Arena - Buy Tickets Online

February 2009
2 - Providence, RI - Dunkin Donuts Center - Buy Tickets Online
3 - Wilkes Barre, PA - Wachovia Arena - Buy Tickets Online
4 - Uniondale, NY - Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum - Buy Tickets Online
6 - Newark, NJ - Prudential Center - Buy Tickets Online
7 - Atlantic City, NJ - Boardwalk Hall - Buy Tickets Online
8 - Philadelphia, PA - Wachovia Center - Buy Tickets Online

If you are planning to attend the Dancing with the Stars tour, let us know in the comments. We’d love to have you post your experience going to the tour and any pictures you might take from the tour.

Brad Paisley did indeed rejoin Julianne Hough on Dancing with the Stars tonight. Along with a cool appearance of Benji Schwimmer with his sister Lacey. Check out the music from the results show:

Lacey Schwimmer & Benji Schwimmer danced to Brad Paisley singing “Ticks”

Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Karina Smirnoff, Alec Mazo, Edyta Śliwińska, Genya Mazo & Kym Johnson danced to Brad Paisley singing “Let the Good Times Roll”

Design-A-Dance by Derek Hough & Julianne Hough dancing a Jive to the song “Great Balls of Fire”

I’m also very glad to say that I was right about Derek and Julianne being the design a dance couple. I love when I’m right. This does show that Derek and Julianne are the most popular professional dancers too. I wonder how the other professionals feel about that.

If you’re looking for the performance show music you can find it here. Below is the music from the DWTS results show and Junior Ballroom Dance Competition.

11 & 12 Junior Ballroom Dance Competition
Anthony & Alisa danced a Jive to the song “Fun, Fun, Fun”—The Beach Boys

12 & 13 Junior Ballroom Dance Competition
Mitchell & Maria danced a Paso Doble to the song “España Cañi”—Pascual Marquina Narro

Len Goodman voted for Anthony & Alisa
Carrie Ann Inaba & Bruno Tonioli voted for Mitchell & Maria

Professional Dance Number
Louis van Amstel & Karina Smirnoff danced to “Rock This Town” by Brian Setzer Orchestra

Group Professional Dance Number
“Universal Mind Control”—Common
- Music Video

Julianne Hough’s Singing of “My Hallelujah Song” was delayed to November 11th.

Check out all the samba music and tango music from tonight’s episode of Dancing with the Stars.

Maurice & Cheryl danced a Samba to the song That’s the way I like it—K.C. & the Sunshine Band

Cody & Julianne danced a Tango to the song Bohemian Like You—The Dandy Warhols

Toni & Alec danced a Samba to the song Amor a la mexicana—Thalia

- Original Music Video
Cloris & Corky danced a Tango to the song “The Big Date” from Addams Family Values—Mark Shaiman

Rocco & Karina danced a Samba to the song I Go To Rio—Peter Allen

Susan & Tony danced a Tangoto the song “La Bohemia”—Electric Dub Tango

Brooke & Derek danced a Samba to the song Hip Hip Chin Chin—Club des Belugas

Lance & Lacey danced a Tango to the song Disturbia—Rihanna

- Original Music Video
Warren & Kym danced a Samba to the song Bounce With Me—Kreesha Turner

It was a sad day for true Dancing with the Stars fans, because Misty May is injured and no longer on the show. Still a ton of great competitors and we have no clue who is really going to win this year. However, I would have liked to see Misty May finish developing herself on the show. I felt like she never broke out in her dancing.

Ok, Misty May aside, here’s the list of all the Dancing with the Stars music from tonight’s episode of DWTS.

Susan & Tony danced a Jive to the song Why Do Fools Fall in Love sung by Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers

Lance & Lacey danced a Viennese Waltz to the song Let Me Leave sung by Marc Broussard

Maurice & Cheryl danced a Jive to the song Rock Around the Clock sung by Bill Haley & His Comets

Rocco & Karina danced a Viennese Waltz to the song What’s New Pussycat? sung by Tom Jones

Warren & Kym danced a Viennese Waltz to the song Lovin’ U sung by Alicia Keys

Cody & Julianne danced a Jive to the song Call Me The Breeze sung by Lynyrd Skynyrd

Toni & Alec danced a Viennese Waltz to the song Für Elise sung by Ludwig van Beethoven

Cloris & Corky danced a Jive to the song The Girl Can’t Help It sung by Little Richard

Brooke & Derek danced a Viennese Waltz to the song Daughters sung by John Mayer

- Original Music Video
Check out all the previous songs from Dancing with the Stars.

Check out Jessica Simpson on Dancing with the Stars. She’s gone country…ok enough of that. The Judges Choice was by far the most memorable dance from last night. I think the black pleather and Kym’s ability to lean back like the Matrix makes the Matrix dance the best.

Tonight was an awesome night on Dancing with the Stars. I think it was the fact that it was Rhumba and Paso Doble night on Dancing with the Stars. Very sexy and very beautiful. I’ve already posted the Dancing with the Stars music for your reference.

**Click on the arrows on the sides to skip to the next dance

Which dancers or routines are your favorite?

Check out the Dancing with the Stars music from tonight’s episode that contains some great Rumba music and Paso Doble music. Check out all the previous dancing with the stars music here.

Toni & Alec danced the Rumba to the DWTS song I Can’t Make You Love Me sung by Bonnie Raitt

Brooke & Derek danced the Paso Doble to the DWTS song Palladio, first movement sung by Karl Jenkins

Rocco & Karina danced the Rumba to the DWTS song You’ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine sung by Lou Rawls

Lance & Lacey danced the Paso Doble to the DWTS song I Kissed a Girl sung by Katy Perry

- Original Music Video
Kim & Mark danced the Rumba to the DWTS song You Give Me Something sung by James Morrison

- Original Music Video
Misty & Maksim danced the Paso Doble to the DWTS song Take Me Out sung by Franz Ferdinand

- Original Music Video
Maurice & Cheryl danced the Rumba to the DWTS song Mercy, Mercy Me sung by Marvin Gaye

Cloris & Corky danced the Paso Doble to the DWTS song Bolero sung by Ravel

Susan & Tony danced the Rumba to the DWTS song Waiting on the World to Change sung by John Mayer

- Original Music Video
Warren & Kym danced the Paso Doble to the DWTS song Malagueña sung by Ernesto Lecuona

Cody & Julianne danced the Rumba to the DWTS song Bleeding Love sung by Leona Lewis

- Original Music Video

Don’t be so naive!! Derek Hough and Karina Smirnoff are not dating. Derek Hough is still dating Shannon Elizabeth and last I heard are quite happy together. Of course, that doesn’t stop the insane paparazzi from asking Derek and Karina if they’re dating now. Check out this video of Derek and Karina getting bombarded with questions by the paparazzi outside a club.

When Derek throws Karina at the end, that’s awesome. Great publicity stunt by ABC, Karina and Derek. Even in the few seconds of dancing they do in this video, you can see why Derek and Karina are professional dancers.

Best Couples - Translation: They have a chance of winning (along with possible some of the surprise couples below)
Misty and Maks - Misty looked ok. Her broad shoulders did make the line look different, but I can’t fault her too much for that. Maks is funny. My biggest surprise is that Misty isn’t more out there on the show. Her partner often describes her as a ham, but we haven’t really seen much of that on the show. Luckily Misty is tremendously popular.
Cody and Julianne - This couple should be called Dancing with the Stars since Julianne could be more of a star than Cody. Either way, this is a powerful duo with a nice fan following. Plus, Julianne really makes almost any dancer look better.
Lance and Lacey - Lacey is popular from So You Think You Can Dance and boy band fans seem to turn out well in the voting. Oh yeah, plus their dancing is pretty nice too. Only question is whether Lacey’s choreography will get them in trouble with the judges and cause them to lose prematurely.

Surprise Couples - Translation: I’m amazed they did so well
Warren and Kym - I honestly thought that Kim was screwed being with Warren and I thought he’d be a horrible dancer. I was wrong. I stand corrected. He’s pretty good. Maybe it was those ballet classes I hear football players like to take to make them “light on their feet.” Only problem is that Warren played d-line. I don’t think d-line takes ballet. That’s for running backs like Emmitt Smith.
Derek and Brooke - I’m really surprised that Brooke is as good a dancer as she is. The problem is that she’ll really need those good dancing scores. Only problem is that it will catch up to her at the end where everyone is getting 29s and 30s. I’m not sure Brooke is popular enough to do very well in the voting. Luckily Derek is popular in his own right.

Worst Couples - Translation: Thanks for mostly making fools of yourself for our entertainment
Susan and Tony - Honestly Susan is just hard for me to watch dance. Stiff and nothing to her. She certainly is trying hard, but it’s just not pretty.
Rocca and Karina - I really had hoped that Rocco would be better. His second dance wasn’t bad, but unfortunately he’s not going to las too long.
Cloris and Corky - I’m sad that Cloris’s humor will get her so far on the show. Her dancing makes me want to hit fast forward on the tivo. Her grade as a dancer: F- Her grade as a comedian: A++

Any couples I should have added to one list or the other?