“Ballroom Battle” New Segment On Dancing With The Stars 13?
Today at twitter, @DWTSGossip is reporting 12 couples will be dancing on Season 13 of Dancing With The Stars. She also mentions the “new segment” for which several of the pros have been tweeting on and we’ve been reporting on in the past. Apparently, the new segment will be called “Ballroom Battle”. More details below from @DWTSGossip.
Season 13 of DWTS will return in a true fall fashion with 12 couples.
As some of you may already know, dwts will have a new segment. It’s called Ballroom Battle. Karina, Tony, Mark, Cheryl, Lacey,and Louis will be forming teams. They will all field one couple and coach/choreograph them. The pros will still compete with their celebs if they are asked back. This is an additional segment.
She doesn’t mention Maks, but, I think he’ll be involved too since he and Tony are running the same studio.
Anyway, this sounds fun and different. I can’t wait to see what it’s about. I also tend to think the pros above listed will be asked to come back to compete with a celebrity, do you? If true, add Derek Hough to the list, and that makes 8 competing dancers. This leaves 4 vacant spots. I pray Damian Whitewood and Peta Murgatroyd will be asked.
Heidi’s Note: I’m not sure I agree. While it will be a cool segment – think of the additional burden it puts on the pros DURING the season. So they would have a partner they will have to work with every day AND an amature couple for this other competition?? Sounds like someone is asking to get injured. Please leave Derek off this list. 🙂 I think that because of the work load burden, it is absolutely NOT a guarantee that those pros will also field partners. Who is left besides those 5? Derek, Maks, Chelsey, Anna, Kym, Dmitry, Damian, and Corky? Add Jonathan? Also adding Peta gets you up to ten. Are they going to promote some of the Troupe? Wasn’t the whole point of the Troupe to relieve some of the pro dance burdens on the competing pros?? Doesn’t this exercise add that burden back in and even increase it?? That said, I can certainly see why pros who own studios would want to do it – it will be great PR. The kind of PR you can’t buy, actually.
Field one couple…?
Field a celebrity couple, or make couples between the six of them?
The whole scenario of “Ballroom Battles” confuses me.
I am easily confused though, so please feel free to explain it more thoroughly 🙂
LOL It kind of all confuses me too Cameron. We don’t have much info to go on at this point except that the pros studios have sent out requests for young dancers. I imagine more info will be revealed as time inches closer to the new Season…we hope.
Man, I hope that’s something like that show that Bruno and CA hosted… group of dancers competing against each other…
Guess this is gonna be aired on Results…
Guys, If this is a segment of DwtS I don’t think the pros will have time to do the normal show and this new segment, so, I think they are going to do just one of them.
I really hope they don’t do both. So we can see pros we like and didn’t come back anymore like Jonathan… I’d like to see back again: Fabian, Anna D., Ashley, Damian… they can join the group of Maksim, Kym, Derek, Chelsie, Anna T., Dmitry, and 2 new pros (Peta and another one male from the troupe) – It would be fantastic for me…
We can still watch Karina, Tony, Mark, Cheryl, Lacey and Louis teaching and doing good choreos and the others pros on the traditional competitions with the stars. To me, this is ok.
I wouldn’t mind this as a spinoff, because I love ballroom and watching actual ballroom dancers dance ballroom. I think that DWTS already has a lot going on as it is.
@Carlos…are you talking about Dance Wars? I seriously hope this Ballroom Battle is different than that…I thought that show was pretty bad. And thrown together at the last minute, if memory serves, in order to fill time during the writers’ strike in 2008. I think there’s a reason we haven’t seen a 2nd season of that show 😉
Somehow I don’t think this ballroom battle & doing the show with the celebrity partner are going to be mutually exclusive – meaning that some may do the battle and not do the show, some may do the show and not the battle, and some may do both. That’s a LOT of pros to sit out from regular competition, and for what? A short segment on the results show? Not exactly a good use of pros to pull ratings. I think we can expect some overlap in pros between the regular competition & the battle.
@Heidi – I don’t know if I dreamed this or not, but I’m pretty sure Jonathan tweeted a few months back that he would not be returning to DWTS, as he had gotten too busy with his students and other opportunities. I remember being sad upon reading it 🙁
Yeah, I think there will be overlap, but I don’t think that doing the battle means you are doing the show with a celeb. I DO NOT WANT DEREK TO DO THIS. 🙂 Hear me Hough? 🙂 I don’t want him to get hurt from being worn out plus I like this too much: http://www.purederekhough.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Derek-Hough-Miami-071611-2.jpg Let’s try to avoid massive weight loss this season, m’kay?? 🙂
Yeah, Court, you’re right – I remember that now that you mention it.
Heidi, Derek will have to remember to eat in order to not lose weight. That doesn’t always happen when he’s competing on DWTS, because he gives his all to his fans…. And the show.
As for this battle thing? I don’t know…. Right off the bat, I’m going to say “I hate it,” because they keep throwing CHANGE at us, and I don’t want the show to change!
And, the Pros are busy enough during the season….. Actually, if they want to encorporate the troupe into our pros, this would be a GREAT way for us to get to know THEM, and their personalities, and see how they are teaching and coaching…. Making it a stepping stone to a full time spot. Relieving some of the tired and too well tenured pros…..
He was doing that meal delivery service last season (Freshology??) , Lori – plus he now has a trainer that tweets abuse at him if he screws up. 🙂 As long as he doesn’t go crazy, he should maintain. I hope.
This sounds interesting and exciting. one question though. Why wasn’t Anna or Johnathan involved? they have a studio too.
GOOD question Jeniffer. I know their schedule is tight this summer with a lot of appearances (for instance, I’m dying to see them in August in Vail, Co). Maybe that’s why?
I don’t buy that they’re busy. The others are super busy too. Tony was in Vegas last night hosting ESPN-radio for an hour and he’s holding auditions today. Karina just came back from Hong Kong with Loius.
I’m bracing myself for the inevitable comments on this new segment. As many people will likely hate it as love it! And when a favourite pro neither wins the amateur segment, nor the MBT – there’ll be TWICE the outrage ;).
On the other hand, it will be nice to see an amateur us ordinary folks can more relate to – evolve into a fantastic dancer on the show.
Whatever … I’m just excited that Season 13 is inching ever closer …
I read somewhere that Jonathan would not be back as a pro because DWTS no longer allowed married couples to both compete on the show. It was a result of the disagreement when Edyta left the show because she was upset that Alec was not being asked to be on the show.
I have a feeling that this will be the pros’ only responsiblity. I also think they have created a segment like this one in hopes of receivng more Emmy nominations/wins like SYTYCD!
There will probably be no restrictions and if the contestants they are mentoring are amatuer competitors, It allows the pros to actually be more creative & showcase their true abilities as choreographers.
If this is the case, I would have loved to have seen Derek selected as one of the pros for his segment! Then again, I would miss seeing him dance-LOL. I think it will be Interesting!
IMO, it’s a shame no DWTS pro has won an Emmy! Derek should have definitely received one for one of his nominations last year or for the AMAZING routine he did with his sister. Oh well, who knows what they are looking for because the pros on DWTS are the best IMO! Love their choreographing & dancing more, even if it is with a a non-professional dancer!