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DWTS Disney Night: Team Dances Return!
30 Oct
Summary
- Team dances return for Disney Night after a season's absence.
- Judges' scores for teams are applied equally to all members.
- Viewers' votes are counted for individual couples, not teams.
Dancing With the Stars is reviving its popular team dances for an upcoming Disney Night episode, marking their return after a hiatus last season. This change injects fresh excitement as the competition intensifies for the remaining eight couples.
The returning team dances will feature a new scoring dynamic. Judges will evaluate each team's performance as a collective unit, and every couple within that team will receive an identical score. This group score will then be combined with each couple's score from their individual routine, contributing to their total for the night.
However, audience engagement will differ for team performances. While live viewer votes are crucial for determining individual couples' safety from elimination, these votes will not apply to the team dance results. Pro dancers within each team are responsible for choreographing their respective group numbers. Tatyana Ali and Connor Wood will serve as team captains, selected by producers, and will draft their teams through a coin flip and turn-based selection process.
Team Slaytopia, featuring Alfonso Ribeiro, Tatyana and Jan, Maura and Mark, Amber and Pasha, and Julia and Ezra, will perform to Shakira's 'Zoo.' Team Wildcats, including Julianne Hough, Connor and Rylee, Ezra and Dani, Jenna and Val, and Harry and Jenna, will dance to the High School Musical anthem 'We're All In This Together.' Broadway star Cynthia Erivo is set to join the judging panel as a guest judge for this pivotal episode.
