Dancing with the Stars (Brazil)
Encyclopedia
Dança dos Famosos is a Brazil
ian entertainment reality television
show airing on Rede Globo
television network
and filmed live from the Projac studios in Rio de Janeiro
.
The show is based on the United Kingdom
BBC
Television
series Strictly Come Dancing
, however it is an unofficial Spin-off
.
Through telephone voting, viewers vote who they would like to stay, the results of the poll being combined with the ranking of the panel of judges.
The show is broadcast live on Rede Globo
on Sundays evenings, and it is presented by Faustão and Talitha Morete. The judging panel changes every week and it is formed by three artistic judges and two professional judges.
The concept of the show is to pair a celebrity with a professional dancer in an attempt to win a high score from a panel of five judges and then a high number of votes from the audience.
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
ian entertainment reality television
Reality television
Reality television is a genre of television programming that presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors, sometimes in a contest or other situation where a prize is awarded...
show airing on Rede Globo
Rede Globo
Rede Globo , or simply Globo, is a Brazilian television network, launched by media mogul Roberto Marinho on April 26, 1965. It is owned by media conglomerate Organizações Globo, being by far the largest of its holdings...
television network
Television network
A television network is a telecommunications network for distribution of television program content, whereby a central operation provides programming to many television stations or pay TV providers. Until the mid-1980s, television programming in most countries of the world was dominated by a small...
and filmed live from the Projac studios in Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...
.
The show is based on the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
Television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
series Strictly Come Dancing
Strictly Come Dancing
Strictly Come Dancing is a British television show, featuring celebrities with professional dance partners competing in Ballroom and Latin dances. The title of the show suggests a continuation of the long-running series Come Dancing, with an allusion to the film Strictly Ballroom...
, however it is an unofficial Spin-off
Spin-off (media)
In media, a spin-off is a radio program, television program, video game, or any narrative work, derived from one or more already existing works, that focuses, in particular, in more detail on one aspect of that original work...
.
Format
The show pairs a number of celebrities with professional ballroom dancers who each week compete against each other in a competition to impress a panel of judges and the viewing audience in order to survive potential elimination.Through telephone voting, viewers vote who they would like to stay, the results of the poll being combined with the ranking of the panel of judges.
The show is broadcast live on Rede Globo
Rede Globo
Rede Globo , or simply Globo, is a Brazilian television network, launched by media mogul Roberto Marinho on April 26, 1965. It is owned by media conglomerate Organizações Globo, being by far the largest of its holdings...
on Sundays evenings, and it is presented by Faustão and Talitha Morete. The judging panel changes every week and it is formed by three artistic judges and two professional judges.
The concept of the show is to pair a celebrity with a professional dancer in an attempt to win a high score from a panel of five judges and then a high number of votes from the audience.
Dances
The following are the dances performed by couples on Dança dos Famosos.| Dance | Seasons Used |
|---|---|
| Bolero Bolero Bolero is a form of slow-tempo Latin music and its associated dance and song. There are Spanish and Cuban forms which are both significant and which have separate origins.The term is also used for some art music... |
All |
| Samba Samba de Gafieira Samba de Gafieira is a partner dance to the Brazilian samba musical rhythms.Samba de Gafieira must be distinguished from the ballroom Samba, danced in International Latin and American Rhythm ballroom dance styles.... |
All |
| Country Country music Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music... |
Season 3 – Present |
| Disco | Season 3 – Present |
| Flamenco Flamenco Flamenco is a genre of music and dance which has its foundation in Andalusian music and dance and in whose evolution Andalusian Gypsies played an important part.... |
Season 3 |
| Forró Forró Forró is a kind of Northeastern Brazilian dance as well as a word used to denote the different genres of music which accompanies the dance. Both are much in evidence during the annual Festa Junina , a part of Brazilian traditional culture which celebrates some Catholic saints... |
All |
| Foxtrot | Season 3 – Present |
| Gypsy | Season 4 – Present |
| Hip Hop | Season 5 |
| Indian Dance Indian dance Dance in India covers a wide range of dance and dance theatre forms, from the ancient classical or temple dance to folk and modern styles.Three best-known Hindu deities, Shiva, Kali and Krishna, are typically represented dancing. There are hundreds of Indian folk dances such as Bhangra, Bihu,... |
Season 6 |
| Lambada Lambada Lambada is a dance from Pará, Brazil. The dance became internationally popular in the 1980s, especially in Latin America and Caribbean countries... |
Season 3 – Present |
| Maxixe Maxixe Maxixe can refer to:* Maxixe , a Brazilian dance* Maxixe, Mozambique, a city in Mozambique* Maxixe , a deep-blue variety of beryl* Cucumis anguria, a vegetable... |
Season 3 – Present |
| Merengue Merengue (dance) Merengue El camino1ro de Secundaria-In popular culture:* Merengue was mentioned as a song performed between Babs and Charlie in the song by Steely Dan.... |
Season 3 – Present |
| Mambo Mambo (dance) Mambo .In the late 1940s, Perez Prado came up with the dance for the mambo music and became the first person to market his music as "mambo". After Havana, Prado moved his music to Mexico, where his music and the dance was adopted. The original mambo dance was characterized by freedom and... |
Season 2 |
| Paso Doble | All |
| Rock and Roll Rock and Roll (dance) Acrobatic Rock'n'Roll is a very athletic, competitive form of dance that originated from lindy hop. Unlike lindy hop, however, it is a choreographed dance designed for performance. It is danced by both couples and groups, either all-female or 4-8 couples together... |
Season 2 – Present |
| Salsa Salsa (dance) Salsa is a syncretic dance form with origins in Cuba as the meeting point of Spanish and African cultures.Salsa is normally a partner dance, although there are recognized solo forms such as solo dancing "suelta" and "Rueda de Casino" where multiple couples exchange partners in a circle... |
All |
| Tango Tango (ballroom) Ballroom Tango is a ballroom dance that branched away from its original Argentine roots by allowing European, American, Hollywood, and competitive influences into the style and execution of the dance.... |
All |
| Waltz Waltz The waltz is a ballroom and folk dance in time, performed primarily in closed position.- History :There are several references to a sliding or gliding dance,- a waltz, from the 16th century including the representations of the printer H.S. Beheim... |
All |
| Zouk Zouk Zouk is a style of rhythmic music originating from the Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe & Martinique. Zouk means "party" or "festival" in the local Antillean Creole of French, although the word originally referred to, and is still used to refer to, a popular dance, based on the Polish dance, the... |
Season 4 |
Season Chronology
| Season | Contestants | Premiere | Finale | Celebrity Honor Places | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Runner-Up | Third Place | ||||
| 1 (2005) |
6 | Nov 20, 2005 | Dec 18, 2005 | Karina Bacchi Karina Bacchi Karina Bacchi is a Brazilian actress, model and reality television star. Bacchi is of Italian and Black African ancestry.-Soap Operas:-Reality Television:-References:... |
Alexandre Barillari | Daniela Escobar |
| 2 (2006) |
6 | Feb 12, 2006 | Mar 26, 2006 | Juliana Didone Juliana Didone Juliana Didone Nascimento is a Brazilian actress and former model.-Television career:Born in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, she is best known for her role as Letícia Gomes da Silva, the main character of the 2004 season of the telenovela Malhação... |
Kelly Key Kelly Key Kelly de Almeida Afonso , better known as Kelly Key, is a Brazilian singer.- Biography :Of Portuguese descent, Key released her first, self-titled album in 2001 at the age of 17. Her first single was the song "Escondido" in which she sang the suggestive lyics 'We went out to make out and to make... |
Pedro Bismark |
| 3 (2006) |
12 | May 14, 2006 | Aug 06, 2006 | Robson Caetano Robson da Silva Robson Caetano da Silva is the most successful Brazilian sprinter to date. He participated in four consecutive Olympic Summer Games and won the bronze medal over 200 metres in the 1988 Seoul Olympics as well as in the 4×100 m relay in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.Possibly Da Silva's greatest... |
Stepan Nercessian | Babi Xavier Babi Xavier Babi Xavier, born Anna Bárbara Xavier, is a Brazilian television actress, singer and TV hostess.-Television:*Perdidos de Amor – Ivea, actress*Por Amor – Aninha, actress... |
| 4 (2007) |
12 | Mar 11, 2007 | Jun 17, 2007 | Rodrigo Hilbert Rodrigo Hilbert Rodrigo Hilbert Albertoni , is a Brazilian actor and model.- Early life :Although he also used to think about majoring in Agronomy, Hilbert's dream was inheriting his grandfather's smithery, with whom he used to work... |
Elaine Mickely | Carmo Dalla Vecchia |
| 5 (2008) |
10 | Feb 24, 2008 | May 11, 2008 | Christiane Torloni Christiane Torloni Christiane Maria dos Santos Torloni is a Brazilian actress. Her first appearance was on the Brazilian TV network Rede Globo. Among the many characters she has played are Jô Penteado in A Gata Comeu , and Fernanda in Selva de Pedra... |
Rafael Almeida | Samara Felippo |
| 6 (2009) |
10 | Apr 26, 2009 | Jun 28, 2009 | Paola Oliveira Paola Oliveira Caroline Paola Oliveira da Silva is a Brazilian television and film actress. She played the lead role, Sônia, in the telenovela O Profeta, and currently stars in Insensato Coração for TV Globo.-Biography:... |
Leandro Hassum | Jonatas Faro |
| 7 (2010) |
12 | Apr 18, 2010 | July 25, 2010 | Fernanda Souza | Sheron Menezes | André Arteche |
| 8 Dança dos Famosos (season 8) Dança dos Famosos 8, also taglined as Dança dos Famosos 2011 is the eighth season of the Brazilian reality television show Dança dos Famosos which premiered May 15, 2011, with the competitive live shows beginning on the following week on May 22, 2011 and season finale airing September 4, 2011 on... (2011) |
12 | May 15, 2011 | Sep 04, 2011 | Miguel Roncato | Nelson Freitas | Odilon Wagner |