Fans of “Let’s Dance” are slowly getting tingly feet.
And they don’t have to wait much longer either. The 16th season of “Let’s Dance” starts on February 17, 2023.
Exciting: At the end of the evening the first couple has to go again!
Who is taking part in this lavish and glamorous dance competition, how is it scored and when is there something to see? Here you can find out everything you need to know about let’s dance“ need to know.
What “Let’s Dance” is about
In this dance show, celebrities compete with professional ballroom dancers in standard, latin and fashion (freestyle) dances.
The format starts with the big introductory show, in which it is determined which celebrity is allowed to dance with which professional. A week later, on February 24th, the competition begins.
The professional dancers have one week to teach their protégés a choreography, which they then present together in the big show. It’s not just the choreography that counts, but also the charisma and technique.
A real eye-catcher is not only the dance, but also the special costumes in which the couples twirl across the stage. For the stats: up until the ninth season alone, over 1850 sets of clothing were designed and completed.
After each dance, each jury member gives a rating between one and ten.
In addition to the jury rating, the audience also determines which couples are still present in the subsequent program of “Let’s Dance”. At the end of the show you can call for your favourites.
This is how “Let’s Dance” is evaluated
- The last place in the jury evaluation gets one point, the penultimate two points and so on.
- It’s the same with the placements of the viewer rating.
- The results of the viewer rating (number of callers or ranking list) are not disclosed.
- The highest-placed player gets as many points as there are still couples in the race in the respective episode. The jury and viewer ratings are also included. The pair with the fewest points is eliminated.
If several couples have the same rating, the couple with the lowest viewer rating is eliminated.
“Let’s Dance” candidates at a glance
Almost all of the celebrities for the 16th season have already been determined. These celebrities will enter the Cologne dance floor in 2023:
- Abdelkarim
- Sharon Battiste
- Julia Beautx
- Philip Boy
- Anna Ermakova
- Ali Güngörmüş
- Chryssanthi Kavazi
- Jens “Knossi” Knossalla
- Michael Kraus
- Timon Krause
- Sally Ozcan
- Alex Mariah Peter
- Natalia Yegorova
- Younes Zarou
“Let’s Dance” professionals at a glance
RTL always decides at very short notice which professional dancers should lead their prominent protégés to top performances in 2023. With a bit of luck, it will be (almost) the same dancers as in 2022:
At that time there were:
- Andrzej Cibis
- Christian Polanc
- Christina Air
- Ekaterina Leonova
- Evgeny Vinokurov
- Isabel Edwardsson
- Catherine Menzinger
- Malika Dzumaev
- Massimo Sinato
- Patricija Ionel
- Renata Lusin
- Vadim Garbuzov
- Valentin Lusin
- Zsolt Sandor Cseke
- Jimmie Surles
The “Let’s Dance” moderators
Victoria Swarovski and Daniel Hartwich will also moderate this season of “Let’s Dance”
Also in 2023 the moderators Daniel Hartwich and Victoria Swarovski will lead through the show.
This is the “Let’s Dance” jury
Again this year in the jury: Jorge González, Motsi Mabuse and Joachim Llambi
Motsi Mabuse, Jorge González and Joachim Llambi pick up the points again.
Where “Let’s Dance” can be seen
“Let’s Dance” 2023 runs every Friday from 8:15 p.m. on RTL and at the same time online in the live stream on RTL +. The shows are also available for retrieval here.
Who makes the music of “Let’s Dance”.
The renowned orchestra Pepe Lienhard Band played the live music for the dances only in the first two seasons. In Season 3, this task was taken over by Lillo Scrimali, known from “DSDS”, among other things, with his orchestra.
► There hasn’t been a live orchestra since Season 4. But what is still the same as it was in the beginning: The cover versions of the dance songs are rearranged to the rhythm of the respective dance. And exactly in such a way that it fits the dance beat.
Where is it sent from?
Season 3 was sent from the studios in Berlin-Adlershof. As in seasons 1 and 2, production has been taking place in Studio 32 of the MMC Studios (Coloneum) in Cologne since Season 4.
Incidentally, the very first broadcast on April 3, 2006 still holds the viewer record with 7.12 million viewers.
