How does dancing with the stars scoring work

Before, viewers had more time to vote for their favorite couples and the judges didn't have as much power as they suddenly do. But now, things have shifted. And the new scoring system on DWTS could be a game changer. The first surprise fans were met with was the fact that viewers were unable to vote for their faves in week one. Instead, the polls opened up at the start of the week two episode.

This could have limited the amount of votes some couples would have potentially received, had fans been able to vote for their favorite performance during night one instead of waiting until the following week.

Dancing with the Stars is a competition series featuring celebrities and professional dance partners competing for the Mirrorball Trophy. Each week, the celebrities perform a different style of ballroom dance hoping for a positive score from the judges.

But contrary to popular belief, the Dancing with the Stars judges see the contestants perform their dances each week before the live show. The Dancing with the Stars judges panel features four ballroom experts. That's to represent the idea of him having the cape in front of him, and doing those three side steps as the bull - this mythical bull that doesn't exist on the dance floor — approaches.

You get flamenco elements in there as well. Very positive, very strong, very dominant, very powerful in its posture and its movements. So unlike Samba, for example, where there are lots of rhythmical body actions to try and work and develop, Paso is one of the dances that if they can stand up straight, look dominant and move in time with the music, they've got a chance with that one. So I think it's a good dance for somebody to get.

From Cuba - it's the onomatopoeia of ballroom dances. The name Cha-cha-cha comes from the sounds the feet make on the floor. So the basic structure that we have is a forward step - like a rock forwards and backwards - and it's three steps to the side and in those three steps, the feet should stay in contact with the floor. The word that everybody used to describe a Cha-cha is cheeky. In Cuba, it's danced by everybody from seven and eight-year-old kids up to women and men in their 70s and 80s.

It's a great dance. We're always talking about straight legs, and without getting too technical about it - if you imagine how you walk, and as you walk forward continuously your knees soften and that allows the body to continue moving forward.

But when they're doing this forward and back action in Cha-cha, if they bend their knees it makes them slow, lethargic, heavy, willowy. If they can straighten their legs, it checks their weight and moves them back more sharply. It doesn't have to be one of our traditional ballroom dances so what they tend to do is pick a quite emotive piece of music.

In terms of how they dance to it - they are not constricted by a particular rhythm or a particular dance style. It's completely up to their own interpretation as to how they want to move to it. Some of them love it and some of them really blossom on the basis of it. Yeah, it's very easy to judge in my opinion and I think this is why everybody at home enjoys judging so much because it's simply an aesthetic.

It's totally about A visually does this please me - I sound like a Roman emperor saying it like that but is it aesthetically pleasing and is it musically connected? Are they connected to the music both structurally and from an emotional perspective?

So when somebody does the wrong footwork it's not that they're breaking a rule as such, they're just not doing what is the best thing to do in order to create the right movement. So in simple terms, we judge all the dances the same, we look at them aesthetically, we judge them visually and then we connect that to the music. The difference between us and everybody else is we've got the words and the understanding and the experience to be able to explain why.

What they have done is they've taken the traditional Foxtrot or the traditional Waltz and made it more — so it allows them to open out positions, to do lifts and to break away from that very structured approach that those dances would have had originally.

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