Taniec z gwiazdami

Dancing with the Stars: Taniec z gwiazdami (previously: Taniec z gwiazdami) is a Polish light entertainment reality television series broadcast by Polsat. It is the Polish version of the BBC's popular Dancing with the Stars/Strictly Come Dancing franchise which has been sold to more than 30 countries worldwide.

The 1st season of Taniec z gwiazdami aired in Poland on TVN in the spring of 2005, the 2nd season in the autumn of 2005, the 3rd season in the spring of 2006, the 4th season in the autumn of 2006, the 5th season in the spring of 2007, the 6th season in the autumn of 2007, the 7th season in the spring of 2008, the 8th season in autumn of 2008, the 9th season in the spring of 2009, the 10th edition in the autumn of 2009, the 11th season in the spring of 2010, the 12th season in the autumn of 2010, the 13th season in the autumn of 2011. The series never premiered a season in 2012 and 2013. After two years Dancing with the Stars return in Poland on POLSAT in spring of 2014 as the 14th season, the 15th season in autumn of 2014, the 15th season in spring of 2015, the 17th season in autumn of 2015, the 18th season in spring of 2016 and the 19th season in autumn of 2016, the 20th season will be in spring of 2017.

Every Sunday, ratings average more than 7 million viewers for the first airing. The highest rated episode was the second season finale, where over 8 million people watched.

Since the beginning of the show there have been four different presenters. Magda Mołek, a well-known TV presenter, was the female host during the show's first season. Hubert Urbański who originally hosted with Mołek during the first season, stayed with the show until mid-2007 after the fifth season. He is a well-known television host, especially for his work on Milionerzy, the Polish edition of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. Katarzyna Skrzynecka, a film, stage actress, and singer, was the female host in seasons 2–12. Piotr Gąsowski was introduced in 2007 as the new host to replace Hubert Urbański. He is an entertainer and an actor. In season 13 Katarzyna Skrzynecka was replaced by Natasza Urbańska as the female host. In season 14 both hosts were replaced by Krzysztof Ibisz, well-known television host and Anna Głogowska, dancer, television host and the winner of 13th season. She was the female host in seasons 14–17. In season 18 Anna Głogowska was replaced by Paulina Sykut-Jeżyna as the female host.

The judging panel is composed of Iwona Szymańska-Pavlović, retired professional dancer and currently a dancing judge, Michał Malitowski, professional dancer, Beata Tyszkiewicz, an actress and Andrzej Grabowski, an actor and comedian.

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 public in order to survive potential elimination. Through a telephone poll, viewers vote who should stay and who should go, the results of the poll being combined with the ranking of the panel of judges. For example, with 4 contestants left, the judges' favourite would receive 4 points, 2nd favourite 3, and so on, and similarly with the viewers' rankings, similar to the British version.^[1] Each judge gives the performance a mark out of ten, giving an overall total out of forty.

Cast

Presenters

     Contestant/Dancer

     Presenter

     Back-up host

Judges

Professional dancers

Color key:

Series overview

† Youngest male winner at age 23; youngest female winners at age 22
‡ Oldest male winner at age 51; oldest female winner at age 37

Dances

Group Dance Chart

     Latin dance

     Ballroom dance

     Other dance

Records

Number of perfect scores

The scores presented below represent the perfect scores which the celebrities gained in their original season. Dances performed with dancers other than the celebrity's original partner are counted in the total perfect scores with their original partner based on who choreographed the dance.

Celebrities

Professionals

• 47: Rafał Maserak
• 34: Stefano Terrazzino
• 34: Jan Kliment
• 15: Tomasz Barański
• 13: Łukasz Czarnecki
• 12: Blanka Winiarska
• 11: Janja Lesar
• 10: Kamila Kajak
• 9: Hanna Żudziewicz
• 8: Cezary Olszewski, Robert Rowiński
• 7: Ewa Szabatin, Andrej Mosejcuk
• 6: Izabela Janachowska, Adam Król, Agnieszka Kaczorowska, Jacek Jeschke
• 4: Aneta Piotrowska, Anna Głogowska, Marcin Hakiel
• 3: Magdalena Soszyńska-Michno
• 2: Przemysław Juszkiewicz
• 1: Katarzyna Krupa, Piotr Kiszka, Krzysztof Hulboj, Valeriya Zhuravlyova

Highest-scoring celebrities

The scores presented below represent the best overall accumulative average scores the celebrity gained each season.

Specials

The All-Time Final

Couples

Scores

Opening: "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love" – Solomon Burke (Group VOLT)

Running order

Dance Chart

Dancing On Tour

In May and June 2006 Seasons 1-3 participants went on a tour around Poland with a specially-prepared dance show. The gig was called Dancing with the Stars – Dancing in your city (Taniec z Gwiazdami – Taniec w twoim Mieście). The pairs featured in the tour were as follows:

• Agnieszka Rylik (female boxer) and Marcin Olszewski,
• Małgorzata Foremniak (actress) and Rafał Maserak,
• Aleksandra Kwaśniewska (daughter of former Polish president Aleksander Kwaśniewski) and Michał Skawińśki,
• Katarzyna Cichopek (actress) and Marcin Hakiel,
• Rafał Mroczek (actor) and Aneta Piotrowska,
• Conrado Moreno (showman) and Magda Soszyńska,
• Piotr Gąsowski (actor) and Anna Głogowska.

'Best Of' episode

On 13 May 2007 TVN aired a special episode of Taniec z Gwiazdami – Najpiękniejsze tańce. This time the audience was choosing the best dance from previous seasons. The jury went dancing too, and was being judged by a special one-night panel of Kuba Wojewódzki (TV personality), Szymon Majewski (comedian and TV host) and Kazimiera Szczuka(literaty critic and historian, feminist, writer, host of the Polish version of The Weakest Link). The pairs performing in this episode were:

• Joanna Jabłczyńska (actress) and Piotr Kiszka (Waltz)
• Joanna Liszowska (actress) and Robert Kochanek (Samba)
• Przemysław Sadowski (actor) and Ewa Szabatin (Jive)
• Aleksandra Kwaśniewska (daughter of the former president of Poland Aleksander Kwaśniewski) and Michał Skawińśki (Tango)
• Krzysztof Tyniec (actor, cabaretman) and Kamila Kajak (Foxtrot)
• Kinga Rusin (TVN presenter) and Stefano Terrazino (Rumba)

Po prostu taniec (Just Dance!)

On 9 December 2007 TVN aired a special episode of Po Prostu taniec - So You Think You Can Dance and Taniec z Gwiazdami. 4 stars with 6th season Taniec z Gwiazdami and 4 dancer with 1st season So You Think You Can Dance have danced.

• Judges:
  • Augustin Egruolla – So You Think You Can Dance
  • Michał Piróg – So You Think You Can Dance
  • Iwona Pavlović – Dancing With The Stars
  • Piotr Galiński – Dancing With The Stars
• Presenters:
  • Kinga Rusin – So You Think You Can Dance
  • Katarzyna Skrzynecka – Dancing With The Stars
  • Piotr Gąsowski – Dancing With The Stars
• Musical Guests:
  • Isis Gee

Audience voting results

Guinness World record

On 31 August 2008 in Kraków was Guinness World Record. Augustin Egurolla (You Can Dance judge) and Iwona Pavlović (DWTS judge) teach people how to dance cha-cha-cha. People who dance: 1635.

Stars from Dancing with the Stars

Dancers from So You Think You Can Dance"

• 1st season: Maciej Florek, Maria Foryś, Ida Nowakowska, Piotr Gałczyk oraz Mariusz Jasuwienas
• 2nd season: Artur Cieciórski, Katarzyna Kubalska, Gieorgij Puchalski, Anna Radomska i Justyna Białowąs
• Musical guests:
  • Matt Pokora – "Catch Me If You Can", "Through the eyes", "Dangerous"
  • Patrycja Markowska – "Świat się pomylił"

Taniec kontra Dance (Dance vs. Dance!)

Rating Figures

References

http://przeambitni.com/2014/05/26/kto-zatanczy-w-kolejnej-edycji-tanca-z-gwiazdami/

External links

• (Polish) Official Site - Taniec z gwiazdami
• (Polish) Taniec z gwiazdami on Polish Wikipedia