Bailando por un Sueño (Argentine TV series)

Bailando por un Sueño
Genre	Reality
Created by	El Trece
Presented by	Marcelo Tinelli
Judges	Moria Casán Soledad Silveyra Nacha Guevara Marcelo Polino Carmen Barbieri (2006, 08-12) Flavio Mendoza (2011-12) Aníbal Pachano (2010-12) Antonio Gasalla (2012) Graciela Alfano (2007, 10-11) Ricardo Fort (2010) Reina Reech (2006, 10) Gerardo Sofovich (2006-08) Jorge Lafauci (2006-08) Laura Fidalgo (2006) Zulma Faiad (2006)
Country of origin	Argentina
Original language(s)	Spanish
No. of series	9
Production
Location(s)	El Trece Ideas del Sur Studios
Production company(s)	Ideas del Sur Studios
Broadcast
Original channel	El Trece
Picture format	(HDTV)
Original run	17 April 2006 (2006-04-17) – present
Chronology
Related shows	El Musical de tus Sueños Soñando por Bailar
External links
Website
Production website

Bailando por un Sueño (literally "Dancing for a dream") is a segment inside the Argentine television program Showmatch, broadcast on El Trece.

On the contest, a non-celebrity "dreamer" (man or woman) who in addition must be an amateur dancer, is accompanied by a celebrity in dance routines in which they have to demonstrate their skills in various styles such as: Tango, Chacarera, Salsa, Merengue, Flamenco, Rock and roll, Disco, Hip-Hop, Axé, Charleston and most recently Pole dance, Strip dance and Adagio. The couples are awarded points by a panel of judges, who give scores from 1 to 10, and those with the fewer points have to face the public vote to continue in the program.

As of April 2014, the show is in its ninth season and the panel of judges continues to include icons of the Argentine entertainment scene like: Moria Casán, Soledad Silveyra, Nacha Guevara and Marcelo Polino.

Showmatch, hosted by Marcelo Tinelli, also featured another contest of similar characteristics: Singing for a dream or Cantando por un sueño. Since 2011, the segment is an independent TV show.

From the second season onwards, and unlike the international versions, Bailando por un Sueño has taken a controversial turn due to the constant bickering that often escalates to verbal bashing and personal attacks between the celebrities and the judges. This could be behind the high ratings of the show.^[1][2]

Airing of the show

Judging panel

Key:

     Current judging panel

     Previous judge(s)

     Guest judge(s)

• In season 6, Carmen Barbieri left her place in the middle of the competition, and Moria Casán replaced her for all the rest of the season.
• In season 7, Carmen Barbieri quit the show on round 3, so Marcelo Polino took her place.
• In season 8, Antonio Gasalla quit the show, but nobody took his place.

Couples

A total of 176 celebrities have appeared in the seven seasons of Bailando por un Sueño. For each season, the celebrities are paired with a professional partner and a coach who instructs them in the various dances each week and competes alongside them in the televised competition. A total of 125 professional partners have appeared alongside celebrities, some for only one season, and others in multiple seasons. The longest-tenured professional partners are Ana Laura López, Facundo Mazzei, Nicolás Scillama, Christian Ponce, Maximiliano D'Iorio and Gabriel Usandivaras who have each appeared in five seasons.

List of the current professional partners

Statistics

BPUS Champions' Ranks

BPUS Runner Ups' Ranks

BPUS Semifinalists' Ranks

Last-Place Couples Average Ranks

Dance styles for seasons

Notes

1. ↑ Eugenia Ritó, a contestant of Bailando por un sueño, gets angry with the juror (in Spanish)
2. ↑ The rowing on the show (in Spanish)

External links

• (Spanish) El Trece's Showmatch website