“Dancing With the Stars” is again with its milestone twentieth yr. Season 34 kicked off on Tuesday night time with returning hosts Alfonso Ribeiro and Julianne Hough, and judges Bruno Tonioli and Derek Hough. Carrie Ann Inaba introduced earlier within the day that she would be unable to attend because of sickness.
The premiere kicked off with a gap dance, “Kill the Lights” by Whitney Myer, choreographed by Ray Leeper. The all-new troupe additionally took the stage for a dance to Tate McRae’s “Simply Maintain Watching.” The brand new troupe consists of Carter Williams, Onye Stevenson, Jaxon Willard and Hailey Payments — Jenna Johnson’s cousin.
80 minutes into the episode, Ribeiro introduced Monday’s episode surpassed the variety of voters from the Season 33 premiere. By the top, he shared that the quantity of votes doubled final yr’s premiere.
The ultimate dance of the night time was Robert Irwin and Witney Carson, a routine that Hough mentioned was the most effective week one dance he’s ever seen. (As a reminder, Hough took residence the mirror ball trophy with Irwin’s sister, Bindi.)
Irwin landed on the high of the leaderboard, tying with Whitney Leavitt with a rating of 15. In an odd flip of occasions, each Hough and Tonioli held up 7s for Leavitt, but it surely was later revealed that Tonioli truly locked in an 8, which gave her a 15, as an alternative of a 14.
Whereas there was no elimination throughout the premiere, the votes from the primary two weeks will probably be mixed with each weeks of judges’ scores to find out which two {couples} go residence subsequent week in a double elimination.
Scroll down for all of the dances and the judges’ scores from week one:
