Dancing with the Stars. Taniec z gwiazdami (previously simply Taniec z gwiazdami [ˈtaɲɛd͡z z ɡvjazˈdami]) is a Polish light entertainment reality television series broadcast by Polsat. It is the Polish version of the British reality TV competition Strictly Come Dancing and is part of the Dancing with the Stars franchise.
The show first aired on TVN in the spring of 2005. Since then, a new season has aired every autumn and spring, except for a break in 2012–2013.
Every Sunday, ratings average more than 7 million viewers for the first airing. The highest-rated episode was the second-season finale when ratings were around 8 million people.
Since the beginning of the show, there have been four different presenters. Magda Mołek was the female host only during the show's first season. Hubert Urbański, hosted initially with Mołek during the first season, and stayed with the show until mid-2007 after the fifth season. Katarzyna Skrzynecka, an actress and singer, was the female co-host in seasons 2–12. Piotr Gąsowski was introduced in 2007 as the new host to replace Urbański. He is an entertainer and an actor. In season 13, Katarzyna Skrzynecka was replaced by Natasza Urbańska as the female co-host. In season 14, both hosts were replaced by television host Krzysztof Ibisz and Anna Głogowska, a dancer, television host, and the winner of the 13th season. She was the female co-host in seasons 14–17. In season 18, Anna Głogowska was replaced by Paulina Sykut-Jeżyna as the female host. In season 25, Izabela Janachowska, a former professional dancer, joined the host team. Izabela Janachowska left the show after the 26th season.
The judging panel is composed of Iwona Pavlović, a retired professional dancer and currently a dancing judge; Rafał Maserak, dancer, choreographer, dance instructor and television personality, Tomasz Wygoda, dancer, actor, choreographer, teacher and Julia Wieniawa, actress and singer.
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Format
The show pairs several celebrities with professional dancers who each week compete against each other to impress a panel of judges and the viewing public to survive potential elimination. Through a telephone poll, viewers vote on who should stay in the competition. The poll results are combined with the ranking of the panel of judges. The couple with the lowest number of points drop out from each episode. Each judge performs a mark out of ten, giving an overall total of forty (thirty in seasons 22-24).
Cast timeline
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Series overview
* Youngest male winner at age 23; youngest female winner at age 22‡ Oldest male winner at age 51; oldest female winner at age 48
Professional dancers
Each season, celebrities are paired with professional dance partners who instruct them in the various dance styles, design their choreography, and perform with them each week in the competition.
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Dances
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Group Dance Chart
Records
Number of perfect scores
The scores below represent the perfect scores the celebrities gained in their original season.
Celebrities
Professionals
64: Rafał Maserak
45: Stefano Terrazzino
33: Jan Kliment
32: Jacek Jeschke
23: Michał Bartkiewicz
22: Hanna Żudziewicz
21: Łukasz Czarnecki
20: Janja Lesar
18: Tomasz Barański
17: Agnieszka Kaczorowska
16: Sara Janicka
13: Blanka Winiarska
12: Michał Danilczuk, Robert Rowiński
10: Kamila Kajak, Kamil Kuroczko
9: Michał Kassin
8: Cezary Olszewski
7: Andrej Mosejcuk, Ewa Szabatin, Julia Suryś
6: Izabela Janachowska, Adam Król
5: Mieszko Masłowski
4: Anna Głogowska, Marcin Hakiel, Aneta Piotrowska, Daria Syta, Magdalena Tarnowska
3: Wojciech Jeschke, Wojciech Kucina, Wiktoria Omyła, Magdalena Soszyńska-Michno, Albert Kosiński
Highest-scoring celebrities
The scores presented below represent the best overall accumulative average scores the celebrity gained each season. Seasons where the scores were out of 30 have been rounded out of 40.
Lowest-scoring celebrities
The scores presented below represent the worst overall accumulative average scores the celebrity gained each season. Seasons where the scores were out of 30 have been rounded out of 40.
Specials
The All-Time Final
Opening: "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love" – Solomon Burke (Group VOLT)
Running order
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:
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 (literary 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 Skawiński (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 participants of 6th season of Taniec z Gwiazdami and four dancers of 1st season of So You Think You Can Dance have danced.
Judges:
Augustin Egurrolla – 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, the Guinness World Record was achieved. Augustin Egurolla (You Can Dance judge) and Iwona Pavlović (DWTS judge) were teaching 1635 people how to dance cha-cha-cha.
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"