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Aired fall 2012 · Returning competitors, raised choreographic floor

All-Stars

Season fifteen brought back former competitors with retained ballroom technique, raising the choreographic baseline from week one. As the show's only All-Stars edition, it produced a different competitive texture than any standard-cast season could.

Filmed
Los Angeles, California
CBS Television City, Los Angeles
Premiered
Sep 24, 2012
ABC · September 2012
Episodes
13
Format
All-Stars · Returning cast · 13 episodes
Former contestants competing again — first All-Stars edition
Host
Tom Bergeron
fifteenth season with Tom Bergeron at the helm
On this page
  1. 01The take
  2. 02The shape of the season
  3. 03Where it sits in the canon
  4. 05Adjacent in the canon
  5. 06Also appears in
01The take

All-Stars.

Returning competitors who remembered their training raised the choreographic floor to a level no standard-cast season had opened with.
02The shape of the season

A rhythm worth tracking.

Season fifteen ran the first All-Stars edition of the format — a returning cast of former competitors who brought retained choreographic technique back into the ballroom. The early episodes reflected that immediately: the usual week-one adjustment period was compressed because the cast had been there before. Thirteen episodes gave the competitive arc full room. The nostalgia energy gave the season a distinct emotional register that standard casts can't replicate.

03Where it sits in the canon

The #09 slot.

Slot #09 of 16 in the Dancing with the Stars Editor's Canon. The seasons on either side show what I ranked it against.

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06Also appears in

Cross-references.

Dancing with the Stars — Editor's CanonEditor's Canon · #09
Dancing with the Stars S15 — All-Stars — tiered.tv