{"id":193415,"date":"2025-09-16T18:38:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T18:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/16\/dancing-with-the-stars-season-34-will-look-different-this-year\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T18:38:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T18:38:26","slug":"dancing-with-the-stars-season-34-will-look-different-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/16\/dancing-with-the-stars-season-34-will-look-different-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Dancing With the Stars\u2019 Season 34 Will Look Different This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeandstylemag.com\/tags\/dancing-with-the-stars-17639\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Dancing With the Stars<\/em><\/a> Season 34 is shaking things up with new pros, troupe dancers and celebrity contestants hitting the ballroom for the premiere on September 16. Here\u2019s everything fans need to know before the first twirl.<\/p>\n<h2>Change in Pros<\/h2>\n<p>One exciting new pro is <strong>Jan Ravnik<\/strong>, joining the show after performing on <strong>Taylor Swift<\/strong>\u2019s Eras Tour.\u00a0And while some fans were worried <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeandstylemag.com\/tags\/sasha-farber\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Sasha Farber<\/strong><\/a> might be stepping away entirely after not being cast with a celebrity this season\u2014following his brief romance with<strong> Jenn Tran<\/strong> last season\u2014ABC has confirmed that Sasha will still have a major role.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReady for more behind the scenes?\u201d the<em> Dancing With the Stars<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DOpByWpgSJy\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram caption<\/a> read on Sept. 15. \u201cWe\u2019re going LIVE on TikTok with @sashafarber1 TOMORROW to celebrate the #DWTS Premiere!\u201d Sasha himself added, alongside heart-eyed emojis, \u201cCan\u2019t wait to showwwwww you guys around the ballroom and take you backstage !!!!!!!!!\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DOpByWpgSJy\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>Season 34 New Troupe Dancers<\/h2>\n<p>Season 34 also welcomes four new troupe members: <strong>Hailey Bills<\/strong>,<strong> Onye Stevenson<\/strong>,<strong> Carter Williams <\/strong>and <strong>Jaxon Willard<\/strong>. Troupe dancers perform in group numbers and as background dancers but aren\u2019t paired with celebrity contestants.<\/p>\n<p>Bills, niece of two-time DWTS champion <strong>Jenna Johnson<\/strong>, previously competed as a pro on<em> DWTS: Juniors<\/em> in 2018. A two-time national champion at <em>The Dance Awards<\/em>, she has toured with <strong>Derek Hough<\/strong>\u2019s Holiday Tour and recently completed her freshman year at Brigham Young University.<\/p>\n<p>Stevenson, a graduate of USC\u2019s Glorya Kaufman School of Dance, trained in contemporary, jazz, modern, hip-hop, tap, ballet and Latin ballroom. She\u2019s worked with choreographers including<strong> Kyle Abraham<\/strong> and <strong>Ji\u0159\u00ed Kyli\u00e1n<\/strong> and has also toured with Hough.<\/p>\n<p>Williams, also from Utah, was a top-six finalist on<em> So You Think You Can Dance<\/em> Season 17 and has appeared on <em>World of Dance<\/em> and<em> America\u2019s Got Talent.<\/em> A four-time World Latin Finalist and two-time National Latin Champion, he\u2019s also a member of the Weber State University dance team.<\/p>\n<p>Willard debuted on NBC\u2019s <em>World of Dance<\/em> in 2018, finishing third in the Junior Divisional Final. He\u2019s performed with <strong>Madonna<\/strong>, <strong>Rihanna<\/strong>, <strong>Lady Gaga<\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>FKA Twigs<\/strong> and appeared in Disney\u2019s <em>High School Musical: The Musical: The Series<\/em>. In 2023, he performed in Rihanna\u2019s Super Bowl Halftime Show and Savage X Fenty show.<\/p>\n<h2>Season 34 Celebrity Cast<\/h2>\n<p>Season 34\u2019s celebrity contestants include:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hilaria Baldwin<\/strong> with pro <strong>Gleb Savchenko<\/strong><br \/><strong>Corey Feldman<\/strong> with <strong>Jenna Johnson<\/strong><br \/><strong>Jordan Chiles<\/strong> with <strong>Ezra Sosa<\/strong><br \/><strong>Danielle Fishel<\/strong> with <strong>Pasha Pashkov<\/strong><br \/><strong>Alix Earle<\/strong> with <strong>Val Chmerkovskiy<\/strong><br \/><strong>Robert Irwin<\/strong> with <strong>Witney Carson<\/strong><br \/><strong>Andy Richter<\/strong> with<strong> Emma Slater<\/strong><br \/><strong>Baron Davis<\/strong> with<strong> Britt Stewart<\/strong><br \/><strong>Dylan Efron<\/strong> with <strong>Daniella Karagach<\/strong><br \/><strong>Elaine Hendrix<\/strong> with <strong>Alan Bersten<\/strong><br \/><strong>Jen Affleck<\/strong>with<strong> Jan Ravnik<\/strong><br \/><strong>Lauren Jauregui<\/strong> with <strong>Brandon Armstrong<\/strong><br \/><strong>Scott Hoying<\/strong> with <strong>Rylee Arnold<\/strong><br \/><strong>Whitney Leavitt<\/strong> with <strong>Mark Ballas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Dancing With the Stars<\/em> Season 34 premieres Tuesday, September 16 at 8 p.m. ET\/PT on ABC and Disney+.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeandstylemag.com\/posts\/dancing-with-the-stars-season-34-will-look-different-this-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dancing With the Stars Season 34 is shaking things up with new pros, troupe dancers and celebrity contestants hitting the ballroom for the premiere on September 16. Here\u2019s everything fans need to know before the first twirl. Change in Pros One exciting new pro is Jan Ravnik, joining the show after performing on Taylor Swift\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":193416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-193415","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}