Bailando por un Sueño | |
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Created by | Televisa |
Starring | Gisela Valcarcel |
Country of origin | Peru |
No. of episodes | 7 (second season) |
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Original network | Panamericana Television |
Original release | 2008 – incumbent |
The Peruvian version of Bailando por un Sueño premiered its first season on June 7, 2008, hosted by Gisela Valcárcel, who returned to Peruvian television after spending three years away. The programs, in a format called "galas", transmitted on Saturdays at 10 pm (-5 GMT) for Panamericana Television live from the Monitor Studios, located in the Lima district of San Borja.
Bailando por un Sueño is a reality show where 13 participants called "The Dreamers" star in a dance competition in which the winner will realize a dream that becomes public knowledge, either to resolve a personal problem or to help someone else. The program focuses on social assistance that can be provided to talented people who have no economic means to achieve certain goals and comply with the tool that these dreamers have to overcome adversity is his talent for dancing.
The "dreamers" are not alone in his company, each of which receives the aid or support of a famous person or "hero", which make up a pair of dancers. The "dreamers" are 13 ordinary people who were chosen after passing a rigorous audition, and are a common feature special talent for dance and have dramatic stories of personal need or altruistic goals for their community. On the other hand, or the famous "heroes" are celebrities from the entertainment and sports world, most of whom had no prior preparation for the dance event and were offered voluntarily or were summoned by Gisela Valcárcel to help each "dreamer" to achieve the realization of his dream.
The thirteen couples (dreamer and hero) will compete over 12 weekly galas, which will eliminate those couples who by the score awarded by the jury are sentenced and received the fewest votes from viewers telephone. At the final gala will be competitions by two couples who get the long-awaited fulfilment of his dream, as well as an award from surprise Cerveza Cristal.
The four couples who succeed in reaching the top ranks of the First Season will participate in November 2008 in the "Kings of the Dancefloor" along with the three couples highlights of the second season (which began in late August), plus of that couple to occupy the best 4th place in the first two seasons as the score given by judges. The dreamer of the couple receiving the first of this tournament will win a prize of 100,000 soles, and next to the famous who will be accompanying him to represent Peru at the Second International Dance Championship, which will possibly take place in Argentina in 2009.