Experiencing Dancing with the Stars LIVE & Season Finale Information!! #ABCTVEvent #DWTS

I attended this all expenses paid press event on behalf of Disney. All opinions are completely my own.

After weeks of competition the Mirrorball winner will be decided THIS week!!  A two part season finale will round out this amazing season of Dancing with the Stars and a winner will be named – WHO do you want it to be?

Just a week ago I was lucky enough to join 24 other bloggers at a live taping of the Dancing With the Stars Semi-Finals in Los Angeles.  It was simply out of this world, truly an experience I’ll never forget.  

At the beginning of the night, prior to taping starting, they called everyone down to the dance floor to have a chance to dance.  The floor was quickly filled up and the dancing ensued.  I took this short video to share with my followers and wanted to share it with you here too.

 

That time at #DWTS that the audience goes down onto the stage!!! #ABCTVEvent #GoodDinoEvent @dancingabc

A video posted by Africa’s Blog (@africasblog) on Nov 16, 2015 at 4:35pm PST

    We got to watch Alek Skarlatos and Lindsay Arnold, Bindi Irwin and Derek Hough, Carlos PenaVega and Witney Carson, and Nick Carter and Sharna Burgess compete in two dances each, one style they hadn’t yet performed and a trio dance, and a dance off where Bindi and Nick and Carlos and Alek were partnered to compete head to head.  All over it was an amazing night of dancing  the professional dancers who dance in between to entertain the crowd and those viewing at home is simply mind blowing.

At the end of the night, when it came time to reveal who would be going through to the finals all of the dancers and the audience were excited to hear that no one would be going home due to the unfortunate departure of Tamar Braxton during the week due to health reasons.  All four; Bindi, Alek, Carlos and Nick will be competing in the season finale which airs Monday November 23rd at 8|7c and the winner of the Mirrorball will be named on Tuesday November 24th starting at 9|8c (both are two hour episodes) – on the ABC Television Network.

I, for one, am relieved that no one was sent home, according to the results both Nick Carter and Bindi Irwin were in the bottom two, and both are my favorites, although it is so hard to pick just one favorite.  All of the remaining competitors put on an amazing show, I was literally glued to the dance floor.   I cannot tell you the last time I’ve had this much fun, standing up, clapping, hollering, just reveling in the moment, trying my best to take it all in!!  After the show we were called down to the stage where we got to take this fun photo with Dancing with the Stars judges Carrie Ann Inaba, Bruno Tonioli and Julianne Houge and show host Tom Bergeron.   Tom Bergeron also shared this photo to Instagram – my moment feeling famous;

 

A bevy of beautiful bloggers (say THAT 5 times fast) joined us for last night’s @dancingabc #dwts A photo posted by Tom Bergeron (@tombergeron) on Nov 17, 2015 at 8:30am PST

We also had time to take other photos while on the dance floor and I got this fantastic photo snapped with Taty from coolmomscooltips.com, sharing these experiences with new friends makes the memories that much sweeter. 

I am a selfie addict – and just have to share this one with you all too – a fun photo of myself on the dance floor of Dancing with the Stars;

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REMEMBER – 

Two-Night Dancing with the Stars Season Finale
November 23rd – 8|7c AND November 24th – 9|8c
on ABC Television Network!

More information on the season finale is included below – 

Musical Performers Include Ariana Grande, Meghan Trainor, Nick Carter, Andy Grammer and More

The Season 21 Champion Will Be Declared on Tuesday, November 24

“Episode 2111 & 211A” – After weeks of competitive dancing, the final four couples advance to the FINALS of “Dancing with the Stars” this MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23 (8:00-10:01 p.m., ET). Alek Skarlatos and Lindsay Arnold, Bindi Irwin and Derek Hough, Carlos PenaVega and Witney Carson, and Nick Carter and Sharna Burgess have one last night of competitive dancing, fighting to win the judges’ and America’s votes to be crowned the “Dancing with the Stars” champion on TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24 (9:00-11:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.

On Monday, November 23 (8:00-10:01 p.m., ET), the finalists will compete in two rounds of dance. In the first round, one judge will help each couple choose the creative elements of each dance, which is a re-do to a new song. Carrie Ann Inaba will work alongside Linsday and Alek, as well as Bindi and Derek. Julianne Hough is with Nick and Sharna, and Bruno Tonioli is with Carlos and Witney. In the second round, in one of the biggest competitive dances of the season, the couples take on a freestyle dance featuring special effects, additional dancers and unexpected surprises. There will be special performances from Meghan Trainor, singing “Like I’m Gonna Lose You,” and Who Is Fancy, Ariana Grande and Meghan Trainor performing “Boys Like You.” At the end of the night, the couple with the lowest combined viewer and judge votes from the previous two weeks will be eliminated.

In the two-hour season finale on Tuesday, November 24 (9:00-11:00 p.m., ET), the three finalists advance to the final stage of the competition. There will be live dancing and show-stopping performances at the Grove shopping center and in the DWTS ballroom. The night kicks off with a high-energy opening number, featuring a reunion of all 13 of this season’s couples at the Grove. The finale will be filled with performances from Alexander Jean, Andy Grammer, Chaka Khan, Elle King and Nick Carter. Kim Zolciak returns to the ballroom to dance a Samba with Tony Dovolani to “I Dream of Jeannie,” which she was never able to perform, along with encore dances from the eliminated celebrities. The cast of the upcoming “Dancing with the Stars: Live! Dance All Night Tour” will perform a dance to Avicii’s “Broken Arrows” as a sneak peak of the 90-minute show traveling the country this winter. The three finalists will each dance a repeat dance from this season. In the last element of competition, the couples will perform a new routine as part of a “24-Hour Fusion Challenge.” The remaining couples will fuse two contrasting dance styles that they’ve performed this season and they’ll have less than 24 hours to prepare that dance for judges’ points. At the end of the night, the winner of the coveted Mirrorball trophy will be announced!

Hosted by Emmy® Award-winning host Tom Bergeron and Erin Andrews (sports host & “Dancing with the Stars” Season 10 finalist), “Dancing with the Stars” is the hit series in which celebrities perform choreographed dance routines which are judged by a panel of renowned ballroom experts, including dancer/choreographers Bruno Tonioli, Carrie Ann Inaba and ballroom dancer and Emmy® Award-winning choreographer Julianne Hough.

Viewers may cast their votes for their favorite teams via phone on Monday night during and up to 60 minutes after the end of the “Dancing with the Stars” broadcast in each time zone. Online voting at www.abc.com and on Facebook at https://apps.facebook.com/votedwts/ is open for 15 hours, beginning from the start of the episode Monday, November 23 on the East Coast at 8:00 p.m., ET/5:00 p.m., PT and closing at 11:00 a.m., ET/8:00 a.m., PT the next day.