How The Season 25 ‘DWTS’ Teams Are Preparing For Week 5
Disney is taking over the Ballroom on “Dancing With The Stars,” and the remaining Season 25 pairs are working hard to make sure that the highly anticipated Disney night isn’t the last one they’ll dance for during the competition.
The 10 teams have all been hard at work preparing for the big night of competition, which is one that is usually incredibly creative, as the teams focus on not only perfecting a new dance they haven’t learned before, but also bringing to life some of the biggest and most beloved Disney characters with routines that ring true to their history, but also bring something new to the floor.
However, all of the hard work won’t pay off for one team, who will find themselves eliminated at the end of the night no matter how good their routine is. Unfortunately, one of these remaining pairs will be the fourth ones to take off their dancing shoes before the night ends after both their judge’s scores and viewer votes from the “Most Memorable Year” week of competition are added together.
Of course, before potentially needing to say goodbye to a fan favorite team, viewers will get to be wowed by the routines. Here’s how the teams spent the weekend rehearsing:
Team Fish Upon A Star
Now that they’ve come just one point shy of the first perfect score of the season, Jordan Fisher and Lindsay Arnold will likely be looking to get that one last point with their Foxtrot to a song from the movie “Moana.” While Jordan seemed to keep the dance off of social media, Lindsay had fun sharing a series of photos on her Instagram page which featured the two in the studio, holding several fake flowers and a “Moana” blanket. She jokingly captioned in her post that she bet fans “couldn’t guess” what movie they were dancing to.
Team ViVa
After careening up the leaderboard and landing in second place during “Most Memorable Year” night, Victoria Arlen seems to be celebrating her success with Val Chmerkovskiy and having a lot of fun rehearsing their routine.
In one post, she shared a photo of them in the studio, donning Mickey ears and life preservers.
The fun continued in a second post she shared while camera blocking, and once again she seemed to be having a lot of fun with the Disney theme overall, donning her ears and a polka dotted skirt as she rehearsed her Jazz number.
Team Franney Pack
While Witney Carson’s post of she and Frankie Muniz rehearsing their Argentine Tango didn’t give anything away about their routine, it did call her partner out for his dedication to the dance, even when he messed up.
Team Hot Property
Drew Scott and Emma Slater didn’t share too much about their routine this week, but Drew did take the time to share that they are dancing a Viennese Waltz to “Rainbow Connection” from “The Muppets.”
Team A Team
Anyone who was wondering which Disney movie Sasha Pieterse and Gleb Savchenko were honoring with their routine definitely won’t have questions anymore after the posts each shared on Instagram. In a series of photos, Sasha teased meeting a “Mer-Man,” and her photos hilariously showed Gleb posing with a blue mermaid tail attached to his body.
Gleb’s own post, showing them in the studio, where he discussed “being a mermaid” also seemed to heavily hint at the pair’s movie.
Team Getcha Popcorn
Terrell Owens and Cheryl Burke will seemingly be getting a visit from Simba when they dance their Quickstep to “I Just Can’t Wait to be King,” from “The Lion King.” The couple made sure to include some fun accessories devoted to the young king in a glimpse at their routine which Cheryl posted.
Team Smackdown
Nikki Bella and Artem Chigvintsev will have a chance to give fans a glimpse at the newest Disney movie, “Coco,” with their routine. Nikki praised the routine on Instagram, admitting she was excited to dance in honor of the movie, which is set to be released on Thanksgiving.
Artem meanwhile, decided to embrace the Mexican heritage explored in the film in his own post, sharing a glimpse of himself in a full Mariachi ensemble and captioning it with “Mira que chulada de mujer,” which roughly translates to “Look how cute.”
Team Mom And Pops
The stress of being at the bottom of the leaderboard and on the brink of elimination may have found its way into Nick Lachey and Peta Murgatroyd’s relationship, if a post from Nick is indicating anything. In a photo, he appears to be sticking out his lip as Peta sternly scolds him. Although he joked in the clip that it was because he did something wrong during their camera blocking, it likely plays into a fun moment during their routine, which is set to “The Bare Necessities,” from “The Jungle Book.”
Both Team STARK and Team Babies and Ballroom opted to keep a glimpse of their practices off of social media this week, meaning fans will just need to tune in and see what Lindsey Stirling and Mark Ballas and Vanessa Lachey and Maks Chmerkovskiy have cooked up for their own Disney magic.
“Dancing With the Stars” airs Mondays at 8 p.m. EDT on ABC.
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