Bước nhảy hoàn vũ

Bước nhảy hoàn vũ
Logo from 2013 onwards
Genre	Reality television
Developed by	VTV
Presented by	Thanh Bạch (2010-2011) Thanh Vân (2010, 2012) Đoan Trang (2011) Nguyên Vũ (2012) Lương Mạnh Hải (2013-) Đông Nhi (2013-)
Starring	see below
Judges	Khánh Thi Chí Anh (2010-2012) Nguyễn Quang Dũng (2010-2011) Lê Hoàng (2010, 2013-) Đức Huy (2011) Trần Tiến (2011) Quốc Bảo (2012) Hồ Hoài Anh (2012) Trần Ly Ly (2013-)
Country of origin	Vietnam
Original language	Vietnamese
No. of seasons	4
No. of episodes	28 (As of 10 June 2012)
Production
Executive producer	Lại Văn Sâm
Camera setup	multi-camera
Running time	90-120 min.
Production company	Cát Tiên Sa Production
Original release
Network	VTV3
Release	April 11, 2010 – present
Related
Dancing Stars Strictly Come Dancing Dancing with the Stars

Bước nhảy hoàn vũ (literally Universal Steps) is a reality show produced by Vietnam Television and Cát Tiên Sa Production. The show originates from the BBC series Strictly Come Dancing and is a part of the international Dancing with the Stars franchise. The first season was set to air from April 11 to June 20, 2010 with 8 pairs of celebrities and professional dancers. The first elimination might take place on April 18. The show returned for its second season on April 17, 2011 and the third season on mid March, 2012.

The current panel of judges consists of Khánh Thi, Lê Hoàng and Trần Ly Ly, leaving Khánh Thi is the only original judge until this season. Lê Hoàng made a comeback after two seasons breaking. Former permanent judges were Chí Anh (from 2010 to 2012), Nguyễn Quang Dũng (2010 and 2011), Trần Tiến and Đức Huy (2011), Quốc Bảo and Hồ Hoài Anh (2012). Trần Ly Ly and Nguyễn Việt Tú were frequently special guest judges. Later, Trần Ly Ly was promoted to permanent judge in 2013 season.

Format

Former logo of Bước nhảy hoàn vũ in 2010

Former logo of Bước nhảy hoàn vũ in 2011-2012

The contestant pairs consist of a celebrity paired with a professional dancer. Past celebrity contestants include frequently supermodels, actors, dramatic actors, singers, and comedians. Each couple performs predetermined dances and competes against the others for judges' points and audience votes which carry equal weight. The couple receiving the lowest combined total of judges' points and audience votes is eliminated each week until only the champion dance pair remains. The celebrity will then be crowned The Dancing King/Queen.

The show is broadcast live every Sunday primetime on VTV3 and get the encore later on local channels and VTV4 - Channel for the oversea and foreigners / VTV6 - Channel for Youth as well. It is presented by Thanh Bạch and Thanh Vân, then from season 2 onwards Đoan Trang took Thanh Vân's place due to her pregnancy. The judging panel initially consisted of Khánh Thi, Chí Anh, Lê Hoàng and Nguyễn Quang Dũng. By the end of the first season/the beginning of second season, Quang Dũng had left the show and Lê Hoàng had confirmed to return but they didn't. Lê Hoàng stated to leave for Cặp đôi hoàn hảo. They all were replaced by Đức Huy and Trần Tiến in season 2. Under pressure from public critics, Trần Tiến with his stunts decided to quit after four-week judging and the producers got Quang Dũng back on the panel from the fifth week. In season 3, Thanh Vân got back her role on the show, meanwhile Thanh Bạch & Đoan Trang both left. Judges Đức Huy and Nguyễn Quang Dũng did not return, they are replaced by Quốc Bảo and a fourth guest judge each week.

The main singers on the show are Tiêu Châu Như Quỳnh, Hồ Trung Dũng, Lê Kim Ngân, Tuyết Mai, and Dương Ánh Linh. Since its beginning Trung Dũng, Như Quỳnh, Khánh Linh have been parts. Joining them later are Kim Ngân and Tuyết Mai. Nguyễn Ngọc Phương Trinh, Xuân Phú, Thảo Xuân, Mr. A and duets Khánh Dung & Nguyên Lộc appeared several times as replacements.

Judging panel

Judge	Seasons
	1	21		32		4	5
Khánh Thi	♦	♦	♦	♦	♦	♦	♦
Trần Ly Ly	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬	♦	♦
Chí Anh	♦	♦	♦	♦	♦	▬	▬
Lê Hoàng	♦	▬	▬	▬	▬	♦	▬
Nguyễn Quang Dũng	♦	▬	♦	▬	▬	▬	▬
Đức Huy	▬	♦	♦	▬	▬	▬	▬
Trần Tiến	▬	♦	▬	▬	▬	▬	▬
Quốc Bảo	▬	▬	▬	♦	▬	▬	▬
Hồ Hoài Anh	▬	▬	▬	▬	♦	▬	▬

  Current
  Former
  Fourth guest judge

^1 Trần Tiến was a permanent judge from Week 1 through 3; Nguyễn Quang Dũng revived his role from Week 4.
^2 Quốc Bảo left the show after six weeks judging; Hồ Hoài Anh was his replacement.

Hosts

Host	Seasons
	1	2	3	4	5
Nguyên Khang	▬	▬	▬	▬	♦
Yến Trang	▬	▬	▬	▬	♦
Thanh Bạch	♦	♦	▬	▬	▬
Thanh Vân	♦	▬	♦	▬	▬
Đoan Trang	▬	♦	▬	▬	▬
Nguyên Vũ	▬	▬	♦	▬	▬
Lương Mạnh Hải	▬	▬	▬	♦	▬
Đông Nhi	▬	▬	▬	♦	▬

  Current
  Former
  Guest host
  Previously a participant

Main series results

Season	Premiere date	Finale date	Winning couple	Runner-up couple	Third place couple	Other contestants (in order of elimination)	Number of couples
1	April 11, 2010	June 20, 2010	Ngô Thanh Vân & Tihomir Gavrilov	Cao Thị Đoan Trang & Evgeni Popov	Siu Black & Ivan Spasov	Vũ Hoàng Điệp, Ngô Tiến Đoàn, Lương Mạnh Hải, Trần Quang Vinh, Hồng Quang Minh (aka Minh Béo)	8
2	April 17, 2011	June 3, 2011	Vũ Thu Minh & Lachezar Todorov	Trần Thị Thủy Tiên & Petyo Stoyanov	Lê Nguyên Vũ & Petya Dimitrova	Hứa Vĩ Văn, Kim Hiền, Trần Huy Khánh, Vũ Thu Phương, Bùi Đại Nghĩa, Lê Thị Thanh Thúy, Phạm Anh Khoa	10
3	March 18, 2012	June 17, 2012	Lê Ngọc Minh Hằng & Atanas Georgiev Malamov	Trương Nam Thành & Elena Hristova Hadzihristova	Nguyễn Thị Anh Thư & Teodor Mitkov Zlatarev	Huỳnh Đông, Vũ Thị Hoàng My, Quách Ngọc Ngoan, Trịnh Minh Quân, Bùi Thị Phương Thanh, Nguyễn Ngọc Thùy Trang (aka Vân Trang), Phan Tuấn Tú	10
4	March 23, 2013	May 25, 2013	Yến Trang & Tihomir Gavrilov	Ngô Kiến Huy & Victoria Gencheva	Lan Phương & Valeri Ivanov	Ngọc Tình, Trương Thế Vinh, Maya, Hòa Hiệp, Bảo Anh, Hồ Vĩnh Khoa, Ngọc Quyên	10
5	January 11, 2014	TBA

Season 1: 2010

Main article: Bước nhảy hoàn vũ (season 1)

April 11 to June 20 2010, in order of elimination:

Celebrity	Professional	Result
Vũ Hoàng Điệp	Nicolay Georgiev Nikolaev	Week 2
Ngô Tiến Đoàn	Paige Alexis Inman	Week 3
Lương Mạnh Hải	Anna Nikolaeva Silova	Week 4
Trần Quang Vinh	Valeriya Nikolaeva Nikolova	Week 5
Hồng Quang Minh (aka Minh Béo)	LiLi Boyanova Velichkova	Week 6
Siu Black	Ivan Kirilov Spasov	Week 7 (Third place)
Cao Thị Đoan Trang	Evgeni Lyubomirov Popov	Runner-up
Ngô Thanh Vân	Tihomir Romanov Gavrilov	Winner

Season 2: 2011

Main article: Bước nhảy hoàn vũ (season 2)

April 17 to June 3 2011, in order of elimination:

Celebrity	Professional	Result
Hứa Vĩ Văn	Anna Nikolaeva Silova	Week 3
Kim Hiền	Daniel Nikolov Denev	Week 4
Trần Huy Khánh	Tsveta Krasimirova Tsocheva	Week 5
Vũ Thu Phương	Tihomir Romanov Gavrilov	Week 6
Bùi Đại Nghĩa	Valeriya Nikolaeva Bozukova	Week 7
Lê Thị Thanh Thúy	Aleksandar Iliev Vachev	Week 8
Phạm Anh Khoa	Iva Ludmilova Grigorova	Week 9
Lê Nguyên Vũ	Petya Bozhidarova Dimitrova	Week 10 (Third place)
Trần Thị Thủy Tiên	Petyo Dimitrov Stoyanov	Runner-up
Vũ Thu Minh	Lachezar Stefanov Todorov	Winner

Season 3: 2012

Main article: Bước nhảy hoàn vũ (season 3)

March 18 to June 17 2012, in order of elimination

Celebrity	Professional	Result
Vũ Thị Hoàng My	Hristo Ivanov Grachki	Week 3
Phan Tuấn Tú	Vesela Kostadinova Nedyalkova	Week 4
Quách Ngọc Ngoan	Vesela Georgieva Dimova	Week 5
Huỳnh Đông	Rusina Boncheva Stefanova	Week 6
Nguyễn Ngọc Thùy Trang (aka Vân Trang)	Vasil Stoyanov Yovchev	Week 7
Trịnh Minh Quân	Nikoleta Ilkova Petrova	Week 8
Bùi Thị Phương Thanh	Ivan Nedyalkov Raykov	Week 9
Nguyễn Thị Anh Thư	Teodor Mitkov Zlatarev	Week 10 (Third place)
Trương Nam Thành	Elena Hristova Hadzihristova	Runner-up
Lê Ngọc Minh Hằng	Atanas Georgiev Malamov	Winner

Season 4: 2013

Main article: Bước nhảy hoàn vũ (season 4)

March 23 to May 25 2013, in order of elimination

Celebrity	Professional	Result
Ngọc Tình	Mihaela Pavlova	Week 3
Trương Thế Vinh	Ina Chokova	Week 4
Maya	Kristian Yordanov	Week 5
Hòa Hiệp	Vesela Midova	Week 6
Bảo Anh	Atanas Malamov	Week 7
Hồ Vĩnh Khoa	Anna Sildova	Week 8
Ngọc Quyên	Daniel Denev	Week 9
Lan Phương	Valeri Ivanov	Week 10 (Third place)
Ngô Kiến Huy	Victoria Gencheva	Runner-up
Yến Trang	Tihomir Gavrilov	Winner

Season 5: 2014

From January 11

Professional dancers and their partners

Professional	Season 1	Season 2	Season 3	Season 4	Season 5
Aleksandar Vachev		Thanh Thúy	CHOREOGRAPHER
Anna Sildova	Lương Mạnh Hải	Hứa Vĩ Văn		Hồ Vĩnh Khoa
Atanas Malamov			Minh Hằng	Bảo Anh	Thanh Vân
Daniel Denev		Kim Hiền		Ngọc Quyên	Thu Thuỷ
Elena Hadzihristova			Trương Nam Thành
Evgeni Popov	Đoan Trang
Hristo Grachki			Vũ Thị Hoàng My
Iva Grigorova		Phạm Anh Khoa
Ivan Raykov			Phương Thanh
Ivan Spasov	Siu Black
Ina Chokova				Trương Thế Vinh
Kristian Yordanov				Maya	Ngân Khánh
Lachezar Todorov		Thu Minh
LiLi Velichkova	Minh Béo
Mihaela Pavlova				Ngọc Tình
Nicolay Nikolaev	Vũ Hoàng Điệp
Nikoleta Petrova			Minh Quân
Paige Inman	Tiến Đoàn
Petya Dimitrova		Nguyên Vũ
Petyo Stoyanov		Thủy Tiên
Rusina Stefanova			Huỳnh Đông
Teodor Zlatarev			Anh Thư
Tihomir Gavrilov	Ngô Thanh Vân	Vũ Thu Phương		Yến Trang
Tsveta Tsocheva		Huy Khánh
Valeri Ivanov				Lan Phương
Valeriya Bozukova		Đại Nghĩa
Valeriya Nikolova	Quang Vinh
Vasil Yovchev			Vân Trang
Vesela Dimova			Quách Ngọc Ngoan	Hòa Hiệp
Vesela Nedyalkova			Tuấn Tú
Victoria Gencheva				Ngô Kiến Huy

Key:

  Male professional

  Female professional

  Winner of the season

  Runner-up of the season

  Third place of the season

  Last place of the season

  Withdrew in the season

Statistics

As of the end of season two Ngô Thanh Vân & Tihomir Gavrilov and Cao Thị Đoan Trang & Evgeni Popov, both from the first season hold the record for most perfect scores with two perfect 40 out of 40.

The lowest that the judges have ever awarded was 26/40 to Vũ Hoàng Điệp & Nicolay Nikolaev for their Waltz.

The most tens record goes to Ngô Thanh Vân & Tihomir Gavrilov and Cao Thị Đoan Trang & Evgeni Popov coincidentally. They tie at 27 tens, meanwhile the second season winning couple Vũ Thu Minh & Lachezar Todorov only gets 15 ones. For the best average score from judges to all contestants, Ngô Thanh Vân & Tihomir Gavrilov currently come first on top of the all-time board being 37.5/40 for their dances, followed by Vũ Thu Minh & Lachezar Todorov (36.7/40), Cao Thị Đoan Trang & Evgeni Popov (36.5/40).

Highest and lowest scoring performances

Dance	Couple	Highest score	Couple	Lowest score
Argentine Tango (season 1 & 4)	Ngọc Quyên & Daniel Denev	38	Hồ Vĩnh Khoa & Anna Sildova	33
Cha Cha Cha	Siu Black & Ivan Spasov	38	Cao Thị Đoan Trang & Evgeni Popov	28.5
Foxtrot	Cao Thị Đoan Trang & Evgeni Popov	40	Lương Mạnh Hải & Anna Sildova	30
Freestyle	Ngô Thanh Vân & Tihomir Gavrilov Trần Thị Thủy Tiên & Petyo Stoyanov Lan Phương & Valeri Ivanov	40	Hứa Vĩ Văn & Anna Sildova	29
Jive	Lê Thị Thanh Thúy & Aleksandar Vachev Phạm Anh Khoa & Iva Grigorova Ngô Kiến Huy & Victoria Gencheva	38	Vũ Thu Phương & Tihomir Gavrilov Bảo Anh & Atanas Malamov Ngọc Tình & Mihaela Pavlova	31
Paso Doble	Trương Nam Thành & Elena Hristova Hadzihristova	40	Bảo Anh & Atanas Malamov	32
Quickstep	Vũ Thu Minh & Lachezar Todorov	38	Ngô Tiến Đoàn & Paige Inman	30
Rumba	Ngô Thanh Vân & Tihomir Gavrilov Vũ Thu Minh & Lachezar Todorov	40	Vũ Hoàng Điệp & Nicolay Nikolaev	28
Samba	Cao Thị Đoan Trang & Evgeni Popov	40	Ngọc Tình & Mihaela Pavlova	29.3
Tango	Ngô Thanh Vân & Tihomir Gavrilov	39	Trần Quang Vinh Phạm Anh Khoa & Iva Grigorova	30
Viennese Waltza (season 1)	Cao Thị Đoan Trang & Evgeni Popov	35	N/A	N/A
Waltz	Cao Thị Đoan Trang & Evgeni Popov	39	Vũ Hoàng Điệp & Nicolay Nikolaev	26

• ^Note a The routines were not applied for scoring. During the season 1 finale, Đoan Trang & Evgeni chose it as their favorite and got scored. So did Ngô Thanh Vân & Tihomir.

Champions' Ranks

Rank	Celebrity	Professional Partner	Season	Average score
1	Ngô Thanh Vân	Tihomir Gavrilov	1	37.50
2	Minh Hằng	Atanas Malamov	3	36.82
3	Thu Minh	Lachezar Todorov	2	36.73
4	Yến Trang	Tihomir Gavrilov	4	35.88

Runner-Ups' Ranks

Rank	Celebrity	Professional Partner	Season	Average score
1	Nam Thành	Elena Hadzihristova	3	36.64
2	Đoan Trang	Evgeni Popov	1	36.46
3	Ngô Kiến Huy	Victoria Gencheva	4	35.28
4	Thủy Tiên	Petyo Stoyanov	2	35.00

Third Place Ranks

Rank	Celebrity	Professional Partner	Season	Average score
1	Lan Phương	Valeri Ivanov	4	35.98
2	Siu Black	Ivan Spasov	1	35.80
3	Lê Nguyên Vũ	Petya Dimitrova	2	35.55
4	Nguyễn Thị Anh Thư	Teodor Zlatarev	3	34.82

Controversies

Unfair scores

In season 2 the case of Anh Khoa and Iva, all four judges gathered for quick break for discussion about giving scores unlike independently as usual.

And to all seasons, judges are harshly criticized for giving generous scores very sentimentally based upon the case that contestants or partners' sickness, family's bad luck, not so serious injury and so on. That discriminates much against participants who have devoted their really faithful performances based upon hardworking rehearsal and upon creativity. Season 1 winner Ngô Thanh Vân showed disagreement that she would quit because of scoring unfairness. Season 2 finallist Trần Thị Thủy Tiên expressed her feeling of wrong critics and bad scores.

Phone voting/Textgate

In June 2011, the show hit the headlines when viewers were able to register telephone votes for a couple that effectively they could not save from the dance off irrespective of how many public votes were cast in their favour. Some voters claimed that they couldn't send messages voting for Anh Khoa & Iva eliminated the same week during textgate open, when received conformatory text "Vui lòng nhắn tin bình chọn sau khi các thí sinh đã tham gia xong phần thi của mình. Xin chân thành cảm ơn" (literally: "Text after all performances done. Thank you for voting"). It is not clear if the "Thank you for voting" messages were incorrectly assigned, as if the replies were incorrectly assigned, votes would have been counted for the correct contestant despite the voters receiving the wrong "thank you" messages. No message responded even 7 hours after texting was affirmed as well.

All involved including the broadcaster, producers and textgate owner informed no errors during week 9 (June 26) in public press. They also revealed the out of phase of the text-gate with live audience which meant people could only text formally from 30 seconds up to a minute in normal mode after the announcement of hosts and clearly voting could be continued during short time when the gate was deemed closed.

Cast members

Many celebrity are claimed the involving in the show like Phan Anh, Trương Ngọc Tình and Vĩnh Thụy of season 2 step by step replacing. Moreover, Vĩnh Thụy reservedly or unreservedly quit regarding on the accusation of smuggling from Australia to Vietnam by air and the lawsuit filed against him.

Timing violation

Every performance should be performed in 1.5 minutes according to standard practices in almost all versions Dancing with the Stars and in international competitions. In June 6, 2011 the length of Thu Minh's performance was deemed the longest and the shortest performance was that of Đại Nghĩa with only 1 minute 40 seconds. Once again in June 26 and in the finale of season 2(July 3), Thu Minh & Lacho had additional performances.

Striptease

Tendency of undressing on stage was up gradually, beginning in the first week and accumulating in the finale. It is more focused on the "tease" in "striptease" than the "strip". These actions are considered over-sexy, seductive and influence the culture in a bad manner.

Winner crowning

With 79 [with judges] and the percentage of votes is 46.02, scores 4 [in total]... the runner-up is Thủy Tiên

– said Đoan Trang

There was much discussion in the communication industry about the real season two winner because there was confusion over the crowning. Initially, Đoan Trang revealed the runner-up, thus the other was the winner. Trang announced 79 scored by the runner-up. Moments that turned Thủy Tiên (who obviously scored 77) to the edge of glory and turned Thu Minh (who truly scored 79 out of possible 80) slightly blue was quickly stopped with the real name "Thủy Tiên", leading everyone got shocked.

Under too much pressure, producers finally agreed to make a press conference in free will to give info about textgate in order to clarify everything. Mistakes of mis-crowning was caused by result paper as interpreted.

Mimicking

On June 5, Thu Minh wowed the judging panel with her exotic dance concept that brought her two 10s for Samba. Later, it was revealed that the choreography and wardrobe she wore looked amazingly similar to those of Max Kozhevnikov and Yulia Zagoruychenko in the World Super Stars Dance Festival in 2006. In sudden press reports earlier in the week, two main judges Khánh Thi and Chí Anh stated "mimicking is actually self mastering, is the creativity of Thu Minh and Lachezar". Producers tried to help Thu Minh, claiming it was not Thu Minh's fault, that the wardrobe was made from our set of designers' ideas and gave no comment about the choreography.

Producers' rigging

Jury carried half weight of the total score, the other half weight by audience's messages... and we don't know who classified these messages... Producers revealed how much, we only knew right that much... Finally, everything is just simply in the script.

– Hoàng Anh, Huy Khánh's ex-housewife said after his elimination

Reportedly by various newspaper, producers rigged the show. Participants were eliminated as audience thought in an elimination order written in the screenplay. Hoàng Anh, who was Huy Khánh's ex-wife, used Facebook note for raising a tension with the producers after he was out of the race. She also reported Khánh had said to their kid to watch his elimination on Bước nhảy hoàn vũ on Sunday night prior to his elimination actually occurred. Producers denied these claims as baseless, stating that there was officially a company collecting and analyzing messages, and the results were not be revealed by producers alone without VTV's permission.

Dance styles for seasons

Style	Seasons
Argentine Tango	1
Broadway	3
Cha-cha-cha	1, 2, 3
Exhibition/Group dance	1, 2
Folk music	1, 2
Foxtrot	1, 2, 3
Freestyle	1, 2, 3
Jive	1, 2, 3
Mambo	3
Music from movies	3
Pasodoble	1, 2, 3
Quickstep	1, 2, 3
Rumba	1, 2, 3
Salsa	3
Samba	1, 2, 3
Tango	1, 2, 3
Viennese Waltz	1, 2, 3
Waltz	1, 2, 3

See also

• Dancing Stars (Bulgarian TV series)
• Strictly Come Dancing
• Dancing with the Stars (U.S. TV series)
• Dancing with the Stars - versions of the show produced in other countries
• Cặp đôi hoàn hảo - the corresponding format in Vietnamese, with singing instead of dancing

External links

• Bước nhảy hoàn vũ's official site