Dance Plus

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Dance Plus
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Also known asDance +
Directed byAshim Sen
Presented by
  • Raghav Juyal (host for season 1-6)
  • Sugandha Mishra (co-host in season 4 & guest for 5-6)
  • Sushant Khatri (co-host in season 7)
  • Tushar Shetty (co-host in season 7)
Judges Remo D'Souza
Country of originIndia
Original languageHindi
No. of seasons7
No. of episodes146
Production
Producers
  • Hemant Ruprell
  • Ranjeet Thakur
  • Adelaide Joshua-Hill
EditorKumar Priyadarshi
Running time60 minutes (season 1-2)

90 minutes (season 3-4)

120 minutes (season 5-7)
Production companies
Original release
Network
Release26 July 2015 (2015-07-26) 
present

Dance Plus (tagline: Ise Kehte Hain Dance) is an Indian Hindi-language reality dance competition television series produced by Frames Production house and Urban Brew Studios. The 6 consecutive seasons hosted by Raghav Juyal. From season 7 Tushar Shetty & Sushant Khatri co-host. The series features dance performers, including solo acts, Duo and larger groups, representing any style of dance, competing for a grand prize.

Contents

Series overview

SeasonEpisodesFinalistsWinner TeamHostSuper JudgeCaptainsOriginal BroadcastNetwork
WinnerRunner-upPremiereFinale
1 12 V Company Question Mark Crew Dharmesh Yelande Raghav Juyal Remo D'Souza Dharmesh Yelande Shakti Mohan Sumeet NagdevNo 4th captain26 July 201511 October 2015 Star Plus & Disney Plus Hotstar
2 26Tanay MalharaWild Ripperz Dharmesh Yelande Punit Pathak 2 July 201625 September 2016
3 26Bir Radha SherpaAmardeep Singh Natt Punit Pathak 1 July 201724 September 2017
4 34Chetan SalunkeSujan and Aanchal Punit Pathak Sugandha Mishra 6 October 20182 February 2019
5 31Rupesh BaneJanam Crew Dharmesh Yelande Karishma ChavanSuresh Mukund9 November 201922 February 2020
6 25Harsh, Sneha & TejasDhananjay Joshi Shakti Mohan Salman Yusuff Khan Shakti Mohan No 4th captain13 September 202115 October 2021
7 49Ritesh PalRakesh Sahu Shakti Mohan Tushar Shetty Sushant Khatri Rahul Shetty 11 December 202329 February 2024

Judges and captains

Judge
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Remo D'Souza Super Judge
Dharmesh Yelande Captain
Karishma ChavanCaptain
Punit Pathak Captain
Rahul Shetty Captain
Salman Yusuff Khan Captain
Shakti Mohan CaptainCaptain
Sumeet NagdevCaptain
Suresh Mukund Captain
Seasons captains.343

Season 1

Season 1 of Dance Plus premiered on 26 July 2015. V Company from Team Dharmesh won Season 1, Question Mark Crew from Team Sumeet was first runner up and Hardik Rawat from Team Dharmesh was second runner up. [1] [2] Kumar Priyadarshi is one of the editor of this season of Dance Plus.

Teams

Team DharmeshTeam ShaktiTeam Sumeet
Hardik Rawat - SoloPopin Ticko - SoloDharmendra - akela
Ravi & Bhargav - DuoRahul Barman - SoloNadeem - Solo
Shafad and Arafat - DuoPiyush & Preeti - DuoChandni & Gaurav - Duo
Bindaas Faizi, replaced by Piyush - Solo13.13 Crew - GroupBase Crew - Group
V Company - GroupBanjara Girls - GroupQuestion Mark Crew - Group

Season 2

Season 2 of Dance Plus started on 2 July 2016. The auditions took place across several cities of India from 3 May 2016 to 26 May 2016.Tanay Malhara from Team Dharmesh won the second season. [3] [4]

There are three mentors:

Teams
Team DharmeshTeam ShaktiTeam Punit
Yo Highness Piyush Bhagat Shazia Samji
Tanay Malhara Sushant Khatri (Nepal) Urban Singh Crew
Wild Ripperz Crew (Nepali Crew) B.A.N.D.I.T.S. Crew F.A.M.O.U.S Crew
Mokshada Jail Khaani replaced by Bindaas FaiziX1X Crew Mingma Lepcha

Season 3

Season 3 of Dance Plus started on 1 July 2017. Bir Radha Sherpa of Team Punit won the third season. [5] [6]

Judges:

Teams

Team DharmeshTeam ShaktiTeam Punit
Aryan PatraChow En Lai Phukan Bir Radha Sherpa
Tarun & ShivaniSri Rama Nataka NikethanAyush & Mukesh
Amardeep Singh NattNostalgia CrewA.V.P. Crew
Tuttix CrewJeet DasHouse of Suraj

Season 4

Season 4 of Dance Plus was started from 6 October 2018 Saturday at 8 pm. The channel Star Plus released the first promo of the show. It was hosted by Raghav Juyal and Sugandha Mishra. Chetan Salunkhe of Team Punit won the fourth season. [7] [8]

The Super Judge was Remo D'souza. The other judges were:

Team Raghav Juyal

An all-kids crew named S-Unity Crew made a special appearance on the show as Team Raghav. They later shifted to Team Dharmesh after getting into the top 10.

Season 5

Season 5 of Dance Plus started airing from 9 November 2019 at 8 pm, hosted by Raghav Juyal and Sugandha mishra (as guest). Rupesh bane from team Dharmesh became the winner of season 5. Janam from team Punit became the runner-up of season 5 [9] [10]

The Super Judge is Remo D'Souza. The other judges are:

Contestant Info
CaptainsTop 18
Dharmesh Rupesh BaneNritya Kala KendraNaitik SinghalDynamic Dance Crew
Punit Janam CrewSubrato and SanchitaBhim BahadurSameep Dhakne
KarishmaDeepika and RupeshCandybotsJahangir AlamB-Fab CrewCreative Dance Crew
Suresh Monark TrivediTron BrothersThe AceSiba PrasadSuraj and Priyanka

Season 6

The sixth season aired on 13 September 2021 on Disney+ Hotstar. The show hosted by Raghav Juyal with the super judge Remo D'Souza and the team captains are Punit Pathak, Shakti Mohan and Salman Yusuff Khan. Harsh, Tejas, Sneha from team Shakti won Season 6 (in all of her 5 seasons of being a captain, this is the first win of team Shakti).

Contestant info
Teams color key
     Winner
     Runner-up
     Third place
     Eliminated in Race to Top 6
     Eliminated in Semi Finale
CaptainsTop 15
Punit Kuldeep and PranshuPratik SurveRomsha SinghShivanshu SoniHot Indians Crew
Shakti Harsh, Tejas, SnehaDhananjay JoshiShweta ShardaPS2J.S Angels
Salman Rohan ParkaleAjay and SaraTom and JerryMD Hasan RajaN House Crew

Season 7

Dance Plus Pro features Shakti Mohan, Punit Pathak returning as captains Rahul Shetty as a new captain. Remo D'Souza returns as the super judge. The show will be newly hosted by Sushant Khatri and Tushar Shetty.

Teams

Contestant info
Teams color key
     Winner
     Runner-up
     Third place
     Eliminated in Race to Top 8
     Eliminated in Semi Finale
CaptainsTop 12
Punit       Rakesh SahuBrother's Bond CrewRitika Sharma (Replaced Sanhvi Jaiswal)The Mystique
Shakti       Ritesh PalAshish & Himanshu      Aman & KunalThe Trend
Rahul Ram, Ramesh & KishanAnshika Dhara (replaced ADA Trio)Akanksha PriyodarshoniAviral & Parv

Dance Styles of Teams

Sr.ArtistsTypeStyleTeam
1Brother's Bond CrewGroup Lyrical Punit
2Rakesh SahuSolo Contemporary
3The MystiqueGroup Waacking
4Ritika SharmaSolo

Hip-Hop

5Ritesh PalSolo Contemporary Shakti
6Ashish & HimanshuDuo Lyrical
7The TrendGroup K-pop
8Aman & KunalDuo Hip-Hop
9Ram, Ramesh & KishanTrio B-Boying Rahul
10Anshika DharaSolo

Popping

11Akanksha PriyodarshoniSolo Freestyle
12Aviral & ParvDuo

Lyrical

Season 8

Dance Plus Pro 2 Upcoming Season

TBA

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