Celebrity Ballroom Dance Siblings Derek and Julianne Hough Are Launching a New Kind of Dance Competition, and Deepening Their Professional Partnership
Derek and Julianne Hough are ballroom dancers—but they’ve had the kind of wide-ranging commercial careers that, only a couple of decades ago, would have been hard for most ballroom dancers to imagine. Today, the two might be the most recognizable dancers in popular culture. But their next project shifts the spotlight away from their own dancing and shines it on students instead: This fall, in partnership with the company DanceOne, they’re launching a dance tour called Ovation by DanceOne, which merges ballroom and commercial competition traditions into one event.
