# Bailando por un Sueño

Bailando por un Sueño is a franchised TV series in various Latin American countries. Meaning "Dancing for a Dream", it is a reality series that commenced on the Mexican television network Canal de las Estrellas, in which celebrities are partnered with common, everyday people with dreams they want to fulfill, who each week compete against each other in a competition to impress a panel of judges. In each show, the two couples who receive the lowest score go head to head against each other to survive potential elimination. Through a telephone poll, viewers vote who should stay and who should go, the results of the poll being combined with the ranking of the panel of judges. The process continues until only two couples standing. Rather than the promise of a large cash prize, the winner gets a previously stated wish granted. The show is also broadcast in the United States on Univision. This includes a lot of famous actors and actresses from Latin America.
Many Latin American countries developed their own versions in a similar format after the success of the launch. Countries broadcasting similar format shows include Mexico, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Panama, Paraguay, Peru (as El Gran Show), and on the European continent, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Slovakia (as Tanečný pre Dream) and Romania (as Dansez pentru tine).

## Legal controversy

In September 2011, Italy's Canale 5 owned by Mediaset launched a series, hosted by Barbara D'Urso, called Baila, based on Bailando por un Sueño. The owners of Dancing With The Stars, BBC Worldwide, and local RAI presenter Milly Carlucci took Mediaset to court, arguing that Baila infringed on the rights of Dancing With The Stars. The court agreed, finding that the addition of 'dreamers' was not a sufficient difference in the format, and a later court upheld that judgement in November 2011. Baila was quickly taken off the air.

## Bailando por un Sueño worldwide

| Central America (regional) El Salvador / Costa Rica / Honduras / Panama Title: Reto Centroamericano de Baile TV channel: Telecorporación Salvadoreña (El Salvador) / Teletica (Costa Rica) / Televicentro (Honduras) / Telemetro (Panama) Hosts: Luciana Sandoval (El Salvador) / Edgar Silva (Costa Rica) / Salvador Nasralla (Honduras) / Sasha Arias (Panama) | 2011: Season 1: Nancy Dobles and Diego Torres (Costa Rica) 2012: Season 2: Jessica, Billy, Andrea, Henry, Laura and Héctor (El Salvador) |
| Argentina Title: Bailando TV channel: El Trece Host: Marcelo Tinelli | 2006: Season 1: Carmen Barbieri and Cristian Ponce 2006: Season 2: Florencia De La V and Miguel Rodríguez 2006: Season 3: Carla Conte and Guillermo Conforte 2007: Season 4: Celina Rucci and Matias Sayago 2008: Season 5: Carolina "Pampita" Ardohain and Nicolás Armengol 2009: El Musical de tus Sueños: Silvina Escudero & team 2010: Season 6 - Bailando 2010: Fabio "La Mole" Moli and Mariana Conci / Julia Cejas 2011: Season 7 - Bailando 2011: Hernán Piquín and Noelia Pompa 2012: Season 8 - Bailando 2012: Hernán Piquín and Noelia Pompa 2014: Season 9 - Bailando 2014: Anita Martínez and Marcos "Bicho" Gómez 2015: Season 10 - Bailando 2015: Federico Bal and Laura Fernández 2016: Season 11 - Bailando 2016: Peter Alfonso and Florencia Vigna 2017: Season 12 - Bailando 2017: Florencia Vigna and Gonzalo Gerber 2018: Season 13 - Bailando 2018: Julián Serrano and Sofía Morandi 2019: Season 14 - Bailando 2019: Nicolás Occhiato and Florencia Jazmín Peña 2020: Season 15 - Bailando 2020: Canceled by COVID-19 2021: Season 16 Bailando 2021 (La academia): In broadcast |
| Bolivia Title: Bailando por un Sueño TV channel: Red UNO Hosts: Carlos Rocabado Laura La Faye | 2015: Season 1: Unknown |
| Brazil Title: Bailando por um sonho TV channel: SBT Hosts: Silvio Santos Cynthia Benini | 2006: Season 1: Patrícia Salvador and Leonardo |
| Bulgaria Title: Bailando: Сцена на мечтите TV channel: Nova TV Hosts: Stefania Koleva Georgi Mamalev | 2010: Season 1: Krasimir Karakachanov and Rada Racheva |
| Chile Title: Baila! Al ritmo de un sueño TV channel: Bang TV Chilevisión Host: Simoney Romero, Eva Gómez, Cristian Sánchez | 2013: Season 1: Faloon Larraguibel and Alejandro Herrera 2014: Season 2: Stephanie Méndez and William Orrock |
| Colombia Title: Bailando por un sueño TV channel: RCN Hosts: Paola Turbay and Julián Román | 2006: Season 1: Maria Cecilia Sánchez and Jose Andulfo Leal Garay 2006: Season 2: Carolina Cruz 2006: Season 3: Valentina Rendon and Felipe |
| Costa Rica Title: Bailando por un Sueño TV channel: Teletica Host: Edgar Silva | 2007: Season 1: Mauricio Hoffman and Hazel Linares 2008: Season 2: Viviana Calderón and Franklin Calderon 2010: Season 3: Nancy Dobles and Diego Torres |
| Costa Rica / Panama Title: Bailando por un sueño: Reto Costa Rica-Panamá TV channel: Teletica (Costa Rica) / Telemetro Canal 13 (Panama) Hosts: Edgar Silva (Costa Rica) and Karen Chalmers (Panama) | 2008: Season 1: Viviana Calderón and Franklin Calderón |
| Czech Republic Title: Bailando - Tančím pro tebe TV channel: TV Nova Host: Dalibor Gondík and Kristina Kloubková | 2007: Season 1: Jana Gonsiorová and Tomáš Krejčíř |
| Ecuador Title: Bailando por un Sueño TV channel: Gama TV Host: Yuli Maiocchi | 2006: Season 1: Sofía Caiche 2007: Season 2: Junior Monteiro 2008: Season 3: Juancho Lopez |
| El Salvador Title: Bailando por un Sueño TV channel: Telecorporación Salvadoreña Host: Luciana Sandoval | 2008: Season 1: Karen Solís and Giancarlo Reyes 2009: Season 2: Álex Erazo and Kathleen Ramos 2010: Season 3: Kahory Trujillo and Mauricio Franco |
| Honduras Title: Bailando por un Sueño TV channel: Televicentro Hosts: Salvador Nasralla and Gabriella Ortega | 2010: Season 1: Samuel Martínez "Moncho" and Fabiola Guillen 2012: Season 2: Stefany Galeano and Onel |
| Mexico Title: Bailando por un Sueño (Mexico) TV channel: Televisa Hosts: Adal Ramones and Liza Echeverría (2005) Marco Antonio Regil (2006) Adrián Uribe and Livia Brito (2014) Javier Poza and Barbara Islas (2017) | 2005: Season 1: Latin Lover and Mariana Vallejo 2005: Season 2: Alessandra Rosaldo and Israel Aquino 2005: Ganadores de ganadores: Latin Lover and Mariana Vallejo 2006: Bailando por la Boda de mis Sueños: Jacqueline García / Josué and Margarita 2014: Season 3: María León and Adrián Arellano 2017: Season 4: Adrián Di Monte and Montserrat Yescas |
| Slovakia Title: Tanečný pre Dream TV channel: Markíza Hosts: Adela Banášová and Martin "Pyco" Rausch | 2006: Season 1: Zuzana Fialová and Pedro Modrovský 2008: Season 2: Michaela Čobejová and Tomáš Surovec 2009: Season 3: Juraj Mokrý and Katarina Štumpfová 2010: Season 4: Nela Pocisková and Peter Modrovský |
| Panama Title: Bailando por un Sueño TV channel: Telemetro Canal 13 Hosts: Luis Eduardo Quirós and Jenia Nenzen | 2006: Season 1: Bosco Vallarino and Leslie Ramírez 2007: Season 2: Lula López and José Luis Rodríguez 2008: Season 3: Andrea Peréz and Ángel Jiménez |
| Paraguay Title: Bailando por un sueño (2006-2008) Menchi el Show (2009) TV channel: Telefuturo Hosts: Menchi Barriocanal (2006-2009) | 2006: Season 1: Florencia Gismondi and Oscar Duarte 2007: Season 2: Pedro Guggiari and Maria Elsa Núñez 2007: Season 3: Melissa Quiñonez and Justo Sánchez 2008: Bailando por la Boda de mis Sueños: Helem Roux and Nahuel Ortiz 2009: Season 4: Julio González Abdala and Maia Ayala |
| Paraguay Title: Baila conmigo Paraguay TV channel: Telefuturo Host: Kike Casanova | 2010: Season 1: Nadia Portillo "La Kchorra" and Carlos Céspedes 2011: Season 2: Nadia Portillo "La Kchorra" and Jorge "Coco" Bordón 2012: Season 3: Fabisol Garcete and Rodrigo Servín 2013: Season 4: Marilina Bogado and Diestro Rivas 2014: Season 5: Unknown |
| Peru Title: El Gran Show TV channel: América TV Hosts: Gisela Valcárcel Cristian Rivero Óscar López Arias Paco Bazán Jaime "Choca" Mandros Miguel Arce | 2010: Season 1 - El Gran Show 2010 (season 1): Gisela Ponce de León and Rayder Vásquez 2010: Season 2 - El Gran Show 2010 (season 2): Belén Estévez and Gian Frank Navarro 2010: Season 3 - El Gran Show 2010: Reyes del Show: Miguel Rebosio and Fabianne Hayashida 2011: Season 4 - El Gran Show 2011 (season 1): Raúl Zuazo and Dayana Calla 2011: Season 5 - El Gran Show 2011 (season 2): Jesús Neyra and Lucero Clavijo 2011: Season 6 - El Gran Show 2011: Reyes del Show: Belén Estévez and Waldir Felipa 2012: Season 7 - El Gran Show 2012 (season 1): Jhoany Vegas and Pedro Ibáñez 2012: Season 8 - El Gran Show 2012: Special Edition: Karen Dejo and Oreykel Hidalgo 2013: Season 9 - El Gran Show 2013 (season 1): Emilia Drago and Sergio Lois 2013: Season 10 - El Gran Show 2013 (season 2): Gino Pesaressi and Jacqueline Alfaro 2013: Season 11 - El Gran Show 2013: Reyes del Show: Carolina Cano and Eduardo Pastrana 2015: Season 12 - El Gran Show 2015 (season 1): Melissa Loza and Sergio Álvarez 2015: Season 13 - El Gran Show 2015 (season 2): Ismael La Rosa and Michelle Vallejos 2015: Season 14 - El Gran Show 2015: Reyes del Show: Yahaira Plasencia and George Neyra 2016: Season 15 - El Gran Show 2016 (season 1): Milett Figueroa and Patricio Quiñones 2016: Season 16 - El Gran Show 2016 (season 2): Rosangela Espinoza and Lucas Piró 2016: Season 17 - El Gran Show 2016: Reyes del Show: Rosangela Espinoza and Lucas Piró 2017: Season 18 - El Gran Show 2017 (season 1): Diana Sánchez and Maylor Pérez 2017: Season 19 - El Gran Show 2017 (season 2): Brenda Carvalho and Kevin Ubillus 2017: Season 20 - El Gran Show 2017 (season 3): Anahí de Cárdenas and George Neyra 2017: Season 21 - El Gran Show 2017: Reyes del Show: Brenda Carvalho and Pedro Ibáñez |
| Romania Title: Dansez pentru tine TV channel: Pro TV Hosts: Iulia Vantur and Stefan Banica | 2006: Season 1: Andra and Florin Birică 2006: Season 2: Victor Slav and Carmen Stepan 2007: Season 3: Cosmin Stan and Doina Ocu 2007: Season 4: Alex Velea and Cristina Stoicescu 2008: Season 5: Andreea Bălan and Petrișor Ruge 2008: Season 6: Giulia Anghelescu and Andrei Ștefan 2009: Season 7: Monica Irimia and Darius Belu 2009: Season 8: Jean de la Craiova and Sandra Neacșu 2010: Season 9: Cătălin Moroșanu and Magdalena Ciorobea 2010: Season 10: Octavian Strunilă and Ella Dumitru 2011: Season 11: Corina Bud and Eduard Vasile 2011: Season 12: Jojo and Ionuț Tănase 2012: Season 13: Roxana Ionescu and George Boghian 2013: Season 14: Ilinca Vandici & Răzvan Marton |

## International events

Bailando por un Sueño: Campeonato Internacional de Baile (Meaning Dancing for a Dream: International Dance Championship) was a pan-national competition between winners from various countries.
There were two such contests one in 2007 and another in 2010.