Todrick Hall, Alyson Stoner, Matt Steffanina among judges for new DanceOn competition
LOS ANGELES -- DanceOn has added a new show featuring dancing teens to its go90 line-up.
Dance-Off Juniors, which will debuts on Verizon's mobile platform April 20, is a dance competition features 30 dancers (ages 10-16) competing weekly for a $5,000 prize. The first season is composed of 10 twenty-minute episodes.
The judges include celebrity dancers and choreographers Matt Steffanina, YouTuber Todrick Hall (who has his own MTV show), Alyson Stoner (known for Cheaper By the Dozen and Missy Elliot music videos) and Ladia Yates. It is hosted by Devon Werkheiser, from Nickelodeon’s Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide.
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The show is one of the 25 original series DanceOn is making exclusively for go90 as part of its previously announced partnership.
The Hollywood-based digital media company, which celebrates music and dance in pop culture, was co-founded by Amanda Taylor, iconic artist Madonna, Guy Oseary and Machinima chairman Allen DeBevoise. Investors include Allen DeBevoise, AMC Networks, Third Wave Ventures and others.
The network boasts 5 billion views, 30 million subscribers and 75 million fans across its platforms.
Other DanceOn Go90 series include: Every Single Step, a choreography competition executive produced by Nigel Lythgoe (FOX’s So You Think You Can Dance) and Chachi’s World, a docu-series following dancer and social media superstar Chachi Gonzales (winner of MTV’s America’s Best Dance Crew).
“DanceOn aims to elevate rising stars of music and dance through engaging, high quality programming. We have so many talented kids in our network, we realized our next step was to produce a mobile-first competition series for them,” Taylor said in a statement. “We’ve assembled an incredible group of contestants, some of which dance for the biggest names in music including Katy Perry, Missy Elliott, and Mariah Carey.”
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Saba was a Los Angeles-based reporter who covers all things digital entertainment, including YouTube, streaming services and digital influencers. Prior to that, she spent two years at the Los Angeles Times covering entertainment for the Calendar and Company Town sections. Saba grew up in Santa Monica and graduated from Boston University with a B.S. in journalism and B.A. in political science. When not reporting, she is usually binge watching shows online or looking for new coffee shops to frequent.
