DWTS Sets Yacht Rock Night With 13 Couples Remaining

Dancing with the Stars is scheduled to present Yacht Rock Night on September 29, with 13 celebrity-professional couples remaining after chef Giada De Laurentiis and partner Alan Bersten were eliminated in the previous episode. The live broadcast is set for 8 p.m. Eastern on ABC, with a simulcast on Disney. The supplied episode previews do not report results from the September 29 show. The contestants are expected to perform routines to songs associated with yacht rock, spanning styles including jive, cha-cha, foxtrot, samba, quickstep and paso doble. The planned lineup includes Jenna Dewan and Val Chmerkovskiy dancing a samba to Toto’s “Africa,” Maura Higgins and Mark Ballas performing a quickstep to George Benson’s “Turn Your Love Around,” and Ezra Frech and Daniella Karagach taking on a foxtrot to “Just the Two of Us,” by Grover Washington Jr. featuring Bill Withers. Other planned performances include Tyler Cameron and Sharna Burgess dancing a jive to Orleans’ “Still the One,” and Jackson Olson and Emma Slater performing a paso doble to “Easy Lover,” by Philip Bailey and Phil Collins. The program’s remaining couples include Ciara Miller and Brandon Armstrong, Harry Shum Jr.