‘Dancing With the Stars’ has featured multiple ballroom pros, including Derek and Julianne Hough, who were raised Mormon in Utah
More than 30 seasons into Dancing With the Stars, there’s still one question that Us needs answered: Why are so many ballroom dancers Mormon?
“There’s nothing else to do,” Armstrong, 30, teased during an interview on the “Lightweights” podcast in October when asked about Utah’s prevalence in ballroom dance culture. “What else do you do? You talk about our biggest cities, like Salt Lake, ain’t nothing there. … You play sports, go to school, date super young — these guys get married when they’re 19, 20 years old — and then you dance.”
Outside of the ballroom dance universe, Utah has produced principal ballet dancers including Robbie and Megan Fairchild, Broadway stars such as Will Swenson and Disney Channel favorites like High School Musical’s KayCee Stroh.In the competitive dance realm, a handful of studios stand out in Salt Lake and the surrounding area. Center Stage Performing Arts Studio trained a number of DWTS pros and mirrorball winners, including the Houghs, the Arnolds, the Sosas, Johnson, Hightower and more.
Mormons can't drink coffee or alcohol — among other strict lifestyle guidelines — but they can apparently shake what their Father gave them on the ballroom floor. Longtime DWTS viewers have witnessed some steamy choreography through the years, with rumbas and cha-chas that can’t quite be classified as modest by Mormon standards. While there are plenty of day-to-day behaviors that the LDS lifestyle considers to be sinful, dancing isn’t one of them.
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