Season 3 of Dance Plus tag line ek level up started on 1 July 2017 on STAR Plus and produced by Urban Brew Studios. Winner was Bir Radha Sherpa, from team Punit. Other three contestants from Top four were from Dharmesh's team, a new record for the finalists. Amardeep Singh Natt became the first runner up, Aryan Patra became the second runner up and Shivani and Tarun were the third runner up. All the finalists won the hearts of public with their entertaining and excellent performances. Overall, Team Dharmesh has two winners from season one and two, Team Punit has one and Shakti Mohan has none. Show is acclaimed and very popular due to creative format and uniqueness.
Super judge Remo D'Souza is the super judge for this season also. He is a well known and reputed choreographer and film director. He directed movies like F.A.L.T.U., Any Body Can Dance (ABCD and ABCD 2), A Flying Jatt and Race 3. He was also judge on Jhalak Dikhla Ja and Dance India Dance (seasons 1, 2 and 3).
Captains There are three captains on the show. Dharmesh Yelande Shakti Mohan Punit Pathak
Each mentor has their own team consisting of contestants selected in auditions. There will be one final winner at the end of the show.
Urban Brew Studios produces the first, second and third seasons of Dance+ on STAR Plus.
Scoring Each captain will give a challenge to one artist each from the other two teams. The challenges are: Theme round Prop round Best foot forward The captain who gave the challenge can score out of five and the super judge can score out of ten. The super judge can also give five additional points.
The fourth round is the international squad challenge in which one member of each team has to match the level of dancing of the international dancer. This round is also scored out of ten by the super judge and he can give an additional five points.
Based on the scores of these rounds, two teams go to the final showdown. The fourth artist from each team performs and the super judge chooses the winner. The winning team's captain nominates two artists from his or her team to go forward and the super judge chooses the artist who will go to top eight.
Top twelve artists Team DharmeshSr.ArtistsTypeStyleHome town1Tarun and ShivaniDuoContemporaryTarun Nihalani from NasikShivani Patel from Ahmedabad2Amardeep Singh NattSoloRoboticsMumbai3The Tuttix CrewGroupTuttingMumbai4Aryan PatraSoloKrumpingRanchi
Team ShaktiSr.ArtistsTypeStyleHome town1NostalgiaTrio (Gavin, Nicky, Leo)Rhythmic Beat KillMangalore2Sri Rama Nataka NiketanGroupBharatanatyamHyderabad3Chow En Lai PhukanSoloContemporaryGuwahati4Jeet DasSoloBollywoodKolkata
Team PunitSr.ArtistsTypeStyleHome town1Bir Radha SherpaSoloB-Boying and ContemporarySilchar, Assam2House of SurajGroupWaackingLos Angeles3AVP CrewTrioFreestyle and Hip-HopPune4Ayush & MukeshDuoContemporaryKolkata
International squad challenge In Dance plus season 3, D'Souza added a new challenge for dancers. Here he will invite an international dance artist every week.
Remo's international squadSr.Artist(s)TypeStyleHome townKnown forEpisode1Du-Shaunt '"Fik-Shun" StegallSoloHip-hop Las Vegas, United StatesWinner of So You Think You Can Dance (U.S. season 10)July 23–242 Paul Karmiryan & Brittany CherryDuoLatin dance Los Angeles, United StatesSo You Think You Can Dance (U.S. season 10)July 29–303DyttoSoloTutting, animation, slow motion, robotic dance Los Angeles, United StatesWorld of DanceAugust 5–64 Pandit Birju Maharaj's GroupCulturalKathak Lucknow, IndiaKalidas SammanAugust 12–135Philippine All StarsGroupHip-hop Manila, PhilippinesChampions of World Hip Hop Dance Championship (2006, 2008 & 2009 seasons)August 19–20
Top eight artists Top 8Sr.ArtistsTypeStyleTeamEpisode1Aryan PatraSoloKrumpingDharmeshJuly 242Ayush & MukeshDuoContemporaryPunitJuly 303AVP CrewTrioHip-hopPunitAugust 64Sri Rama Nataka NiketanGroupBharatanatyamShaktiAugust 135Amardeep Singh NattSoloRoboticsDharmeshAugust 206Bir Radha SherpaSoloBir Style (B-Boying & Contemporary)PunitAugust 277Tarun and ShivaniDuoContemporaryDharmeshAugust 278House of SurajGroupWaackingPunitAugust 27
Top four artists Top 4Sr.ArtistsTypeStyleTeamEpisode1Bir Radha SherpaSoloBir Style (B-Boying & Contemporary)PunitSeptember 92Tarun and ShivaniDuoContemporaryDharmeshSeptember 93Amardeep Singh NattSoloRoboticsDharmeshSeptember 164Aryan PatraSoloKrumpingDharmeshSeptember 16
Special guests Special Guest Appearances Sr.Guest(s)ReasonEpisode1Shah Rukh Khan and Imtiaz AliPromoting their film Jab Harry Met Sejal29–30 July2Akshay Kumar and Bhumi PednekarPromoting their film Toilet: Ek Prem Katha12 August3Ayushmann Khurrana, Kriti Sanon and Rajkummar RaoPromoting their film Bareilly Ki Barfi19–20 August4Sidharth Malhotra and Jacqueline FernandezPromoting their film A Gentleman26 August5Mithali Raj and Harmanpreet KaurIndian Women Cricketers27 August6GovindaIndian 1990s Dance Icon2 September7Sunny Deol, Bobby Deol and Shreyas TalpadePromoting their film Poster Boys9 September8Shraddha Kapoor, Siddhanth Kapoor and Ankur BhatiaPromoting their film Haseena Parkar10 September9Kangana RanautPromoting her film Simran16 September10Farah KhanPromoting her show Lip Sing Battle16 September11Tiger ShroffSpecial Appearance17 September12Terence LewisSpecial Appearance17 September13Varun Dhawan, Taapsee Pannu and Jacqueline FernandezPromoting their film Judwaa 223 September14Prabhu DevaSpecial Appearance24 September
See also List of dance style categories Dance Plus Dance Plus (season 2)
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