Alan Bersten: The Power of Communication
The Squeeze
Taylor Lautner
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode, Tay sits down with dancer, choreographer, and Dancing with the Stars pro Alan Bersten! Alan shares everything from how young he was when he first fell in love with dance to the moment he realized he wanted to pursue it professionally. He reflects on his early days on So You Think You Can Dance, how many years he’s now been part of Dancing with the Stars, and what it was like learning how to teach complete non-dancers. Alan also opens up about going public with his relationship with Emma Slater, navigating online opinions, and setting boundaries with social media — especially while working on a show with such a massive digital presence. He talks about partnering with Elaine Hendrix this season, the injury that kept her out of the Halloween episode, his favorite dance of the season, the styles he loves and least loves to teach, and the self-care rituals that help him reset after long rehearsal days. To close, we round out the episode with Lemon 7!
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:04.2 | I saw these questions. |
| 0:05.6 | I wrote it down and I forgot. |
| 0:07.5 | I think everyone that watched the show on Halloween was like, oh my God, he's so sad. |
| 0:11.4 | I can't control my emotions at all. |
| 0:14.1 | I started dancing when I was seven years old. |
| 0:16.1 | 31 now. |
| 0:17.2 | Basic math. |
| 0:18.4 | 24 years. |
| 0:19.5 | And so I think when like growing up, I was like, oh, I'll probably just teach at the studio and do things I never really expected to be on TV for it. You don't think, oh, I'm going to move to L.A. and dance for a living. Didn't get a real job. I started going to school. I went to the University of Minnesota. Dropped out twice. Oh, wow. We tried, we tried a. It's incredible. Like, Elaine is so special. Yeah. She works so hard. She brings so much joy and she cares so much. Quality of celebrities, like their dance ability, is so high. Yeah. They're like, everyone's stepping up their game and the dances are better than ever and I hope so too because |
| 0:54.3 | that just ups my chances of me being on the show one day sweets of the timeline because one of the year |
| 0:58.7 | I'm like I'm getting older my hips hurt a little more I say things abruptly tone wasn't a thing like |
| 1:04.3 | my intentions are always good so I'm just I'm just gonna say it yeah I grew up as like if there's a |
| 1:09.2 | problem you address it in my mind everything can be solved with communication. |
| 1:13.7 | I know a lot of people are like, oh, it's hard. It is hard, but like I'm so lucky. I get to go with Emma. I bring my dog Jeff and I get a dance every day. To me, it's like the best thing ever. Exactly. they can just like hook up a little trailer |
| 1:25.7 | to your guys's RV |
| 1:27.7 | Exactly |
| 1:28.4 | RV what is it called |
| 1:30.5 | What is it called bus? |
| 1:30.8 | Tourville Exactly. They can just like hook up a little trailer to your guys's RV. |
| 1:27.9 | Exactly. |
| 1:28.7 | RV, what is it called? Bus. |
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