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DWTS Troupe Carter Williams! (Debut Full Interview)

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🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Carter Williams is a professional dancer and troupe member on *Dancing with the Stars* Season 34. Known for his sharp technique and vibrant stage presence, he brings high energy to every performance. This season, he continues to showcase his passion for dance alongside the show’s celebrity cast.


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0:00.0

Any bumper or dance that we're in for the show, we learn it that day.

0:03.8

That's like where me and Riley's lore comes in,

0:06.0

because everyone's like, how do you know Riley?

0:07.5

How are you new Riley, you're best friends?

0:09.0

So I forget that there's six million people watching.

0:12.0

Who would be your dream celebrity partner?

0:15.0

Jake Shane.

0:16.0

Oh, so when he was there, you really freaked out.

0:17.0

Oh, I was like literally dying.

0:35.1

Congrats on everything, first off. Thank you so much.

0:36.3

Thank you.

0:36.9

What is your first impression of troupe and how is it different from what you thought it would be? Honestly, it's not different than what I thought it was going to be. It has been like literally everything and more I've ever dreamed of, truly. I feel like I've been wanting to do this. I don't even know. Before, if you asked anyone, like before time. So the fact that I'm here, it's like crazy, but Troop is busy.

0:56.8

Troop is like, you're on the go, but I'm kind of used to that. So it's been great. It's just nonstop, practice rehearsals. Exactly, exactly, yeah. Today's Sunday. Yes. The show is in two days. Yes. What's the schedule like for somebody on Troop?

1:09.0

Are you running around between everyone's rehearsals?

1:11.2

Yeah, so I'll give you like the play-by-play from Monday to whatever. What's the schedule like for somebody on Troop? Are you running around between everyone's rehearsals?

1:11.4

Yeah, so I'll give you like the play by play from Monday to whatever. So today's Sunday, let's start here. So Sunday usually is our off day. We get one or two off days on the weekend, which is low key kind of sleigh because it's like the weekend. But Monday is camera blocking. We are there all day, every day. So usually we have a call time of 8 a.m. and we don't leave until 8 p.m. And how much hair makeup, outfit is that? That is just, you're just in practice clothes the whole day. You're just like practicing and you do, you learn all of our new bumper, like any bumper or dance that we're in for the show. We learn it that day. And then we... We learn it that day?

1:44.7

Yeah, we learn any, like, dance that we're going to be in for the pros that day. So we, like, usually we'll have, like, one to two minutes where the pros will be like, okay, I can envision this and this and this, got that, and we're like, sure. And they're like, okay, and three, two, one. And then we're like on ready to go.

1:45.8

So that's kind of that full day is when we get that first rehearsal with the pros and the celebrity and get integrated into their dance. That is Monday in camera block. And then we get to finally see our true bumper or cross for the first time on the ballroom. So that day is just a lot. It's a lot on the brain, but it's busy. And I love it though. I love that because then I feel like I get all my nerves, all my jitters out for show day, which then follows Tuesday. Tuesday show day. We are there sunrise to sundown. Like, it is crazy. Hair makeup, all the whole nine yards, all the things. Then we do our show. Wednesday is probably my hardest day. I think every troop would say Wednesdays are the hardest because you come over Tuesday. Yes, because you come from this high of a show, right? Drenelins going like the show, like to be on that show, I'm like, oh my gosh, I can't believe I'm still doing this, you know? Wednesday hits, we usually have 8 a.m. or 9 a.m. rehearsal for the next show day. So then we usually start that rehearsal from like 9 a.m. to 3, 9 a.m. to 4, 5, 6. Depends. What does that rehearsal look like? It depends. It can look like we do, we first choreograph our troop bumper. Or it can look, we go right into Skeleton Crew for the opening number for next week so kind of varies and that's the same with two that same goes to thursday we kind of vary if we're doing more skeleton stuff or if we're doing routines and then friday is when we have our seven am rehearsal with the pros and we learn the opening number and we kind of help guide them through that opening number we teach them all the things um with the quark for there and that's usually seven to ten sometimes

1:59.9

we'll have like fittings that day all the things Saturday comes around usually off Sunday

3:29.3

usually off so Monday through Friday is jam packed but it's fun we blew right through Tuesday so

3:34.8

I'm so curious I'm like show day, okay. Tuesday, show day, and then Wednesday. Yeah, I'm like, but let's go. So for the show day, you guys get there super early, and then do you have to camera block your troop dances as well and send that in? Yeah, so we do that on Monday, but Tuesday we we have like a camera block again where we like do final, our final, like, camera blocking. And we usually just go through the whole show again. It's kind of an order. And then we usually get hair makeup done. And then we get on our outfits and we're like ready to go. Then we do a dress rehearsal before the show. So then we do a little dress rehearsal with hair makeup. Our costume

3:40.2

people are like on standby. We're like running upstairs doing all the things, getting into our

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