Season one of Dance War premiered on January 7, 2008, on ABC and concluded with a two-hour finale on February 18, 2008.

[1] The two stars of this show, Bruno Tonioli and Carrie Ann, chose and trained two rival teams of singing/dancing amateur performers that competed against each other.

[5] After seeing all the men perform again, Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli chose who was going to be in their respective dance groups.

The second group performed "Lady Marmalade" in the voice of Christina Aguilera, Mýa, Pink, and Lil' Kim.

While Carrie Ann was second to choose, and she chose to have Marqis (Qis) and Allysa in her dance group.

The final two groups were as follows (in alphabetical order): The theme of the show for week 3 was "Pop Music".

The opening number performed together by both groups was "Land of a Thousand Dances" by Wilson Pickett.

Team Carrie Ann performed "Papa Was A Rollin' Stone" by the Temptations and "Upside Down" by Diana Ross.

[7] After each team had performed twice, the host, Drew Lachey, announced the results from last week's voting.

Kelsey and Charity had to perform one final time by singing "Don't Leave Me This Way" by Thelma Houston.

Team Carrie Ann performed first, singing and dancing to "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" by the Charlie Daniels Band.

In the end, last week's vote went in favor of Team Carrie Ann, and Bruno was forced to cut another dancer from his squad.

Team Carrie Ann performed first, singing and dancing to "Conga" by Gloria Estefan.

Chris and Allysa were left in the bottom 2, and sang "Hero" by Enrique Iglesias for the opportunity to stay on the team.