Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 16)

Season 16 of Dancing with the Stars will start March 18, 2013.

Couples
The cast of eleven and their professional partners was announced on February 26, 2013 on Good Morning America. Professional dancers Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Chelsie Hightower, Louis van Amstel, and Anna Trebunskaya who participated in the previous season, will not be returning.

Lindsay Arnold, a contestant from season nine of So You Think You Can Dance will be introduced as a new professional along with Troupe member Sharna Burgess and Gleb Savchenko, who recently participated as a professional on season twelve of the Australian version of Dancing with the Stars.

It is unknown that all eleven will be on Ben and Toad's Contest.

Scoring chart

 * Red numbers indicate the lowest score for each week
 * Green numbers indicate the highest score for each week
 * the couple eliminated that week
 * the returning couple finishing in the bottom two (or three)
 * the returning couple that was the last to be called safe
 * the winning couple
 * the runner-up couple
 * the third-place couple

Averages
This table only counts for dances scored on a traditional 30-points scale.

Highest and lowest scoring performances
The best and worst performances in each dance according to the judges' 30-point scale are as follows:

Couples' highest and lowest scoring dances
According to the traditional 30-point scale: