Star Dancers Anya Garnis and Pasha Kovalev to Join Burn the Floor

Star dancers Anya Garnis and Pasha Kovalev will join the cast of Burn the Floor on August 18 at Broadway’s Longacre Theatre. They replace featured couple Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Karina Smirnoff, who are set to depart on August 16 for the upcoming season of Dancing with the Stars. Burn the Floor opened on August 2, directed and choreographed by Jason Gilkison.

Garnis and Kovalev have become fan favorites on TV’s So You Think You Can Dance. The Latvian-born Anya and Siberian-born Pasha have also appeared as guest dancers on Dancing with the Stars and Superstars of Dance.

Burn the Floor’s cast includes award-winning ballroom dancers from Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Russia, Australia, Sweden, the Philippines and the United States. The show presents ballroom dancing with a sexy 21st-century edge, with numbers that feature jive, paso doble, foxtrot, tango, samba, mambo, quickstep, swing, waltz, cha-cha, rumba, salsa and more.