Audiences attending Tuesday's "Dancing with the Stars" Tour at the E Center will see not only the stars of today but also the stars of tomorrow.

That's because sharing the stage with stars like Lance Bass and Utah's Derek Hough will be more than 50 young dancers from Orem's Center Stage Performing Arts.

"We're taking the next generation and putting them onstage," said Center Stage's artistic director, Kim Del Grosso. "They're excited and ready to go."

The opportunity came about because of the close relationships the studio has with many of the show's dancers and producers, said the studio's owner, Alex Murillo. And the West Valley City stop is the only one on the tour where young dancers will join the professionals to perform onstage.

Stars on the show -- such as Julianne and Derek Hough and Kim's daughter Ashly Del Grosso -- were once students at Center Stage, he said. Other successful dancers to have trained at the Orem facility include Murillo's son Jared, who was a principal dancer and assistant choreographer for the first two "High School Musical" films and now is in the boy-band V Factory. Marie Osmond also trained there during her successful run on the show.

Young Center Stage dancers will take the stage for an eight-minute set at the beginning of act 2, Del Grosso said. Sixteen couples, between ages 5 and 11, will jive, while the professional dancers will perform a blend of jazz, hip-hop, ballroom and pointe, a variation of ballet.

The dancers at Center Stage "worship" Derek Hough, Del Grosso said, and are thrilled to be sharing the stage with him, the winner of the most recent season of the show. (Julianne Hough will not be appearing on the tour.)

In an interview, Derek Hough said he was "overwhelmed with joy" to finally win after his younger sister had won twice. Julianne never teased him about her success, and campaigned for his win after she was eliminated from last season's run, he said.

Hough was pleased that students from his alma mater will be performing onstage at the E Center. "I'm glad people from Utah are getting the recognition they deserve," he said. "With religion, they focus their energies on learning a skill rather than going clubbing."

Derek's father, Bruce, labeled his son "the hardest-working man in show business" during this tour because in each of 38 cities, Derek and fellow dancer Mark Ballas will perform a music concert at a nearby venue immediately after the dance concert. In Utah, the Ballas Hough Band, which will release its album on Hollywood Records in March, will perform at the Murray Theater about 10:30 the same night as the "Dancing" tour stop (tickets available at the door).

Another star performing on the "Dancing with the Stars" Tour is former N*SYNC singer Lance Bass. In an interview, he said he had become aware of Utah's dance talent after becoming friends with the Houghs while competing this season. "I have a lot of friends in Salt Lake City who are very talented artists," Bass said.

Bass, who is gay, said he doesn't hold the success of California's Proposition 8 against The Church of Jesus of Latter-day Saints or Utah, although the November passage of the ballot measure outlawing gay marriage "sets us back in the community."

Bass' partner on the show and on tour is Lacey Schwimmer, a California native and LDS member who won the U.S. title of the Young Adult Division of the 2004 U.S. Open Swing Dance Championships, as well as the U.S. National Youth Latin Championship in 2006.

Schwimmer's partner for those championships? Jared Murillo.