Three-time Dancing with the Stars‘ champion Derek Hough (Pictured here with me) will not be back on the show next season when it returns in March.

The dancer’s rep says he’ll be “taking off” Season 12 of the hit ABC series to shoot the feature film Cobu 3D opposite Korean pop star BoA.

Hough himself told People, “People will see a much edgier side of me and these other styles of dance I’m capable of doing. I will be making it back to Dancing with the Stars in the fall.”

He continued: “I’m just taking a little break and taking this chance to grow and expand a little bit as an artist. It’s like I told one of the producers on the show – I’ll come back with a whole new set of skills.”