The Keep Dancing Podcast

Movies Week is upon us far sooner than anyone could have hoped. Ellie is joined by AJ and Asha to try and make some sort of sense of it all. This one goes out to all the Furries <3

Also discussed:

- Global warming

- Some nice rendering from 1991 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iQBC2EMPao

- Fifteens https://traybakesandmore.com/fifteens/

- Solid Gold Patter from Oti & Marius https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWTv3a1z3kY

- Noot noot mfers

- A request for a specific diagram

- A specific issue with the new ITT format

- The trousers https://www.vogue.co.uk/fashion/article/sandy-grease-style

- Talking about the 30 seconds of aerial for more than 30 seconds

If you’d like to get in touch, email us at [email protected] or follow us on Instagram at @keepdancingpod and Bluesky at @keepdancingpodcast.bsky.social.

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Don’t forget the shop at https://totallyflagulous.etsy.com where there’s Strictly and Snooker and Football and Taskmaster and Christmas number one stuff!

Our favourite charity is NOT A PHASE, stick them a fiver if you like what you hear.

They’re dancing! They’ve got to keep dancing! Ellie is joined by Ewan and Elliott to rapidly recount all 15 first dances from the 2026 series. Insert apparently compulsory Gavin & Stacey reference!?

Also discussed:

- Strictly needs a third space?

- Are you doing a cha cha or are you getting a cha cha out of the way?

- Sorry, actually Shaun’s second spell at City was under the current management

- A couple of piquant additions to the Forbidden Strictly list

- Ringers are good, actually

- Bananaman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz8XTi4nc5Y

If you’d like to get in touch, email us at [email protected] or follow us on Instagram at @keepdancingpod and Bluesky at @keepdancingpodcast.bsky.social.

You’d better be reading Ariadne’s blog https://ariadnereviews.com/

Don’t forget the shop at https://totallyflagulous.etsy.com where there’s Strictly and Snooker and Football and Taskmaster and Christmas number one stuff!

Our favourite charity is NOT A PHASE, stick them a fiver if you like what you hear.

Keep Dancing Podcast S11 E0: How Soft Is Your Reboot?

As the real world crashes apocalypsewards, we deserve a little strictly, as a treat. Ellie is joined by AJ, Asha, Elliott and Ewan to jump to conclusions and extrapolate from zero data points about our upcoming dance themed themed dance Q4 festival of fun.

Topics:

- Farewell to our departing legends

- New dancers and A CANADIAN?

- A parasocial gossip fantasy

- Some modest proposals

- Year of the Dads

- “Dogs/Ringer”

- Who have we cursed by making them our early fave?

If you’d like to get in touch, email us at [email protected] or follow us on Instagram at @keepdancingpod and Bluesky at @keepdancingpodcast.bsky.social.

You’d better be reading Ariadne’s blog https://ariadnereviews.com/

Don’t forget the shop at https://totallyflagulous.etsy.com where there’s Strictly and Snooker and Football and Taskmaster and Christmas number one stuff!

Our favourite charity is NOT A PHASE, stick them a fiver if you like what you hear.

Keep Dancing Podcast S11 E0: How Soft Is Your Reboot?

As the real world crashes apocalypsewards, we deserve a little strictly, as a treat. Ellie is joined by AJ, Asha, Elliott and Ewan to jump to conclusions and extrapolate from zero data points about our upcoming dance themed themed dance Q4 festival of fun.

Topics:

- Farewell to our departing legends

- New dancers and A CANADIAN?

- A parasocial gossip fantasy

- Some modest proposals

- Year of the Dads

- “Dogs/Ringer”

- Who have we cursed by making them our early fave?

If you’d like to get in touch, email us at [email protected] or follow us on Instagram at @keepdancingpod and Bluesky at @keepdancingpodcast.bsky.social.

You’d better be reading Ariadne’s blog https://ariadnereviews.com/

Don’t forget the shop at https://totallyflagulous.etsy.com where there’s Strictly and Snooker and Football and Taskmaster and Christmas number one stuff!

Our favourite charity is NOT A PHASE, stick them a fiver if you like what you hear.

Who’s in Marlon Brando’s Vegan Biker Gang? Ellie and Asha are here for leather, hem and LBD discourse.

Also discussed:

- Good leather

- Plant leather https://alternativeleathers.com/products/desserto-cactus-leather?variant=41589542027404

- Dear god please do something else with the transformation challenge

- Not wearing white before or after Labor Day

- The All Saints Parachute dress https://www.allsaints.com/features/parachute-dress.html

- REFLECTIVE fabrics!! https://www.helloreflectives.com/

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If you’d like to get in touch, email us at [email protected] or follow us on Instagram at @keepdancingpod and Bluesky at @keepdancingpodcast.bsky.social.

You’d better be reading Ariadne’s blog https://ariadnereviews.com/

Don’t forget the shop at https://totallyflagulous.etsy.com where there’s Strictly and Snooker and Football and Taskmaster and Christmas number one stuff!

Our favourite charity is NOT A PHASE, stick them a fiver if you like what you hear.

Huge cheers to Rebecca for having one of the most effective Sewing Bee stints in history. A super new wardrobe! Awesome friends! Accommodations! Worker’s rights! Ellie is joined by AJ & Asha to pretend to know what constitutes a gap and pretend not to know about Roald Dahl’s views about women. Slubs!

Also discussed:

- We did miss a week, sorry

- Who would have worn which deerstalker?

- Alternative literary transformation challenges

- More alternative literary transformation challenges

- Solving for Bridgerton

- In Bed With The Right on Jane Eyre https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-151-jane-eyre/id1696774612?i=1000787545439

- Please no more hem discourse

- Some vague guesses about historical hair

- Historical costume YouTube is cool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jzr7m-OCFas

If you’d like to get in touch, email us at [email protected] or follow us on Instagram at @keepdancingpod and Bluesky at @keepdancingpodcast.bsky.social.

You’d better be reading Ariadne’s blog https://ariadnereviews.com/

Don’t forget the shop at https://totallyflagulous.etsy.com where there’s Strictly and Snooker and Football and Taskmaster and Christmas number one stuff!

Our favourite charity is NOT A PHASE, stick them a fiver if you like what you hear.

Keep Sewing Podcast S4 E6 - Pants Trauma

It turns out that children are people! Ellie, AJ and Asha investigate clothes, but smaller. It all ends in discourse, naturally.

Diversions include:

- Supermarket kids clothes genders

- The Magic of Dance with Margot Fonteyn https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0gwdrjj/the-magic-of-dance-series-1-4-the-romantic-ballet

- Cat Ouija https://www.petsathome.com/product/pets-at-home-halloween-ouija-board-cat-toy/7154694P?productId=7154694&size=oneSize

- Orville & Cuddles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0V5xiMK8_4

- Dinosaur Beef https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/679-the-bone-wars/

- Conical hat issues

If you’d like to get in touch, email us at [email protected] or follow us on Instagram at @keepdancingpod and Bluesky at @keepdancingpodcast.bsky.social.

You’d better be reading Ariadne’s blog https://ariadnereviews.com/

Don’t forget the shop at https://totallyflagulous.etsy.com where there’s Strictly and Snooker and Football and Taskmaster and Christmas number one stuff!

Our favourite charity is NOT A PHASE, stick them a fiver if you like what you hear.

Sports week! What *do* men like? Surprising numbers of mentions of The Stranglers, maybe? Ellie is joined by AJ and Asha to talk about sewing stuff for jigging about in. We wish we were at the Jamboree.

- Modern Pentathlon obstacle course I AM NOT MESSING WITH YOU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeIV9mu1mmI

- Aesthetics of kitesurfers vs windsurfers

- An idea for a ‘hairdressing’ reality show

- SANDCASTLE BAKE OFF https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m002zkr2/race-against-the-tide

- The Cheetah Citation https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cheetah-dog-furry-friendship

- High end Methodist banner game

- Ewan’s Fringe podcast https://thepodcastcorner.com/show/edinburghfringe/

If you’d like to get in touch, email us at [email protected] or follow us on Instagram at @keepdancingpod and Bluesky at @keepdancingpodcast.bsky.social.

You’d better be reading Ariadne’s blog https://ariadnereviews.com/

Don’t forget the shop at https://totallyflagulous.etsy.com where there’s Strictly and Snooker and Football and Taskmaster and Christmas number one stuff!

Our favourite charity is NOT A PHASE, stick them a fiver if you like what you hear.

We’re off to Mexico and we might never shut up about it! Ellie is joined by AJ and Asha to talk trim, fann(y)ing about and ribbons. It’s a bit of a rapid run through but we bid farewell to a real one.

- Prepare for your in-depth lecture on Mexican weaving https://statemuseum.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/Wrapped%20in%20Color%20Exhibit%20Booklet%202.pdf

- The endangered crafts list https://heritagecrafts.org.uk/skills/redlist/

- World of Wearable art https://www.worldofwearableart.com/

- What is pigeon milk? https://www.distractify.com/p/what-is-pigeon-milk-animal-crossing

- We’re not doing the Met Gala any more

If you’d like to get in touch, email us at [email protected] or follow us on Instagram at @keepdancingpod and Bluesky at @keepdancingpodcast.bsky.social.

You’d better be reading Ariadne’s blog https://ariadnereviews.com/

Don’t forget the shop at https://totallyflagulous.etsy.com where there’s Strictly and Snooker and Football and Taskmaster and Christmas number one stuff!

Our favourite charity is NOT A PHASE, stick them a fiver if you like what you hear.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Returns! Let’s upcycle our way out of this modern hell! This episode starts out with Ellie, Asha and Elliott talking about our favourite ecohabits then we actually get to talking about the Sewing Bee. Sorry for being depressing, but it makes you think dunnit.

- Miniml cleaning gloops https://minimlrefills.co.uk/

- Locavore, you might have something like this near you https://www.locavore.scot/

- The Energy Dashboard! https://www.energydashboard.co.uk/live

- How an Overlocker works https://weallsew.com/overlocker-for-beginners-an-introduction-to-sergers/

- The knickers https://communityclothing.co.uk/collections/womens-underwear/products/womens-high-rise-brief-2-pack-black

- Bow discourse

- Barbie Exhibition https://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/museums/venues/kelvingrove-art-gallery-and-museum/barbie-the-exhibition

- Hemgate as a failure of The Edit

- Ikea dress https://shunvogue.com/article/how-to-make-a-dress-out-of-an-ikea-bag

If you’d like to get in touch, email us at [email protected] or follow us on Instagram at @keepdancingpod and Bluesky at @keepdancingpodcast.bsky.social.

You’d better be reading Ariadne’s blog https://ariadnereviews.com/

Don’t forget the shop at https://totallyflagulous.etsy.com where there’s Strictly and Snooker and Football and Taskmaster and Christmas number one stuff!

Our favourite charity is NOT A PHASE, stick them a fiver if you like what you hear.