The Keep Dancing Podcast

What light through that window yonder over there? It is Movie Week on Strictly and that is not Gene Kelly’s Bum. Ellie is joined by AJ, Meg and Milly to throw popcorn and cheer.

Also discussed:

- Nadiya’s celeb partner Geoff (he’s been there literally the whole time)

- Tactical choreo from ‘Austrian Ken’

- How To Animal Discourse

- The Shipping Forecast (is it real? Who cares?)

- Chainmail Pashmina Mass Considerations

- Forbidden Strictly Routines

- Some level of skill (and lots of enthusiasm!)

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It’s Week 2 and what we lack in coherence we’re making up for with enthusiasm. Ellie is joined by AJ, Meg and Elliot to break down the tropes and tricks of the tactical dance show. Elliot is apparently recording next to a dual carriageway, we’re sorry and we’ve told him not to do that again.

Also discussed:

- A brief history of the DashCon Fiasco

- Stress dreams vs The Hoist Curse

- How to make an LED chair

- More fodder for the Forbidden Strictly list

- Nine Inch Nails vs Mario, not for the children? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1oUhdWqoqY&ab_channel=LISGODDESS

- The Medium Sized Question: your denim confessions

- That film where everyone is [REDACTED] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6842770

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KDP S8E1: We Know Why He’s Here

Ellie is joined by Emily, AJ and Elliot to review the first of the Big Long Shows of Strictly 2023. There are, as always, so many of them. But at least we now have some idea what Nigel Harman is doing here.

Also discussed:

- A curious focus on the availability of tools?

- A terrifying future for Time Travelling Kai

- Interceptor http://www.ukgameshows.com/ukgs/Interceptor

- Week 1 Sambas We Have Known

- Cast Michael van Gerwen, you cowards

- Becoming Brendan and why you shouldn’t

- Ellie reads the YouTube stats in the manner of the football classified results

We had some audio delay issues which explains why Milly is only sparsely present. We are investigating the internet tubes and hope to sort it out.

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Let’s get warmed up for the 2023 series of Strictly! Ellie, Milly and Elliot preview the cast, sort them into Them, Who and Why and prepare a whole new basket of explicable and inexplicable grudges.

Who will we stan? Who is down to clown? Who is this year’s frock fave? Who will we inevitably forget is even involved?

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KDP S7E12: RIP Countryfile

Our second WRONG DAY Strictly episode in a row and we’re not so much disappointed as confused and adrift in time. Ellie is joined by Elliot, Vikki, AJ, Ariadne and Meg.

Also discussed:

- Adding more songs to the Forbidden Strictly list

- There are two wolves, but we don’t talk about them

- Does your throw match your sofa?

- The Traitors soundtrack deep dive

- Cape fear and The Dads

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KDP S7E11: Dave Arch the Empath. Gorka the Chair.

Life certainly is a cabaret, old chum, and we’ve got a nice table in the corner. Ellie is joined by Ariadne, Meg, Ann and Milly to stare, agog.

Also discussed:

- Molly’s televote, state of mind

- Goodbye songs and who chooses them

- Do not let us give DSI ideas

- That very particular Strictly audience scream

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After Blackpool we’re all feeling like butter spread over too much bread. Ellie is joined by AJ, Ariadne, Ann, Milly and Meg to do a little bit of a scoring reset.

Also discussed:

- Elliot qualifying for Blackpool!

- Music on physical media, an appreciation

- The Wrong Joe

- Ongoing Les Mis references

- A Terrible Handbag

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It’s Blackpool week! Ellie is joined by AJ, Elliot, Milly and Milly’s budgie to do a lot of dubious material about The North. And discuss some dancing.

Also mentioned:

- Play QWOP http://www.foddy.net/Athletics.html

- Who vs Them theory

- Wigs and Strictly, just say no

- Do they have pubs in the South?

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KDP S7E8: The Fever of the Saturday Night

It’s the night where we say Blackpool a lot! Somehow even more often than when we’re actually in Blackpool! Ellie is joined by AJ, Vikki, Elliot and Meg to see who is going to be partaking in next week’s legendary afterparty.

Also discussed:

- some cosy retro dances this week

- how much is the right amount of jeopardy?

- the different kinds of being silly

- two incorrect footwear selections

- disastrous winner’s stills we have known

- communicating joy on the Hamza Hype Train

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KDP S7E7: Sugar Tax Special

The merciful absence of any overarching theme from the program means we have to impose our own. Ellie is joined by AJ, Ann, Elliot and Meg to see who is eating their vegetables and who is an unstoppable cinnamon roll. LITTLE SHOES! Fluorescing objects!

Also discussed:

- A taxonomy of dance cliches

- We blame HRVY

- What happens in parks?

- General Graziano love

- Verbal descriptions of memes (regular segment)

- Who would we like to know better?

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