The Keep Dancing Podcast

KDP S7E6: I Have Never Seen Beetlejuice

It’s Halloween and the glittery trapdoor creaks into life to claim another victim. Ellie is joined by Elliot, AJ, Vikki and Milly to find out who on the winner track and who is full of bees.

Also mentioned:

- The concept of ‘scrubs up well’ points

- Ice levels in various games

- Dance moves have names

- Tumblr sexymen and you: a guide for newbs

- Verbal descriptions of memes

- An extended chef metaphor

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The BBC has survived 100 years and we have survived Strictly celebrating the BBC surviving 100 years. Ellie is joined by Meg, Elliot, Vikki, AJ and Ariadne to survey the wreckage. You wouldn’t believe the amount of sighs edited out of this recording.

- Vikki questions the entire premise

- The vibes-based framework for dance criticism

- What doesn’t *not* give pirate?

- Can you stand in front of a pub that isn’t really there?

- Don’t bring your passion project to theme week

- Can we have the wide angle of Tony’s routine please?

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With the horror of a brand new theme week on the horizon, we experience something close to a vintage all-time great episode of the silly dance show! Ellie is joined by AJ, Elliott, Ann, Emily, Ariadne and Vikki to pull it all apart.

On the agenda:

- Ariadne has been perceived

- The soft reboot of Strictly

- The meaning of the Friends VT

- Who’s on the Hamza Hipster Hype Train?

- Have we got it wrong about Lulu?

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POV: you are cinema and news of your death has been greatly exaggerated. Ellie is joined by Elliot, Ariadne, Emily, Meg and AJ to throw popcorn at Movies Week. Sorry if any stray coughs got through - always annoying when you’re at the pictures.

Big questions include:

- Shall we stop the podcast to think about the Carlos/Nikita rumba?

- Who has rage buried within themselves?

- They’ve put 50p in the AR graphics machine: why?

- Is Tyler going to be ok?

- A Grimm proposal

- James Bye Walkman Plot Hole

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It’s the Week 2 Slump! Ellie is joined by Elliot, Milly, Vikki and Ariadne to pick the nice dumplings out of the dance flavoured stew.

Chat topics:

- We’re in favour of Tyler <3 Torches

- The Strictly curtain twitchers can DO ONE

- How to not be a Joke Contestant

- Exactly three new sound effects

- Please go look at @CocaineDecor on twitter and instagram

- Who originated the Jurassic Park rumba meme?

- Oh yeah, @YoureWrongAbout on Disco is great too

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Strictly is back and so are we! We’re giving you reactions to the pairings and Week 1 dances all in the same episode because of The Event.

Digressions include:

- Who had some very special Hearsay merch?

- Graziano’s dinner

- Which pairing name got vetoed?

- The Cult of Goss

- One of us met one of the celebs one time

- Hamza stans, that’s us

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Ellie is joined by Elliot and Ariadne (plus voice notes from Ann and AJ). We’re previewing the 2022 Strictly cast, crew and overall situation.

Asides include:

- We’ve all been watching a lot of reality TV

- Will Mellor’s highly dedicated fan blog

- How *do* bisexuals ballroom dance?

- Handball in the UK

- Who will, sadly, never be able to do Strictly?

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Oti is leaving Strictly, so we got together to chat about our favourite Oti routines and generally do an audio thank-you card.

For the Oti interview episode, listen here!

https://soundcloud.com/keepdancingpodcast/keep-dancing-preview-when-ellie-met-oti

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Sometimes Christmas specials are weirdly timed and low effort spectacles that don’t stand up to much scrutiny. Here’s one of those.

Ellie is joined by Milly and Vikki live on the call and Ann and AJ on the hot take answering machine.

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Everyone is feeling even more buoyant than normal as we get the final that we want and wave our demanding little fists in the air. Ellie is joined by AJ, Ann, Ariadne, Meg and Milly to not be in any way triumphalist.

Diversions include:

- Great graphics packages we have known

- The reasonable face of Stan twitter

- Contempo-not-waft

- John Lewis Christmas decor

- Very mature rumba chat

- (Not for the first time) Gene Kelly’s arse

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