The Keep Dancing Podcast

Quarter finals! Where the bold and the brave get dropped on their bums - both literally and metaphorically. Ellie is joined by AJ, Ariadne, Emily, Meg and Vikki to go through the missed lifts frame by frame. Except not really.

Also featuring:

- Vintage memes!

- How do you solve a problem like the salsa?

- Someone should do Couple’s choice: a tribute to Pina Bausch

- The Rhys + Transport Conspiracy

- An excursion to Shipper’s Corner plus some gazebo logistics

- Back alleys you can really believe in

- General lift dread

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As the end draws near, there’s a sense of jeopardy and tension on the dancefloor. Ellie is joined by Ann, Vikki and Milly to enjoy dramatic readings of Elliot’s whatsapps as we pick apart week 10 of Strictly and run down everyone’s dance cards.

The big issues:

- Where’s Elliot?

- Who should dance to Agadoo?

- What have AJ & Kai got left for a show dance?

- A challenging idea for a theme week

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Thanks to an extraordinary guest judge booking, Musicals week proves to have all the drama and hilarity of [insert your personal fave show here] and we are HERE FOR IT.

This week’s big questions:

- What kind of Tardis does Time Travellin’ Kai have?

- Has Rhys not taken the afternoon off yet?

- Chimney sweeps are mystical, deal with it

- Nobody is talking about Daz Sampson

- Dan can’t make the final…. can he?

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As promised, this week’s episode is mainly gnashing and wailing about the dance off and the continued success of slightly mediocre men. Ellie is joined by Ann, Meg, Emily and Elliot to wave goodbye to our Angel of the North.

The big issues:

- Why. Why. Why.

- References to nicotine products on family shows

- Is it ‘the best’ or ‘the most recent’?

- A ‘back to the office’ conspiracy theory

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As a special halfway-through-the-series treat, Ellie is joined by Ariadne and Ewan to look at Strictly storylines over this series, the past few series and the whole 19 year life of the show so far. We chat about how the ‘rona has shaken up the show for better (or worse?) and what the 2021 story so far tells us about who should and who *will* make the final.

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Ewan is a TV entertainment expert and podcasts at ESC Insight www.escinsight.com

A couple of things have gone missing: the post theme week score reset and also the cold open to this episode. Oops. Ellie is joined by Ann, Meg and Milly to ponder upon it all.

The big topics include:

- Artistic Swimming and why Peaty ought to try it

- Some …creative… ideas for Rose’s show dance

- Non-standard cummerbund lengths

- Demands for feet footage

- Further theories of Time Travellin’ Kai

- Who should have a little Argentine tango as a treat?

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Halloween! And what a heady bouquet of nonsense we have prepared for you. Ellie is joined by AJ, Elliot and Meg to debrief the group after a particularly disturbing set of pro dances. Tag Yourselves, I’m Sexy Saruman

Big questions involve:

- The exact mechanics of Time Travellin’ Kai

- A strongly worded legal statement

- Who is this year’s Destroyer?

- Rhys, take the afternoon off

- Danny Dyer reaction jpegs

- Beethoven’s initial, radical plans for Moonlight Sonata

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What a beautiful night in the Strictly ballroom! Ellie is your host and is joined by AJ, Ann, Elliot, Meg and Vikki to wax lyrical about the RETURN OF BALLROOM.

This week’s big topics:

- Does Dan do Halloween?

- The failure modes of Strictly Sambas

- #BeMoreAljaz

- What music should you play your kids?

- General Oti love

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Ellie returns to somewhat loosely host a podcast and survey the post-Movie Week wreckage of our celebs dance dreams. She is joined by Meg, Elliot and Vikki to ask the big questions:

- Are fringed trousers performance enhancing?

- Who has ZERO percent chance of being booked for the tour?

- Ukrainian chart music: how good is it?

- Don’t get Ellie started on Lindsey Buckingham

Apologies for the sound issues throughout the episode - we’re aware of it and just can’t cut round it.

Fleetwood Mac’s Rock Family Trees: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYaE5qFpGQM&ab_channel=jh271055

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Movies Week! And there are still 14 of them and TOO MANY are doing routines that should be in musicals week. This week, due to what can only be described as Circumstances, Meg is your host and is joined by AJ, Elliot, Emily and Ann to do a series of movie-related puns and gesture vaguely at some dancing.

- The history of padding (we are always easy for breeches)

- Whomst is slithering through who’s mind?

- We’re supportive of Tilly being supported

- Still absolutely boggled by couples choice but: consider the yeeting

- Did you KNOW how McFly got their NAME?

- Shocking departures from orthodoxy with ref: that Paso doble

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