The Keep Dancing Podcast

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...

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...

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 If yo...

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 fina...

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 If you’d...

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. Ariadne recaps all the finest reality T...

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...

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 rea...

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 If you’d like to get in touch with us, email us at keepdancingpodcast@gmail.c...

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...

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’...

The difficult second week of Strictly sees a fave leaving too soon, and huge changes in the KDP WhatsApp group. Your host Ellie is joined by Milly and Elliot to pick over the pieces. The big questions: - Greg Wise: the public service broadcasting argument - Songs which are, unacceptably, 20 years old - Exactly why that foxtrot hit so different - The Romans’ thoughts on trousers Keep Dancing Pod su...

Only 15 dances into the new Strictly season and it is ALL KICKING OFF. Your host Ellie is joined by AJ, Milly, Elliot and Meg to review as much of it as we can in an hour. The big questions: - How are we securing our dance floor spectacle wearers? - Hairspray & fire safety: a discourse - Do not panic buy sequins, there is no sequin shortage - Peaty teaches us The Three P’s of Glutes - What do we d...

The Keep Dancing Podcast is back to bring you a moderately-informed run down of the 2021 cohort on Strictly Come Dancing. Your host Ellie is joined by AJ, Ann, Elliot and Meg to preview all the pairings. Who is already communicating joy, who reads Prima and who has a tragic allergy to buttons? If you’d like to enter our Every Strictly Result Ever tea towel competition, send us a dancing lady emoji...

Episode 10: The Show Must Go On Ellie is joined by Elliot, Meg, Vikki, AJ, Milly and Ann (plus special guests) to squeal inaudibly about the Strictly Grand Final. Topics include: - A tree topping angel or the queen that doesn’t sew? - The Strictly Final as a dance CV - A comparison to a piece of modern art - Brief diversion into the Lando Norris pitman - Hearteyes all round for Jamie - Fifteen min...

Ellie is joined by Elliot, Meg, Ann and AJ to review the Strictly Semi Final and look forward to one of the weirdest finals ever. Topics include: - Outdoor socially distant salsa parties - West Country accent lols - Appropriate songs to dedicate to your Nan - Is Countryfile the new One Show? - Things which could have been A Lot Worse - Problems with dancing to Black Sabbath - A little bit of advic...

Ellie is joined by Vikki, Meg, Emily and AJ to try and enjoy some musical theatre in trying circumstances. Topics include: - What is and is not a waste of license payers money - We’re all Team Filth, where it comes to rumbas - Maisie’s Pygmalion storyline is nearly complete - Worst case scenario Lloyd-Webber Argentine tangos? - General praise for Fun Karen Enter the Every Strictly Ever poster cont...

Episode 7: BTEC Flailing Ellie is joined by AJ and Emily (with interjections from a remote, delayed Elliot) to survey the post-Blackpool reset wreckage. Note: we lost some of the tracks of the recording, we’ve pieced the conversation back together as best we can! Elliot isn't even in the room at the time! Topics include: - What are we going to do about Couple’s Choice? - A place to jive that isn’t...

Episode 6: Dancing On The Edge Ellie is joined by Ann, AJ, Meg, Emily and Vikki to ponder a trip to an imaginary Blackpool. Topics include: - Is Bill subverting the paradigm? - Sad news about the Winner Track - ‘Likability’ and media sexism - A true Scotsman dances to… - Tasteful and appropriate AR! - I’m fairly sure we’re using ‘narrative’ to mean something else now Enter the Every Strictly Ever...

Episode 5: Sucker for a Pinstripe Ellie is joined by Ann, AJ, Meg and Emily to scream defiance in the face of Coronavirus. And review some dances? We ponder over: - Who is providing little more than rotary motion? - Are there any phone boxes near you? Have they got phones in or something else? - How JJ could play The Scottish Card - Creepy dolls vs creepy puppets - Johannes is an actual gentleman...

ITTC 1: It Takes (At Least) Two Cynics Amidst a coronavirus news storm, Ellie meets up with a team of experts to try and work out what Strictly 2020 actually *means*. On the panel are: Ariadne Griffin @ariadne_griffin https://ariadnereviews.com/ Rob Furber @entertainmentodds https://entertainmentodds.com/ Ewan Spence @ewan https://escinsight.com/

Episode 4: A Series of Really Cool TikToks Ellie is joined by Ann, Meg and Elliot at the movies (or is it Musical Week Part 1?) where weirdness reigned and nothing made vast amounts of sense. Topics tackled: - A lengthy diversion in general praise of drag kings - Are the AR graphics a treat or a punishment? - Is Luba Santa? - We get distracted and think about a totally different cha cha https://ww...

Ellie is joined by AJ, Emily and Elliot to talk about the second competitive week of Strictly. - Max Wanted can finally be his own, wholesome man - Elliot reacts live to the potential horrors of Movie Week - James Clerk Maxwell, the musical? - Sleeves and collars in ballroom wear: a conspiracy theory - A little bit of the theory of pedagogy as it relates to Anton’s partners - Complete meltdown ove...

Ellie is joined (even more remotely than usual) by AJ, Emily, Elliot and Meg to talk about the first competitive week of Strictly. We’ve had a bit of an epic technical fail so the format is a bit less interactive, but we’re still here to get judgey about the judging, praise our faves, declare our inexplicable grudges and work out who wore the Frock of the Week. Enter the contest by sending us a Da...

Ellie is joined by Anne, AJ, Emily, Elliott and Meg to cast their eye over our twelve brand pairs competing for the sanitised, socially-distant 2020 glitterball. Our predictions are historically entertainingly wrong, but we’re making them anyway. Also in this show: - Hug Curtains, how and why? - Has Men Behaving Badly aged well? No. - Please yeet responsibly - Who’s sharing a box of white toner? -...