The Keep Dancing Podcast

https://notaphase.org/ No theme, no slogans, no logos, but plenty of hot takes. AJ sits in as host and is joined by Ewan, Elliot, Asha and Jo to take it apart. Also discussed: - Shout out to Gnomeo & Juliet - Shout out to the Costco massive - https://www.who.int/campaigns/world-mental-health-day - The Laughing Gnome https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SQdBxVjZx4 - Bob the Builder covered Mambo Number...

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

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 -...

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...

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...

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.a...

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...

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.co...

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 - SA...

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://herita...

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:/...

AJ sits in and is joined by Ariadne and Elliot in an industrial complex on the M60 to pick apart the latest episode of the UK’s favourite fabric-based light entertainment show! Featuring: - Summer matcha shaming - The mortifying ordeal of Lewis being perceived - Sam’s Mrs Overall tribute - The inherent eroticism of water - Our designated fave cishet man for the series - The Crisp Sideboard Show li...

The Haberdashery has been restocked! Ellie is joined by AJ, Asha and Elliott to chat topstitching, aprons and our ideal summer days. Also discussed: - The Year of the Soft Reboot! - In defence of the ergonomic apple picking bag, sorta - Freehand embroidery explained (not well) - Light menswear conspiracy theorising - Poo bag or poo bag bag? - Sewing meme to fast fashion pipeline - Chaos Suzy forev...

There’s been a lot of Events in the Strictly Universe and I guess we ought to podcast about it? It’s the second year of our Casting Predictions game, which we tried to get in before it was rendered entirely moot. Topics include: - Expressive noises - The Eastender is selected - Heads & Tails https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRY4otrYCJI - Are Icedancers Ringers? - Hot Mic Risk Factors - Naming Areas...

Ellie, Asha and AJ get together to enjoy some festive specials of Strictly and Sewing Bee. None of it matters and there’s an extended trifle metaphor for you to enjoy. Also discussed: - A Paul Chuckle update - All the news that’s fit to repeat - Sewing Bee is Strictly adjacent and we love it - There’s so much podcast overlap this Christmas - Cheese - Make things! - The Lemmy version of Run Run Rud...

It’s the Grand Finale, time to review the winners and the people who won without winning. Ellie is joined by a bumper crop of pod friends - AJ, Asha, Ewan, Elliot, Jo and Mark. Do *you* remember Icons Week? Also discussed: - Amber’s LinkedIn profile - A totally out of context DWTS Italy update - We bloody love Alexis and her core muscles - Masculinities in Strictly - Femininities in Strictly - Rel...

It's semi-final week, and it's time for our celebrities to bring two dances to the dancefloor to gather enough points to get to next week's grand final. AJ has baton to conduct Asha, Elliot and Ewan as the music plays and a ticket to the show dance is within reach. Also discussed - Sexy toilet lady covers. - Double bubble Bublé trouble. - Theatre person or TV person. - One for Carlos, one for me....

The first real crying pod of the series as we lose the last of our ‘nailed on finalists’ (we were wrong, we’re always wrong) and we’re not ok. But can we make sense of why it all went down like that? Ellie is joined by Asha, Vikki, Ewan and Jo to find out. Also discussed: - We’re stanning Alexis the Fantom? - A toddler playing snooker - Voter katamari calculations - Televote suppression tactic che...

The instant dance crashes through the podcast and takes out a definitely not injured (right?) fave. Ellie is joined by Milly, Elliot, Mark and a special guest mini-lecture on variety from Ewan. Elliot’s audio is better than last time he was on, but please forgive the odd bit of hiss. Also discussed: - That time when JoJo saved a cat - George’s YouTube views -

Keep Dancing Podcast S10 E10: Paul Chuckle Up Front We bid farewell to game-changing avatar of light entertainment, La Voix. Ellie is joined by Asha, AJ, and Ewan to comment on the Blackpool rock of it all. Also discussed: - Our hand in production - What is there even to say about a really good dance? - Who can’t drive a Lexus? - A modest proposal re: Strictly 2026 - Another count of the total peo...

Keep Dancing Podcast S10 E9: Deep In The Spreadsheets Blackpool Qualification week was lovely, but it’s been rapidly overtaken by events. DIVA DOWN! PRAYER CIRCLE ROUND LA VOIX! Ellie is joined by a super size panel of AJ, Milly, Asha, Mark, Vikki and Jo to cast the runes. - Crowning the bottom two diva of all divas - Graph chat - An allegation about axe murderers in the Home Counties - Jay & Dann...

KDP S10 E8: Not One Of The Big Weeks by The Keep Dancing Podcast

Ellie has gone missing! Elliot hosts the annual scream into the void about the nature of Strictly Halloween, with Asha, Milly and Ewan for moral support. Also discussed: - The lighting (cursed) - Some of the arrangements (cursed) - La Voix wrestling control of the narrative - La Voix wrestling control of the whole show tbh - Kaz Carney being very gender in a flat cap - What the future could have l...

Keep Dancing Podcast S10 E6: If Dolly Can Do It Icons Week continues to make us go HMM. Ellie is joined by Elliot, AJ, Ewan and Asha to react to the news that Tessbot is going to version 2.0 at the end of the series and Claud is going to be spending more time in fingerless gloves. Also discussed: - Johnny Cash in thigh high leather boots - Mind-blowing Bob Mackie fact source https://www.patreon.co...

Once more we record and breaking news happens! We all hope Stefan’s calf gets better quickly and that he has a lovely dance with Gail. In other news, we had an unthemed week… but nobody told La Voix. Ellie is joined by Ewan, Elliot, Mark, Milly and Asha to pick holes in it all. Also discussed: - A bit of proper gender studies stuff about the Pygmalion narratives - Milly’s annual reminder to watch...