The Keep Dancing Podcast

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? If you’d like to get in touch with us, email us at keepdancingpodcast@gmail.com or follow us on...

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...

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...

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 desc...

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...

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 wro...

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 th...

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

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 If you’d like to get in touch with us, email us at keepda...

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? For the Every Strictly Result Ever tea towels,...

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 For the Every Strictly Result Ever tea towels, look here! https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/837928883/every-strictly-result-ever-tea-towel If you’d l...

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. If you’d like to get in touch with us, email us at keepdancingpodcast@gmail.com or follow us on twitter and instagram at @keepdancingpod. Keep Dancing Pod supports th...

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...