The Keep Dancing Podcast

We have finalists! By default! Ellie is joined by Vikki, Elliot and Meg to review the eight semi final dances and look ahead to the smorgasbord of delights that will be the Grand Final. Also: - We struggle to name the 5th one of One Direction - Should you win Strictly if you can’t cha cha cha? - We super, super miss Danny Mac - Does Amy lift? - A dispute over the nature of am-dram - Strictly 2019...

Musicals Week! Everyone loves a musical, a lovely festive treat for the whole family on topics such as Victorian child abuse, grinding poverty, dying cats and weird vintage racist tropes. With songs! Ellie is joined by Anne, Emily, Meg and Vikki to gaze into the middle distance and sigh. Flights of fancy include: - Heaps of praise for Drag Craig - The FA Cup Draw of Dance Fusion - Further footwear...

The post Blackpool reset hits hard! We’re less grumpy than Craig but that’s not saying much. Ellie is joined by Vikki, Anne and Emily to review a worryingly short show. - Bruno’s routine described as ‘mind-searing’, ‘indelible’ and ‘a little bit cheap’ - Do Not Mention The Samba Curse - ~Live Audio Dance Demonstrations!~ - Emily reports back from the Cannon Hall Regency Ball - Does Karim need to b...

S4E10 - I’ll Give You My Hairpiece! It’s been Blackpool! Ellie is joined by Meg and Elliot to battle multiple health & safety failures to bring you tales of hoists, big rooms and sprung floors. We’ve also renamed the Extra Dancers as the ‘Top Up Troupe’, just so you know. - What are the world’s largest plateaus? Is one of them Chris’s Strictly Journey? - Introducing DISCOFOX! - The pro dancers are...

An episode delayed, but well worth it. A very tired Ellie is joined by Meg, Elliott and Anne to talk over the dramatic week before Blackpool, where everyone suddenly gets serious. We recorded on Monday night, but still managed to accurately preview a few of the Blackpool dances because the producers aren’t in any way predictable. - Alex and Neil, reunited

S4E8 - There Are No Rules We’re just getting on with it. Ellie is joined by Meg, Vikki and Emily to get one precious week closer to Blackpool. - References that are too old for Karim Zeloual to understand - A bit of detail about how your Strictly Sausage gets made - Aljaz is a precious cinnamon roll - Kelvin is shedding the fridge - A gasp-inducing suggestion about Blackpool - Whose pasty flesh ru...

S4E7 - Fuming! It’s not so much a podcast as a live group therapy session, as we work through a whole load of feelings about the absolutely cursed Halloween episode of Strictly. Ellie is joined by Meg, Anne, Vikki and Emily (eventually) to angry cry about the arbitrarily cruel nature of structured reality formats. Topics also covered: - How does Emma solve her chemistry problem (other than the obv...

After a brief moment of excitement caused by a Eurovision song on the results show, Ellie is joined by Elliot, Anne and Meg to ask the tough questions. - Is Kelvin more of a leather jacket man than a denim jacket man? - Who is being manoeuvred over the glittery trap door? - If I’ve licked it, is it mine? - Is Paso the only Latin that Anton takes seriously? - Who’s been looking straight down the le...

The Big Twist occurs and Dev and Dianne get the ‘we’ll try to make it up to you at Christmas’ early shock eviction. Ellie is joined by Emily, Meg, Elliot and Vikki to try and make sense of it all. - What’s the DnD alignment of Strictly? - A general praising of showing training in training VTs. - Once more we don’t exactly recommend ‘Shimmer: A Strictly Come Dancing’ novel but we don’t not recommen...

It’s Movie Week and Ellie is joined by Elliot, Anne, Emily and Meg as we ladle on the convoluted cinema metaphors to review the dances and share our confusion as we try to work out just exactly who this very odd revue is aimed at. - We’re ready to declare a new podcast mascot… but who? - If the first lift is for character, what’s the guitar for? - Lots of wholesomeness and purity - Strictly’s Grea...

The first elimination week provides dubious thrills. Join Ellie, Elliot, Meg and Vikki to review this week’s dances, skilfully avoid libel and get deep about the psychology of reality TV. While we struggle with Strictly’s difficult second album, we also get into the following: - What aspects of popular culture is Elliot too young for? - What totally inappropriate cult films should Strictly attack...

The gang convenes to discuss the first 15 dance megashow of the Strictly 2019 season! Ellie, Emily, Elliot, Meg and Vikki are here and they’re making SO. MUCH. CONTENT. We’re very sorry about the audio quality in the first part of the podcast - it’s to do with a cable and it won’t happen again. If you want to go straight to the buzz-free bit, we sort our selves out at 10:37 into the pod. - Who is...

Ellie is joined by Emily and Elliot as we take a look at the State of the Mirrorball at the start of the 2019 Series of Strictly Come Dancing. It’s our fourth series, so we’re knee-deep in in-jokes but we want you in on it too. - Births, couplings, uncouplings and new jobs - Frank assessments of the runners and riders in 2019 - Aljaz is definitely a Hufflepuff, but is Anton a gentleman? - What’s M...

Immediately after the Grand Final, Ellie, Elliot and Meg got together to record some hot takes and immediate reactions to a spectacular Strictly Grand Final. Emily and Anne supply some slightly more…sensible contributions. Thank you to everyone who has listened, chatted and shared this series with us. We’ve loved having you with us on this sparkly rollercoaster journey.

We're getting ready for the Grand Final and chatting with Dave Thorp, who runs the Strictly Spoiler website. We talk about his adventures running an important fan resource, how he's enjoyed the Class of 2018 and take a look at our finalists chances of victory.

Another batch of contextualised grousing from the podcast gang. Ellie is joined by Elliot, Emily and Meg to chew over the semi-final results. Also featuring: - KDP Investigates: Stacey Dooley’s hobbies - Alternating between different pronunciations of Argentine tango - An absolutely astonishing google search - The concept of 3 out of 4 couples lining up for the final in full body paint - Should Co...

Musicals week allows us to feel the full range of emotions: from excitement to disgust, from joy to fear. Join us on a journey into the heart of staginess as we try to work out who is the biggest ham of all. Ellie is joined by Emily, Anne and Meg to put on the old razzle dazzle. - New feature: Johannes Appreciation Corner - What kinds of puppets bother Ellie? - A heartfelt goodbye to Charles, who...

The post Blackpool lull descends into chaos with a lumpy, partial score reset, troubling hair and the regulation shock dance off. Elliot, Emily, Vikki and Anne join Ellie to pick the delicious dance cherries out of the messy trifle. Also in this episode: - Did we get the largest ever shout out? - LED colour selection chat - Huge appreciation for the props folks - Strident demands for male rumbas i...

An Erotic Chicken Dance In A Winnebago We’ve got through another Blackpool week and all the plot elements are starting to slot into place, as is Craig’s 10 paddle. We’ve also definitely had our wow moment. Finally. - How tickled were our Eurovision glands? - We realise that AJ has a huge online fandom and that we probably ought never to tangle with them - An extended extemporisation on the subject...

At the crucial Blackpool phase of this Strictly series, new media storytelling expert Ewan Spence returns to try to make sense of the meta-narrative. Has the narrative collapsed or just fragmented? Is the Destroyer inevitable? Is Strictly more like sport or more like entertainment? What difference does that make? Plus, we answer some of your questions, or at least dodge them in interesting ways.

Everyone wants to go to Blackpool! This series of Strictly continues to be absolutely all over the place. Nothing is certain, everything is topsy-turvy. The only thing that remains constant and reliable is that we’re annoyed by people dancing in inappropriate shoes. This episode also includes: - A real talk serious moment about tabloid racism and diva stereotypes - We reveal the statistically dead...

The Converse Curse Gets Worse We thought we’d seen the last of them, but they won’t go away. Inappropriate footwear is haunting the Strictly Ballroom! This episode also contains: - A conspiracy theory about Avril Lavigne? - All unnecessary props are now ‘of Doom’. Gazebo of Doom, Cube of Doom, Cafe table of Doom - A request to leak the Dress Run footage of Danny’s Quickstep. - Is there too much fa...

The podcast gang review the Halloween episode of our favourite musical soap opera with some nice frocks in it. Be very afraid. This episode also contains: - A canon-compatible Doctor Who combat tango! - The podcasters who don’t have children find out about The Poo Song. - We are pledging to join in with #shakeitwithshirley because she is the Content Queen - Multiple interludes of despondent rage -...

With the scoring set to ‘RANDOM’ and the Couple’s Choice adding an extra level of confusing subjectivity to the proceedings, we find ourselves bereft as Vick falls foul of Shirley’s Serious Glasses of Doom. Also in this episode: - There are now spies in Graeme’s house - Is being weird and yelling JUICY NUGGETS a character? Yes, apparently - How much camp? Keep spooning it on. Keep going. Line up t...

It’s an absolutely normal week for our favourite reality dance show! Do not think about The Event! In this weekend’s episode: - The first rumba of the series leads us to ask ‘What’s the worst possible song for a rumba?’ - A potpourri of laundrette anecdotes in lieu of a review of Charles’ disco salsa - We’re replacing 10 More Minutes of Bum Chat with 20 Minutes of Hubris - Real talk advice on what...