Tag Archives: ballroom

Strictly Come Dancing 2021, week 5

Posted on October 24, 2021 by mkmswain

Three celebrities score 10s in a high-standard show, and it’s a shock visit to the dance-off for Rhys Stephenson. Read my Telegraph talking points for the main show and results show

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Strictly Speaking: Week 4

Posted on October 18, 2021 by mkmswain

Ah, the theme week hangover. Saturday’s show was very much the bleary, old contact lenses stuck to eyelids, two Alka-Seltzers dissolved in ginger ale, nibbling at cold leftover pizza while moaning softly morning-after to Movie Week’s night of ecstatic clubbing. … Continue reading →

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Strictly Speaking: Week 3

Posted on October 11, 2021 by mkmswain

Ah, Strictly theme weeks: synonymous with high drama, rampant scoring inflation, and a heady mix of glamour and the dredges of a three-year-old’s dressing-up box. Read my full Dancing Times blog here

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Strictly Speaking: Week 2

Posted on October 4, 2021 by mkmswain

Welcome to the Thunderdome! Week 1 was all pats on the back for even finding your way into the studio; now, the real Strictly judging begins. Read my full Dancing Times blog here

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Strictly Come Dancing 2021, Week 2

Posted on October 4, 2021 by mkmswain

Tilly Ramsay cooks up a leaderboard-topping Charleston, and Nina Wadia is the first to leave the ballroom. Read my Telegraph talking points for the main show here and results show here

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Same-sex partnerships and lead swapping could revolutionise ballroom – and that is no bad thing

Posted on September 30, 2021 by mkmswain

When John Whaite and Johannes Radebe took to the Strictly floor last weekend, they made history as the first ever all-male couple. But their triumphant tango contained an added twist: they swapped the lead. Read my full Telegraph article here

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Strictly Speaking: Week 1

Posted on September 27, 2021 by mkmswain

We’re off! This opener had everything we love about Strictly: dance, drama and dance-drama; a bewildering costume lottery; Tess patronising people to within an inch of their lives; scoring that began sane and then descended into utter chaos; and, most important, … Continue reading →

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Strictly Speaking: Launch show

Posted on September 20, 2021 by mkmswain

Hurrah, we’re back! Hello, fellow Strictly watchers – I’m so glad that our Saturday nights are sparkly once more.  Read my full Dancing Times blog here

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Strictly Come Dancing is late to the party with same-sex couples: men have been dance partners for centuries

Posted on September 18, 2021 by mkmswain

This year’s sequin-splattered contest to win the coveted glitterball trophy will feature a Strictly debut, as the show introduces its first all-male pairing. Read my full The i Paper article here

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Audio memory and good vibrations: how Strictly’s first deaf dancer might take home the glitterball

Posted on September 15, 2021 by mkmswain

Deaf choreographer Mark Smith and deaf dancer Billy Read explain how Rose Ayling-Ellis will fare when she makes British TV history. Read my full Telegraph article here

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