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The 8-day Blackpool Dance Festival is the world's first and most famous annual ballroom dance competition of international significance, held in the Empress Ballroom at the Winter Gardens, Blackpool, England, since 1920. It is also the largest ballroom competition: in 2013, 2953 couples from 60 countries took part in the festival.
Strictly Come Dancing was back on our screens on Saturday (11 November), with one couple soaring to great heights while another sunk to the bottom ahead of next weekend’s Blackpool bonanza.
Spoiler alert! The BBC has released what the remaining Strictly Come Dancing couples will be dancing to at the Tower Ballroom in Blackpool.. Week 9 will see an intense competition take place as ...
Strictly Come Dancing returned for its twenty-first series with a launch show on 16 September 2023 on BBC One, with live shows beginning on 23 September. [1] [2] Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman returned as hosts, while Janette Manrara returned to host Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two, alongside Fleur East, who was announced as the new co-host after Rylan Clark's departure in April 2023.
It also hosts numerous dance competitions, such as the British Sequence Championships and the Blackpool Dance Festival, an annual ballroom dance competition, since its inception in 1920. [8] On 1 March 1974, the ballroom was the venue for the opening concert of Queen's first ever headlining tour of the UK. [9] [10] [11]
Angela Rippon heads to Blackpool with partner Kai Widdrington having surprised herself by reaching this far
The British Sequence Championships for children takes place as part of the Blackpool Junior Dance Festival, running since 1947. [8] They start on Easter Monday each year and run for a week. Until 2010, when increasing numbers prompted a move to the Empress Ballroom, they had been held at the Tower Ballroom in Blackpool Tower. The events ...
Rippon, 79, became the show’s oldest participant when this year’s lineup was revealed Strictly fans say Angela Rippon’s Blackpool fate ‘is decided’ as dance list revealed Skip to main ...