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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.
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 ...
Strictly Come Dancing returned to Blackpool for the 2010 [27] and 2011 series. [28] ... A new system called the Dance-off, which takes place in the results show, was ...
Here are all the songs and dance routines to expect when Strictly returns to Blackpool on Saturday 18 November
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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]
In August 2022, the BBC confirmed that the show would return to the Blackpool Tower Ballroom for the first time since the seventeenth series. [6] [7] It was also announced that there would be a special themed week to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the BBC, with the couples dancing to "a theme tune from an iconic BBC programme or in tribute to one of the BBC's most loved services".
The couples dance each week in a live show. The judges score each performance out of ten. The couples are then ranked according to the judges' scores and given points according to their rank, with the lowest scored couple receiving one point, and the highest scored couple receiving the most points (the maximum number of points available depends on the number of couples remaining in the ...