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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. [1]
The British Sequence Championships are ballroom dancing championships for adults and children held annually in Blackpool, England. The championships for adults take place as part of the Blackpool Sequence Dance Festival and have been running since 1949. [1] They are held in the Empress Ballroom at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool.
As the BBC’s dance competition returns to the Tower Ballroom, Isobel Lewis explores the town’s dance history, and how ‘Blackpool Week’ became a ‘Strictly’ institution
Since 2007 the competitions have been hosted at the Winter Gardens, Blackpool. The 2024 competition saw 597 couples compete, [3] which is nearly back to pre-pandemic levels, as the 2020 competition saw 678 couples compete. [4] As of 2024 the US has a similarly strong student scene, culminating in various tournament's across the country.
Rippon, 79, who made history as the show’s oldest participant when the 2023 line-up was first announced, will join her fellow contestants in Blackpool for this week’s episodes of the BBC One show.
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.
Here are all the songs and dance routines to expect when Strictly returns to Blackpool on Saturday 18 November
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 ...