Strictly Come Dancing fans have said they're 'so bored' as they shared a mixed reaction to the song and dance choices for Musicals week. The razzle-dazzle of the stage will be coming to the Elstree studio ballroom when the BBC One dance contest returns on Saturday (December 2).
BBC Strictly Come Dancing: How Blackpool became the capital of ballroom dancing
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Blackpool Week is the highpoint of Strictly Come Dancing. Regarded as the 'spiritual home' of ballroom dancing in Britain, Blackpool's Tower Ballroom has been a fixture in the seaside town for nearly 120 years.
Apart from 2020 when Covid-19 pandemic struck, Strictly has held its annual Blackpool special in November for the past decade. Before contestants can even think about lifting the Glitterball trophy, their sole aim is to at least survive the course and make it to Blackpool Week without being eliminated from the competition.
So why is it so special that the contestants get to dance at Blackpool's Tower Ballroom? Well, it's all to do with the long and prestigious history of dance in the venue, as our sister title Lancs Live first reported.
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The ballroom first opened in 1894, but as a smaller pavilion with its stage on the south side of the room. In order to compete with the Winter Garden's Empress ballroom the site was then extended.
Commissioned by the Tower company, architect Frank Matcham designed a lavish and decadent space comprising of 30,602 blocks of mahogany, oak and walnut with the spectacular sprung dance floor designed to absorb shock to enhance performance and reduce injuries.
Thought to be one of Matcham's most important surviving works, the ballroom - with its magnificent chandeliers, balconies and ornate ceiling - has come to be a landmark in British seaside architecture. Above the ballroom stage is a banner reading “Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear”, a quote from a sonnet by Shakespeare – Venus and
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