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On Monday, 5th December at 10pm our ‘Swinging at the Savoy’ documentary launches BBC Radio 2’s special Dance season.
Running throughout December the season of shows celebrates ‘Dance’ in all its forms and includes three Folded Wing programmes.
As well as ‘Swinging at the Savoy’, in which Len Goodman celebrates swing dance, from the Savoy Ballroom in 1930s Harlem to its modern day renaissance, the season also includes episode 6 of our ‘Gloria Estefan’s Latin Beat’ series on Thursday, 8th December at 11pm. In this episode, Gloria puts on her dancing shoes and explores how the rhythm and movement of the dancefloor has been central the to the success of Latin music.
Finally, on Monday 19th December at 10pm, you can catch our documentary ‘Super Troupers’, in which Arlene Phillips takes a look back at the rise and fall of the television dance troupes: the Beat Girls, Go Jos, Ruby Flipper, Legs and Co, Hot Gossip and the most famous of them all - Pan's People.
BBC Radio 2’s Dance season also includes documentaries on stars like Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rodgers, as well as programmes on Morris Dancing, Riverdance and the American Dance Marathons of the 1930s.
For ‘Gloria Estefan’s Latin Beat’ episodes 1-3 click here >
