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Claudia hosts a dance special, featuring leading choreographer Arlene Phillips, and premier dancers from the Northern Ballet; Hannah Bateman and Kenneth Tindall.

Claudia hosts a dance special, featuring leading choreographer Arlene Phillips in a special interview about her career. Arlene has become a household name on TV shows So You Think You Can Dance and Dance X; the show she created with Strictly Come Dancing judge Bruno Tonioli.

Plus, there's premier dancers from the Northern Ballet; Hannah Bateman and Kenneth Tindall. The Northern Ballet is performing Dangerous Liaisons in Leeds next month, then touring the UK with Swan Lake and The Nutcracker. Next February it has the world premiere of its brand new ballet Cleopatra - a ballet that's never been done before.

And Claudia talks to Liam Steel - one of Britain's leading practitioners of dance-based physical theatre. Liam has directed, choreographed and performed with companies such as Complicite and The Volcano Theatre Company, and for eight years he was a core member of the award-winning DV8 Physical Theatre. Last year Liam choreographed a live staging of Ben Hur at London's O2 Arena which featured 46 horses, 20 lorry loads of sand and 140 doves. Liam is currently the movement director for The Open Air Theatre production of Stephen Sondheim's Into The Woods which is being staged in London's Regents Park. Claudia will be finding out from Liam how he goes about taking a story and interpreting it through physical performance and what names everyone should be looking out for among the next generation of dancers.

Also, featuring the best of UK street dance, from the gymnastic prowess and jaw-dropping moves of young Britain's Got Talent winners Spelbound and Diversity via a 'crew' on their way to the World Street Dance Championships in Blackpool - we get to the bottom of why dance has become the winning formula for reality TV show viewers countrywide.

2 hours

Music Played

  • Chic

    Everybody Dance

    • The Last Days Of Disco (Film Soundtra.
    • Columbia.
  • Sarah Brightman & Hot Gossip

    I Lost My Heart To A Starship Trooper

    • Fantastic 70's (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.
  • Duran Duran

    Rio

    • Duran Duran - Greatest.
    • EMI.
  • From the CD 'Breakfast On The Morning Tram' on Blue Note records

    • Stacey Kent

      Samba Saravah

  • Barenaked Ladies and Erin McCarley

    Every Subway Car

    • All In Good Time.
  • Irene Cara

    Flashdance... What a Feeling

    • Flashdance.
    • Casablanca.
  • Seal

    Secret

    • (CD Single).
    • Reprise.
    • 1.
  • Bee Gees

    You Should Be Dancing

    • Bee Gees - Their Greatest Hits.
    • Polydor.
  • Athlete

    Black Swan Song

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 1.
  • Thea Gilmore

    You're the Radio

    • (CD Single).
    • Fullfill Records.
    • 1.
  • From the CD 'Into The Woods' on RCA

    • Original New York Cast

      I Know Things Now - Little Red Riding Hood

  • From the CD 'The Magic Flute' on EMI Classics

    • Berliner Philharmoniker

      Queen Of The Night Aria

  • Scott Walker

    Jackie

    • The Collection: 1967-1970.
    • Universal.

Broadcast

  • Fri 20 Aug 2010 22:00