Dance Factory

This article is about BBC children's television program. For the PS2 video game, see Dance Factory (game).

Dance Factory
Dance Factory title card
Genre	Children's Competition
Directed by	Samantha Beddoes Rob Hyde
Presented by	Reggie Yates Nigel Clarke Camilla Dallerup
Theme music composer	D Factor
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
Production
Executive producer(s)	Sue Morgan
Producer(s)	Pete Davies
Editor(s)	Nial Brown Chris Toft
Camera setup	Nigel Bradley Tom Hayward
Running time	25 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	CBBC
Original run	26 March 2005 – 21 May 2005
External links
[www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc Website]

Dance Factory was a children's television show which ran for nine weeks from March to May 2005 at 10.30am on BBC One. It was simulcast on the CBBC Channel. It was hosted by Reggie Yates, better known as the host of Top of the Pops, with co-presenters Camilla Dallerup and Nigel Clarke. Camilla paired with David Dickinson and Roger Black in the BBC series, Strictly Come Dancing, while Nigel was better known as a host from Nickelodeon and professional dancer with the Stomp company.

The aim of the show was to pair six non-dancers with experts their own age in Bhangra, Irish dancing, pop, tap dancing, hip hop and musical theatre styles. The contestants were drawn from all over the UK, and auditions were held in London, Manchester, Birmingham, Cardiff, Glasgow and Belfast.

The next phase of the show saw the experts teaching their new partners how to dance, and also saw them meeting some showbiz stars to pick up tips along the way. These included Michael Flatley, of Riverdance fame; Rio Ferdinand, the England and Manchester United star; Denise Lewis, Olympic gold medallist (also seen in Strictly Come Dancing) and the cast of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in London's West End.

After six weeks of intense training and rehearsal, the contestants were thrust into live semi-finals, each of which saw one pair eliminated from the competition by CBBC viewers. The musical theatre pair of Stacey and Josh were eliminated first, followed by Teejay and Tom, the Bhangra pair, the week after.

In a specially-extended final, the Irish dancing pair of Claire and Gavin went away with the title of Dance Factory Champions and won a dream trip to New York. The runners up were Naoimh and her partner, dancing tap.

External links

• Dance Factory at the Internet Movie Database
• Dance Factory at TV.com