Tall Paul slipped up and forgot.

So here goes: a poll open for 5 days only: nominate your greatest dancer of all time from the list.

Compliments of the season to all.

Strictly Kara Tointon but overall has to be Darcey Bussell rubbish judge but sublime dancer.

SALOME ALL THE WAY.

No Anne Boleyn on the list

Her head placement was no good towards the end.

Non of the above.

Should clearly be Fred Astaire

A-MA-ZING!

I'm also going with Salome. She certainly rather more than a 10 from her judge.

Although like Monaogg I'm wondering what happened to Fred Astaire (and Gene Kelly) although pleased to see Fiona making an appearance.

Rather guiltily I feel I should have voted for Nureyev. (Nijinsky being a bit before my time!)

Fred Astaire, Pamela Stephenson, Chris Hollins, Martha Graham, Chris Parker et al will be contesting the next round.


Ola also likes Salome's costume.

... I would have loved to have seen Craigs reaction to the polydactyl finger!
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I beg to differ. Ginger Rogers did everything as well as Fred .... but backwards !

and in high heels

ROFL

With Pinocchio, I hope, or are wooden puppets ineligible (they'e allowed on strictly now and then)?

Does that mean 10 paddle for Fred,
minus 10 for Ginger?

Jill Halfpenny. No one jives like she does!

i had to go with jill , her and kara are at the same level but i know people would be voting for kara because she is fresher in the mind...

So sorry, voters. Infected with BBC'itis, I have forgotten to clarify the rules.

At midnight on Christmas Day this Round 1 poll will close, and the lowest-polling 12 dancers will sadly be leaving the competition. Those coming back will join the 12 dancers listed below, in the Final Round, with voting starting again from scratch, continuing for 6 days. Feel free to ramp your candidate with a posting.

The Grand Final will take place at midnight on New Years Eve. As Big Ben chimes the poll will close to cheers, possibly to a standing ovation, and the winner of the DS Ball the Greatest Dancer of All Time will be announced. Amidst many kisses and more tears this trophy will be sent to the winner, through a medium if necessary.

Gypsy Rose Lee
Michael Jackson
Pamela Stephenson
Fred Astaire
Madonna
Matthew Cutler
Ginger Rogers
John Sergeant
Martha Graham
Gene Kelly
Anna Pavlova
Michael Flatley

Remember to save your candidate,
vote in the First Round ,
vote in the Final from Christmas Day.

Keeeeep dancing.

Brilliant ,!!!

Yes .. how come neither of these two were on the list?..... they are definately my all time favourites, i used to watch all their films on tv when i was growing up, i have never seen an American smooth to match theirs!....

Ah.... just seen you have added them on a later thread op, so in the mean time i will go with!............Kara.......................

None of these - Fred Astaire. Nijinski was doing well but fell at the sixth fence.

Gypsy Rose Lee ----- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGnfgJYbBkQ

Michael Jackson ----- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9OU-7kav_w

Pamela Stephenson -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vukw339ofyA

Fred Astaire ---------- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFI0r...eature=related

Madonna -------------- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_POuZN1YA4&feature=fvsr

Matthew Cutler ------ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rQHBmsXg-0

Ginger Rogers ------- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsKC5L5tpxE

John Sergeant -------- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv0e7esK8yM

Martha Graham ------ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozu2M...4665E&index=12

Gene Kelly ----------- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YWBOfsXsDA

Anna Pavlova -------- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev2gePFcRyM&feature=fvsr

Michael Flatley ------ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev2gePFcRyM&feature=fvsr

If anyone knows of good representative clips, do share them with us.

Now where did I put that video of The Dance of Seven Veils Craig gave a 10 to.

I have to follow the time honoured tradition on Digital Spy and suggest that there might be some judging bias here leading to an overmarking of some of the candidates? I notice that the 'nice' personalities such as Kara and Darcey are doing well in the poll whereas the more controversial personalities of Salome and Mata Hari are trailing behind suggesting that people have unfairly taken against them. That and the fact that Salome never had the opportunity to show her more 'wacky' side by performing the Charleston.

As someone who does jazz and modern, I think you've missed out important people in the history of those dance forms:


Mattox and Fosse for jazz and Laban for modern (although he was a choreographer)

Apologies for all the fantastic dancers missed out. Unfortunately the BBC dance floor can accommodate at most 17. All complaints please send to BBC website.

Ann Widdicombe ---- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duQPKOEIycE

Salome ---------------- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTGJVeTy43k&feature=fvw

Mata Hari ------------ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ5IKr0fyxw&feature=fvw

Alesha Dixon -------- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB4MXF_So5w

Cleopatra ------------- http://www.youtube.com/results?searc...a+dancing&aq=f

Jill Halfpenny ------- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVxxG2AVOCQ

Fiona Phillips ------- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMtmeVMKRNQ

Vaslav Nijinski ----- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRlWU...eature=related

Isadora Duncan ----- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKtQWU2ifOs

Kate Garraway ------ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka34ie-IL88

Rudolph Nureyev --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oc_GvdFen0

Kara Tointon -------- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cADiYeGJe7s

Darcey Bussell ------ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx9ad-TgKoA

Aliona Vilani ------- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkYFEuNFNWM

Margot Fonteyn ---- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff9wotb7pyM

Anton at the Back - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGK68O5Ro9Y

Antonio Gades Y cristina Hoyos -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7joI6...eature=related
and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpG_w...eature=related
Joaquin Cortes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2ALh...4080C&index=12

And the The Dance of Seven Veils is it this one that you misplaced?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2zTy...7D756&index=32

The funniest thing is that Aida Gomez (Salome in the clip) is actually one of the judges in the Spanish version of Stricly. Weird!

As a side note, all those videos are excerps from movies by renowned film director Carlos Saura (who incidently is from the same are of Spain as myself). He loves flamenco and has done many movies featuring prominently.