Aliona & Jay - Jive & Rumba
Frankie & Kevin - Quickstep & Tango
Ainsley & Natalie - Tango & Salsa
Janette & Jake - Salsa & Samba
Gleb & Anita - Paso & American Smooth Viennese Waltz ("Ghost")
Georgia & giovanni - Charleston & Vienese Waltz

I will get back to you on Aljaz and Helen.

Hmmm jake and janette both doing two party Latins I thought they would have done at least one ballroom ??

Its the Tour. They do what they like. Why shouldn't they do the two dances he is most famous for. Hardly in series pimping is it?

Aliona and Jay are doing 2 latins...........

Frankie and Kevin are doing 2 ballrooms.............

have to admit Im not overly excited about a salsa AND a samba - bit samey for me - esp where Janette is concerned!

From the picture of the dresses that the tour twitter tweeted it looks like Helen might be doing her Viennese waltz as well or they may be just using those dresses for the programme

Great choices so far would have liked to see team gg do an argentine tango as it was the dance Georgia said she wanted to do and it would be like Natalie and Artem doing a jive on tour when they missed it due to illness

Can anyone please tell me what dances Helen and Aljaz are doing. I think it'll be v waltz, salsa or Cha Cha

tbh Im surprised that G&G are doing their charleston AGAIN

seen it enough times now - would prefer them to do something else if I am honest!

At least a QS/tango and a Rumba/jive have different feels. But a samba and salsa are very samey, not technically but feel wise.

As a YouTube numbers girl, I have checked the dances popularity of each couple. Latin dances do much better on YouTube than ballroom and also the week in which they were performed matters obviously.

I didn't do Ainsley as he only did 5 dances, but the most popular was the Salsa.

Anita, paso is her 2nd most popular (after the samba) and the AS is eighth most popular.

Frankie: tango is her most popular dance on YouTube, her QS is her 11th most popular.

Georgia Charlestons is her second most popular (after her w1 jive, and 8th most popular dance considering all celebs dances accords the two series) and her VW is her 13th (considerations it was w12 and a ballroom).

Jake salsa is his most popular (and second overall over the two last series) and his samba is his second (7th overall).

Jay's jive is obviously his most popular and his rumba is his 6th most popular.

when is the tour starting

looks like there will be backing dancers

https://twitter.com/JasmineTakacs/st...68649012514816

Why would anyone be surprised that someone is doing by far their most popular dance again? That's how the tour normally works and as far as I remember most of the overall tour winners previously reprised a dance they'd already done twice before.

Yes, last year both finalists, Caroline and Simon, did dances they reprised in the final.

Here is the update on Aljaz and Helen, They will be performing a tango and a Viennese waltz.

Probably for Anita's paso would have been surprised if they didn't have backing dancers because that's what the majority of the routine was.

Thanks for the info, backstageone

I sort of expected Gleb's wife Elena to be a backing dancer, but it looks like she's on a tv show in Russia right now, from her Twitter account pictures.

Georgia & Giovanni will open the show and Jay and Aliona will close it with the jive.

Georgia has said, on Saturday Kitchen, that she is doing her Charleston and American Smooth.

Hi Backstageone, how do you find out all this information?!
I wouldn't be surprised for Jay's jive to close it though!

Also would've expected GG to do their American smooth vw it's more showy for the tour

Knew Jake would be doing his salsa but salsa and samba are both quite samey 😕

I kind of get why jake would be doing two party Latins his ballroom wasn't anything to look back on.. So yeh I get it now ☺️

Yeah true! I can't remember any of his ballroom but for some reason can remember instantly his samba was to the Macarena and of course we all remember his salsa

Gleb dropped Natalie in rehearsals, she may have to take two weeks off. Hoping it is not too serious.

You can always use his dances to nip to the loo ! They'll both be terrible. I think Jake and Ainsley will be the bottom of the leaderboard on every date. The others will be the ones to watch. Jay will win Nottingham, and Georgia will win Manchester, the rest will be anyone's guess.

Personally I'm really looking forward to watching Jake's dances - the party vibe and the fact that he seems to really love dancing will be a pleasure to see and he will bring a great atmosphere to the arenas. I'm sure he won't dance both dances back to back, so although they are samey, they will be a good contrast to some of the ballroom choices.

These are two of the dances that I am the most excited about