Commissions
Greenlit: Dance Hall Days, BBC2
Jack, whose choreography credits include films Young Victoria, Vanity Fair and Bridget Jones, has a passion for social partner dancing. Jack believes a new generation are missing out on the social interaction the dance halls offered. Like thousands of other original dance hall patrons his parents met on the dance floor in the 1950s.
Now Jack’s hoping to start a revival of partner dancing and is taking over a once glamorous Dance Hall in Greater Manchester’s Bolton. The Palais de Danse, a venue that once hosted Come Dancing, was at the heart of Bolton’s social scene until it became a discotheque in the late 1970s. Jack will be tracking down some of the original patrons who last danced at the Palais in the late 1950s. To them the dance hall and what it stood for has been resigned to history but Jack wants them to help recreate the heyday. Jack hopes to throw open the doors to the Palais once more but a revival relies on a whole new generation of locals to learn the dance hall classics.
Can Jack get the people of Bolton to dance arm in arm and waltz, tango and jive once again? And if they get the moves will they stick to the dance hall etiquette of old, where women were asked to dance and booze was banned. Jack believes the act of dancing arm in arm beats a boozy night down the pub but will the Bolton lads n lasses agree?
Channel: BBC2
Producer: BBC
TX: 2016
Source: BBC press release
Discussion
Comments are disallowed for this post.
Comments are closed.