Dancing Cheek to Cheek: An Intimate History of Dance
Dancing Cheek to Cheek: An Intimate History of Dance: Season 1

Air Date

November 17, 2014

Episodes

3 episodes

Dancing Cheek to Cheek: An Intimate History of Dance

Season 1

Episodes

1. The Devil's Work?

November 17, 2014
59 min

A look at how dancing went from being frowned upon as dangerous and debauched in the 17th century to being celebrated as an essential social skill in the 18th.

2. Revolution on the Dance Floor

November 24, 2014
59 min

How Britain's dance floors were revolutionised in the 19th century as the slow, stately dances of an earlier era were replaced with faster, freer ones.

3. The Shock of the New

December 1, 2014
59 min

Len Goodman and Lucy Worsley show how the first few decades of the 20th century saw the most rapid and revolutionary change in the history of British dance.