
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.