Strictly Come Dancing live tour begins with Rose Ayling Ellis topping the leaderboard again!

For those who enjoyed the Strictly Come Dancing series last year, you’ll be glad to know that Strictly is now on tour and deaf star Rose Ayling-Ellis is one of the performers!

The tour kicked off last week in Birmingham and will be travelling across the country stopping at Leeds, Newcastle, Manchester, Sheffield and London to name but a few.

The tour is actually making history by being the UK’s first arena touring show that will have a British Sign Language intepreter at every single one of the 33 performances.

Throughout the live show the BSL interpreter will be present and their image projected onto two large screens either side of the stage. This is to ensure BSL users sitting anywhere in the arena can access whats being said in their own language.

Deaf people attending can enjoy seeing Rose and Giovanni perform their sensual Argentine Tango up close and witness the famous ‘silent sequence’ couples choice routine too.

Kelly Parker, a deaf student from Wolverhampton attended the Birmingham show this weekend and sent this feedback to me,

“I had such a brilliant time watching Strictly live!
I am a new fan of the show to be honest as I was never bothered about watching Strictly until the last one when Rose was on it. It was amazing to see her in person and she and Giovanni waved to me too!

The music was really loud in the arena so I could feel the beats pounding which I enjoyed and everyone was clapping and getting involved. It was really fun.

I didn’t see Claudia or Tess because on the live tour Janette Manrara (the host of It Takes Two) presents it and Bruno is also back as one of the judges. Motsi wasn’t there though but it was good to see Janette hosting and dancing too!

We saw dances by Tom and Amy and my other favourites John and Johannes too. Rose and Giovanni won with the highest scores during the live show – and I am not surprised, they were brilliant and the couples choice dance made me cry!

Rose is really amazing as a dancer, always smiling and waving at the audience. I felt really proud. I have never seen so much positivity around deafness before.

It was really good having an interpreter all the way through the show, I got all of the jokes and felt really included. It was also good that I could book any of the shows and know that there would be an interpreter, so me and my Mum could go to any one of the shows. I hope more shows decide to have an interpreter at each performance in the future so I can go and enjoy more live shows.”

 

For more information on the Strictly Come Dancing live tour go to, https://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/strictly-come-dancing-tickets/artist/35783

Photo credit Dave J Hogan