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Got to Dance is a dance competition and reality show broadcast in the United Kingdom, Ireland, United States and India. Auditons for the show take place in specially built Dance Domes and are open to all dance acts of any age, style or size. Auditions for the first series were held in October 2009 in Edinburgh

Edinburgh

Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, the second largest city in Scotland, and the eighth most populous in the United Kingdom. The City of Edinburgh Council governs one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas. The council area includes urban Edinburgh and a rural area...

, Manchester

Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...

and London

London

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. The show airs on Sky1 also in HD

High-definition television

High-definition television is video that has resolution substantially higher than that of traditional television systems . HDTV has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of SD...

and is hosted by Davina McCall

Davina McCall

Davina McCall is an English television presenter and actress, most notable as the presenter of the UK version of Big Brother up until its move to Channel 5.- Early life :...

, with Ashley Banjo

Ashley Banjo

Ashley Banjo is an English street dancer and actor. He is the leader of the dance troupe Diversity, who won the third series of Britain's Got Talent...

, Kimberly Wyatt

Kimberly Wyatt

Kimberly Kaye Wyatt is an American showgirl, singer-songwriter, dancer, model, actress and choreographer. She is best known as a former member of the American pop/R&B girl group and dance ensemble, the Pussycat Dolls. She joined the Pussycat Dolls in 2003...

and Adam Garcia

Adam Garcia

Adam Garcia is an Australian actor and tap dancer of partial Colombian descent .-Career:...

currently serving as judges.

The winning act, 10 year old Akai

Akai Osei

Akai Milan Osei is a British street dancer. He won the TV show Got to Dance in 2010. It is reported that he was inspired by Michael Jackson, Diversity, Flawless and Chris Brown.Osei was born in Lambeth....

, won £100,000 prize money in series 1. CBS

CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...

also produced an American version of the show called Live to Dance
Live to Dance
Live to Dance was a United States television reality program and dance competition on the CBS network. Dancers from all over the country auditioned for Live to Dance in "specially constructed Dance Domes"...

. The 2nd Series of Got to Dance aired on Sundays from January 2, 2011 - February 27, 2011. The winners of that series, Chris and Wes, received £250,000 prize money.

A 3rd series will air in 2012 with auditions taking place in July & August 2011 in the Dance Domes at various cities around the UK & Ireland

Ireland

Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

. The prize money will again be £250,000 for the winning act. An Australian version of the show will air late 2011. The UK's 2nd series is currently airing on FOX8

FOX8

Fox8 is an Australian cable and satellite channel available on Foxtel, Austar and Optus Television's subscription platforms...

in Australia and on AXN

AXN

AXN is a Pay television, cable and satellite television channel owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, which was first launched on May 22, 1997. The network is now spread across several regions in the world, including Japan, Europe, other parts of Asia and Latin America...

in India.

Format

There are five stages to the competition:

Stage 1: Producers' auditions (these auditions decide who will perform in front of the judges, but they are not broadcast or acknowledged on the show)

Stage 2: Judges' auditions

Stage 3: Callbacks (some acts may have to perform again at this stage for a place in the semi-finals)

Stage 4: Live Semi-finals (each act performs in one semi-final, with only 2 advancing to the final)

Stage 5: Live Final

Ratings

The series began with a special "Warm Up" show that was broadcast on 20 December 2009. The episode was watched by 276,001 viewers, or 1.1% of the television audience.

The series fully began with a double bill of episodes on 3 January 2010. The first episode began with 927,000 viewers (3.9% of the television audience) while the second attracted more viewers, a total of 1.4m (4.3%). The final auditions episode attracted 817,000 whilst the 'Meet the Semi-Finalists' show received 737,000 viewers. The average (0.97m) is over double the slot average.

Series overview

Series	Year(s)	Time	Hosts	Judges
1	Winter 2010	January–February	Davina McCall Davina McCall Davina McCall is an English television presenter and actress, most notable as the presenter of the UK version of Big Brother up until its move to Channel 5.- Early life :... Matt J Bell Matt J Bell Matthew J "Matt" Bell is a Television presenter, writer and comedian best known for presenting The Hotel Inspector Unseen Matthew J "Matt" Bell is a Television presenter, writer and comedian best known for presenting The Hotel Inspector Unseen Matthew J "Matt" Bell is a Television presenter, writer... (Backstage)	Ashley Banjo Ashley Banjo Ashley Banjo is an English street dancer and actor. He is the leader of the dance troupe Diversity, who won the third series of Britain's Got Talent... , Adam Garcia Adam Garcia Adam Garcia is an Australian actor and tap dancer of partial Colombian descent .-Career:... and Kimberly Wyatt Kimberly Wyatt Kimberly Kaye Wyatt is an American showgirl, singer-songwriter, dancer, model, actress and choreographer. She is best known as a former member of the American pop/R&B girl group and dance ensemble, the Pussycat Dolls. She joined the Pussycat Dolls in 2003...
2	Winter 2011	January–February
3	Winter 2012	January–March		Ashley Banjo Ashley Banjo Ashley Banjo is an English street dancer and actor. He is the leader of the dance troupe Diversity, who won the third series of Britain's Got Talent... , Adam Garcia Adam Garcia Adam Garcia is an Australian actor and tap dancer of partial Colombian descent .-Career:... , Kimberly Wyatt Kimberly Wyatt Kimberly Kaye Wyatt is an American showgirl, singer-songwriter, dancer, model, actress and choreographer. She is best known as a former member of the American pop/R&B girl group and dance ensemble, the Pussycat Dolls. She joined the Pussycat Dolls in 2003... and Louie Spence Louie Spence Louie Spence is a dance expert, choreographer and television personality who is currently the artistic director at the London Pineapple Dance Studios...

Semi-finalists

	First Semi-final - Sunday 24 January 2010	Second Semi-final - Sunday 31 January 2010	Third Semi-final - Sunday 7 February 2010	Grand Final - Sunday 14 February 2010
Contestants	Emily, Martin Sierra, Parallel, Status, Jukebox Juniors, Bhangra Heads	Kane Ricca, DNA, Beyond Repair, Matthew Koon Matthew Koon Matthew Koon is an English stage actor and dancer. He is most noted for participating in the Sky One television series Got to Dance, in which he reached the final, finishing in 3rd place.-Career:... , MJ Latin, Raw Edge	Unity Youth, Dance Dynamix, Akai Osei Akai Osei Akai Milan Osei is a British street dancer. He won the TV show Got to Dance in 2010. It is reported that he was inspired by Michael Jackson, Diversity, Flawless and Chris Brown.Osei was born in Lambeth.... , Eclipse, The Box, Fancy Feet	Emily, Jukebox Juniors, Matthew Koon Matthew Koon Matthew Koon is an English stage actor and dancer. He is most noted for participating in the Sky One television series Got to Dance, in which he reached the final, finishing in 3rd place.-Career:... , MJ Latin, The Box, Akai Osei Akai Osei Akai Milan Osei is a British street dancer. He won the TV show Got to Dance in 2010. It is reported that he was inspired by Michael Jackson, Diversity, Flawless and Chris Brown.Osei was born in Lambeth....
Advanced to Final	Emily and Jukebox Juniors	Matthew Koon Matthew Koon Matthew Koon is an English stage actor and dancer. He is most noted for participating in the Sky One television series Got to Dance, in which he reached the final, finishing in 3rd place.-Career:... and MJ Latin	The Box and Akai Osei Akai Osei Akai Milan Osei is a British street dancer. He won the TV show Got to Dance in 2010. It is reported that he was inspired by Michael Jackson, Diversity, Flawless and Chris Brown.Osei was born in Lambeth....	Akai Osei Akai Osei Akai Milan Osei is a British street dancer. He won the TV show Got to Dance in 2010. It is reported that he was inspired by Michael Jackson, Diversity, Flawless and Chris Brown.Osei was born in Lambeth.... (Winner)

Live show chart summary

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Akai Osei

Matthew Koon

Matthew Koon is an English stage actor and dancer. He is most noted for participating in the Sky One television series Got to Dance, in which he reached the final, finishing in 3rd place.-Career:...

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|align="center" bgcolor="white"|Eclipse
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|bgcolor="tomato" |6th
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Final 2
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Final 1
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American version

CBS

announced on April 10, 2010 that there was going to be an American version of the series titled Live to Dance
Live to Dance
Live to Dance was a United States television reality program and dance competition on the CBS network. Dancers from all over the country auditioned for Live to Dance in "specially constructed Dance Domes"...

and was set to rival So You Think You Can Dance
So You Think You Can Dance (U.S. TV series)
So You Think You Can Dance is an American dance competition and reality show that airs on Fox in the United States.The series first premiered on July 20, 2005, and was created by American Idol producers Simon Fuller and Nigel Lythgoe and is produced by 19 Entertainment and Dick Clark Productions...

. The show premiered on the said channel on January 4, 2011 and was canceled a month later in the same year. Kimberly Wyatt

Kimberly Wyatt

also served as a judge on Live to Dance
Live to Dance
Live to Dance was a United States television reality program and dance competition on the CBS network. Dancers from all over the country auditioned for Live to Dance in "specially constructed Dance Domes"...

.

Series 2

A second series of Got to Dance began on 2 January 2011. It was hosted by Big Brother presenter, Davina McCall

Davina McCall

Davina McCall is an English television presenter and actress, most notable as the presenter of the UK version of Big Brother up until its move to Channel 5.- Early life :...

. The prize money for the second series was £250,000, the largest cash give-away on a television Talent Show.

The format of the second series of Got to Dance was slightly different to the first series. There were eight audition shows followed by four live semi-finals, and a live final at Kensington Olympia, London on February 27, 2011 in front of an audience of 6,000 people. The dance dome auditions for the series were held in Glasgow

Glasgow

Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...

, Dublin & London.

Callbacks

At the Callbacks, the judges could not decide between eight of the acts so they organised a dance-off to fill the last four semi-final places. The acts in each category had to “face-off” their opponent with one dance; the judges then decided the winner of the each "face-off" and that act went through to the live semi-finals.

The eight acts in the dance-off were:

Alleviate (won) vs Sean and Stacey.

Dance Dynamix (won) vs Frameous.

Lauren Hair (won) vs Natalie.

Addam McMillian vs Crazy Popper (paired as duo named Liquid Metallic)

Semi-finals

The live semi-finals for Got to Dance 2011 began on Sunday 30 January 2011. There were seven acts in each live semi-final (28 in total). Each act performed in one semi-final each with only 2 advancing to the final. The judges awarded gold stars to the acts they believed deserved a place in the final.

Semi-finalists

The following 28 acts were shortlisted from 200:

Chris and Wez (winners),
Octavia,
Tap Attack,
Trilogy,
QMX,
Ghetto Fabulous,
Cerebro,
Luke Mann,
Razzle Dazzle,
Ella,
Turbo,
Podilya,
Bolly-Flex,
Guyz in Sync,
Back 2 Back,
Damhsa Dreams,
Tamara,
Elmes 3 Style,
Synergy,
Mystic Force,
Two’s Company,
Trinity Warriors,
Shockarellas,
Eruption,
Alleviate,
Lauren Hair,
Dance Dynamix,
Adam McMillan and Crazy Popper.

Semi-final 1 (30 January)

Order	Contestant(s)	Stars			Result
Order	Contestant(s)	Adam	Kimberly	Ashley	Result
1	Cerebro	★	★	★	Eliminated
2	Podilya	★	★	★	Eliminated
3	Luke	★	★	★	Eliminated
4	Chris and Wes	★	★	★	Advanced
5	Eruption	★	★	★	Eliminated
6	Alleviate	★	★	★	Advanced
7	Ghetto Fabulous	★	★	★	Eliminated

Semi-final 2 (6 February)

Order	Contestant(s)	Stars			Result
Order	Contestant(s)	Adam	Kimberly	Ashley	Result
1	Shockarellas	★	★	★	Eliminated
2	Guys in Sync	★	★	★	Eliminated
3	Damhsa Dreams	★	★	★	Eliminated
4	QMX	★	★	★	Eliminated
5	Ella	★	★	★	Eliminated
6	Turbo	★	★	★	Advanced
7	Dance Dynamix	★	★	★	Advanced

Semi-final 3 (13 February)

Order	Contestant(s)	Stars			Result
Order	Contestant(s)	Adam	Kimberly	Ashley	Result
1	Elmes 3 Style	★	★	★	Eliminated
2	Octavia	★	★	★	Eliminated
3	Trilogy	★	★	★	Eliminated
4	Tap Attack	★	★	★	Eliminated
5	Two's Company	★	★	★	Advanced
6	Back2Back	★	★	★	Eliminated
7	Lauren	★	★	★	Advanced

Semi-final 4 (20 February)

Order	Contestant(s)	Stars			Result
Order	Contestant(s)	Adam	Kimberly	Ashley	Result
1	Tamara	★	★	★	Eliminated
2	Mystic Force	★	★	★	Eliminated
3	Liquid Metallic	★	★	★	Eliminated
4	Synergy	★	★	★	Eliminated
5	Razzle Dazzle	★	★	★	Advanced
6	Bolly-Flex	★	★	★	Eliminated
7	Trinity Warriors	★	★	★	Advanced

Final

The live final was 90 minutes long (taking place at Kensington Olympia) and featured the eight dance acts that made it through the semi-finals as well as a special performance from 2010's winner Akai Osei

Akai Osei

and dance troupe Diversity

Diversity (dance troupe)

Diversity are an English street dance troupe based in London. They are best known for winning the third series of Britain's Got Talent, famously beating Susan Boyle in the live final. They also won the Families United Positive Role Models at the Spirit of London Awards. The group, initially known...

. After the acts performed there was a 6-minute window for voting. For the first time in a UK entertainment program, viewers could vote using a specially designed application for the iPhone

IPhone

The iPhone is a line of Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphones marketed by Apple Inc. The first iPhone was unveiled by Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007...

, iPad

IPad

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and iPod Touch

IPod Touch

The iPod Touch is a portable media player, personal digital assistant, handheld game console, and Wi-Fi mobile device designed and marketed by Apple Inc. The iPod Touch adds the multi-touch graphical user interface to the iPod line...

Live Final (27 February)

Contestant(s)	Number of Gold stars	Result
Chris and Wes	★★★	Winners
Alleviate	★★★	Top 3
Razzle Dazzle	★★	Top 3
Turbo	★★★	Eliminated
Dance Dyanamix	★	Eliminated
Two's Company	★★★	Eliminated
Lauren	★★	Eliminated
Trinity Warriors	★	Eliminated

Series 3

Series 3 will start in January 2012. Producer auditions took place during July & August 2011 in Glasgow, Newcastle

Newcastle upon Tyne

Newcastle upon Tyne is a city and metropolitan borough of Tyne and Wear, in North East England. Historically a part of Northumberland, it is situated on the north bank of the River Tyne...

, Liverpool

Liverpool

Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...

, Manchester, Cardiff

Cardiff

Cardiff is the capital, largest city and most populous county of Wales and the 10th largest city in the United Kingdom. The city is Wales' chief commercial centre, the base for most national cultural and sporting institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of the National Assembly for...

, Birmingham

Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...

, Bristol

Bristol

Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007...

, London and Dublin. Filming will take place in various stages from July 2011 - March 2012. In November 2011, it was revealed that Louie Spence had joined the Judging panel.

Web coverage

Some of the auditions have proven extremely popular on the internet including Happiness from Series 2 whose dance to "Scatman" by Scatman John has become an internet success with over a million views online.

As such, her audition has become a meme

Meme

A meme is "an idea, behaviour or style that spreads from person to person within a culture."A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols or practices, which can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals or other imitable phenomena...

as fans have created video mashups to different songs and posted videos of themselves doing the 'Happiness Dance' on YouTube

YouTube

YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....

Got to Dance bursary fund

The second series saw the introduction of the Got to Dance bursary fund. This fund, worth £15,000, was to be distributed amongst auditionees that the judges felt weren't yet good enough to progress in the competition, but whom they felt had real potential, and was to be used to enable them to develop and cultivate their dance skills through professional tuition.

Transmissions

Series	Start date	End date	Episodes
1	20 December 2009	14 February 2010	10
2	2 January 2011	27 February 2011	14
3	1 January 2012	March 2012

External links

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Format

Ratings

Series overview

Semi-finalists

Live show chart summary

American version

Series 2

Callbacks

Semi-finals

Semi-finalists

Semi-final 1 (30 January)

Semi-final 2 (6 February)

Semi-final 3 (13 February)

Semi-final 4 (20 February)

Final

Live Final (27 February)

Series 3

Web coverage

Got to Dance bursary fund

Transmissions

See also

External links