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The judges

Arlene Phillips

Arlene started her career as a dancer. She created the Seventies dance troop sensation Hot Gossip and choreographed all their routines.

Arlene is one of the most respected and renowned choreographer in the business.

She is best known for her work on countless musicals, directing and choreographing Saturday Night Fever in London and New York and Starlight Express at the Las Vegas Hilton.

She choreographed Grease in the West End and on tour and directed the concert tour of The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Michael Flatley's acclaimed arena production Lord Of The Dance.

Arlene has choreographed films including Annie and Monty Python's Meaning Of Life and television shows including The Brit Awards and The Royal Variety Show.

Arlene's music video credits include Duran Duran, Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, Elton John, Queen, Diana Ross, Tina Turner and Robbie Williams.

Arlene has also choreographed over 100 commercials in England, Europe and the USA including Dr Pepper, Coca Cola, Levi Jeans and American Express.

Luca Tommassini

Luca has been in the industry for the last 20 years. He was a child dancer in Italy and went on to dance for Madonna, Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston.

He had his first break when he choreographed Whitney Houston's Miracle video. Then he worked with Madonna, performing and choreographing her Girlie Show World Tour.

In the UK he has worked with Robbie Williams, Geri Halliwell and on Kylie's World Tour.

Luca was also Madonna's Argentine Tango partner in the film Evita.

Luca is now turning his hand to directing and has worked with both Pavarotti and Ronan Keating and directed a European Coca Cola commercial.

Luca has received many awards for his choreography such as TOTP Awards 2001 for Kylie's On A Night Like This, Italian Music Awards for Evita, Star Search Int winner as Best International Dancer and many more.

Stacey Haynes

Stacey has been performing for 15 years in various West End shows and operas at the Royal Opera House and the London Coliseum.

She performed and was associate choreographer with Cliff Richard on a number of his UK and European Tours and staged his 40th Anniversary Concert at The Royal Albert Hall.

Stacey's West End and UK touring credits as resident director/choreographer include Fame, Five Guys Named Mo, Carmen Jones, Smokey Joe's Caf茅, Rent, The Rocky Horror Show and The Lion King.

She is now artistic director for Clear Channel Entertainment recruiting choreographers for a variety of productions and is currently working on Grease, Cats, Chicago Tour, The Producers, Starlight Express and the new production of Guys And Dolls.

Jason Gardiner

Originally from Melbourne, Australia, Jason has lived in London for nine years making it his home.

He has performed all over the world from the USA to the West End.

Jason is best known for his recent appearances as the lifestyle guru on the UK version of Queer Eye For A Straight Guy.

But he began his showbiz life as a dancer and choreographer. His dance credits include stints as the head dancer for Kylie Minogue and Ce Ce Peniston.

He has choreographed for Bjork, Shirley Bassey, Cher, Ultra Nate, Marc Almond and Gareth Gates.

He has also done his fair share of theatre work - both as a dancer and as an actor.

He appeared in huge hits like Cats, 42nd Street, West Side Story, My Fair Lady, Oklahaoma and Chicago.

He even danced for our very own Arlene Phillips.

Jason has also done a lot of TV and film work - credits include MTV Europe's Mondo Show, Blue Peter's Gareth Gates Dance Competition 2002, Merchant Ivory's Surviving Picasso, Cats and MGM's Production of De Lovely.

He also appeared as a dancer in Kevin Spacey's Beyond The Sea.

The dance coaches

Kevan Allen

Kevan started his career in the early Eighties as a dancer and has since had over 20 years experience of dance and choreography.

He was one of the original 'wild boys' in Duran Duran's video and has gone on to work as their choreographer.

He made his choreographic debut at the age of 17 with the first independent dance company to feature in a ten week television series for Channel 4.

They performed throughout Europe, including a Royal Variety Performance and a Royal Gala.

Kevan has staged and choreograph for Kylie, Tom Jones, Bryan Ferry, Olivia Newton John, Duran Duran and Elton John.

He was a featured choreographer on the hit TV series Popstars and also recently worked on Graham Norton's series in the USA.

Kevan has a traditional training background (ballet, tap, modern and jazz) and has choreographed in numerous styles including salsa, lindyhop, merengue and rock 'n' roll.

Vanessa Leagh Hicks

Vanessa trained in all aspects of dance, acting and singing and attended the Italia Conti Academy from the age of 10 to 18, qualifying as a Teacher of Dance.

She is trained in ballroom and Latin American dance and was the South East Latin American dance champion for three years.

Her West End stage credits include: La Cage Aux Folles, Crazy For You, Cats, Sweet Charity and Chicago.

Vanessa is currently West End dance captain and understudying the role of Velma Kelly in Chicago, where she has been choreographing and performing for the past seven years.

She has choreographed for Top of The Pops and CD:UK and successfully choreographed Emma Bunton's video Maybe, opened the British Style Awards, choreographed the titles for the 'new look' Top of The Pops and for Rachel Stevens at the Royal Variety Performance.

Vanessa recently choreographed Children in Need working with the cast of Coronation Street performing a medley from Oliver Twist and with the newsreaders performing Wild Boys and Venus.

She has also choreographed for Will Young and Dannii Minogue.

The salsa specialist - Joseph Koniak

Joseph is one of the leading authorities on salsa and lambada dance in the UK today.

He trained in all aspects of dance at the London Contemporary School of Dance and brings a unique style to the world of Latin rhythms.

As a professional dancer Joseph has performed and choreographed all over the world including musical theatre, solo dance productions and television performances.

Joseph was a winner of the UK Lambada Championships and was the first officially recognized winner of the UK Salsa Championships in 1999. He became a world finalist in the same year.

In 2001 Joseph went on to win the official UK Salsa Championships for the second time.

Currently Joseph is mostly recognized as the face of salsa from the 大象传媒 ONE ident.

The lindyhop specialist - Ryan Francois

Ryan is two-time US Open Lindyhop Champion and US American Lindyhop Champion.

His partner and wife, Jenni Thomas, was Wayne Sleep's partner for five years and is the three-time All England Tap Dance Champion.

Ryan is a key figure in the revival of lindyhop and the subsequent popularity of swing dancing.

He's been dancing lindy for about 21 years but can now turn his hand to most swing dances.

He began as part of the UK-based Jiving Lindy Hoppers before leaving and forming his own company, the Zoots and Spangles.

He's even featured on the old Come Dancing series, when he danced the lindyhop and swing dances over a period of six weeks.

He's one of the swing dancers to have featured on Broadway, when he danced in his own show called Swing which saw him nominated for six Tony awards.

He recently choreographed the swing dancing elves in the Tom Hanks smash hit, The Polar Express.

He also worked on the movie Swing Kids and recently completed the forthcoming film releases Heavily Feature - a musical movie featuring Outkast, Macy Gray, Glen Morino and Bob Fosse.