So wish they still did dances like this. I don't mind some of the themed ones, but I wish they'd do some proper, no bells and whistles ones occasionally. We never get to see actual jives or quicksteps or tangos anymore - it always has to be a Latin hybrid.
I agree. I miss strictly being an actual DANCE competition with the proper outfits. Now it's just an entertainment programme. When we had the old format it made the theme weeks that more special and appreciated. I used to look forward to them, now it's basically another week.
I loved Strictly back then. The pros all had personality and the dancing was entertaining no stupid costumes every week! It was a true dance competition.
The professional dancers were absolutely superb and I remember all their names as they were proper stars 🌟 The professionals now are good and probably have more variety, but I doubt I'll remember them all in ten years or so. I adore this group jive 💞
Here I am at the end of 2023 and I've made a special effort to find this particular dance because I love it so much. Routine was simply sublime. Love (and miss!) every single one of them. What a routine!
Loved the couples too! I think they are much better dancers than who they have on now. It was more about the dancing then but it seems more about being a ‘celeb’ themselves!
This is my favourite pro dance in strictly. Everyone is giving it their all, and they are all proper ballroom dancers, unlike now, when the influence is far too much back row of the chorus in a show at the end of a pier somewhere. The glory days of strictly are long past, unfortunately, but this always cheers me up when I view it online
Totally mesmerising. Best group dance ever. I was trying to think of the original couples....remembered most of them. Shows how production has changed, couldn't really make out their individual faces whereas now the clarity is amazing....More, more, more please.
I would love to see a reunion of all the previous professional dancers and the show could be dedicated to head judge Len, now wouldn’t that be nice 👍🏻 👍🏻
Most watchable pro dance ever! I'm back for another viewing, as per every 3 months or so! Well done Matt and Nicole for the choreography, and to the whole team for performing it with such verve.
The Strictly of today could learn a lot from this performance. The professional dancers were wonderful and I loved watching them. Please can we go back in time as it was so much more entertaining?
I love the pro dances they have now with the big production and concepts but I miss pure dancing like this, it really shows how phenomenal the pros are
Masterful, commanding performance. This is my best dance of strictly of all times. It is a beautiful unfolding story line and the music by Billy idol is his best ever. Everytime I watch it, I get goose bumps. I love all the dancers and miss the ones that are absent like Nicole. Brendan's entrance was spectacular. Love it, love it, love it. It's a five ***** performance.
Top tier pro dance the pros today would never do this and im sure they’d all be capable of it. So wish to see proper pro dances like this in strictly now.
Probably the best jive by anyone in Strictly history, incredibly complex with the circle and constantly changing partners…….every dancer was on their A game.
this is definitely the classic cast, but time moves on and I love seeing the new talent come in. plus i would say talent in the celebrities has got higher in recent years.
I seen many jive dances and they all professionals, but this dancers are the best. They move like one, and the song of Billy Idol match wonderfully for jive.
Mine too. I was really upset when Matthew, Darren and Ian all left the show at the same time. This dance is brilliant. I'm not sure what the show has lost but it just isn't the same now.
Spangles70 I agree, he was brilliant. Yeah the new guys are good, but they're nothing special, and they have no personality. Matthew was a great choreographer, and he danced this jive like I've never seen before. If he, Ian Waite and Karen Hardy were back, the show would be the best thing on TV.
Pure PERFECTION ❤ this was FANTASTIC back then , as time has gone strictly is NOT THE SAME !!! I WAS OBSESSED WITH THIS SHOW , IT HAS GONE SH!T !!! ITS NOT THE SAME ANYMORE !!! IT WAS SO MUCH BETTER WHEN IT WAS LIKE THIS !!! ABSOLUTELY GUTTED , ITS NOT LIKE THIS ANYMORE , ITS GOT BORING AND ITS NOT ENTERTAINING NO MORE!!
I miss this being the pro dancef lineup 😭 I love current dancers like Amy, Gorka, Johannes or Dianne, but you can't beat dancers like Darren, Lilia, James, Ola, Karen Hardy, Brendan, Anton and Erin!
+Concerto86 I think series five as the annus mirablis of the show in some ways - certainly the group dances were better than anything we've seen since - there are a lot of really good pro ones like this and apart from the week two boys one. All of the pro/celeb group dances were great too. i really miss pro/celeb group dances.
So wish they still did dances like this. I don't mind some of the themed ones, but I wish they'd do some proper, no bells and whistles ones occasionally. We never get to see actual jives or quicksteps or tangos anymore - it always has to be a Latin hybrid.
The other week at Strictly 2021 they did one which was just a ballroom dance.
Other then that though I would agree. The Halloween dance last year was HORRIBLE
This was one of the best pro group dances in strictly history 🙌🎶👍.
I agree. I miss strictly being an actual DANCE competition with the proper outfits. Now it's just an entertainment programme. When we had the old format it made the theme weeks that more special and appreciated. I used to look forward to them, now it's basically another week.
I loved Strictly back then. The pros all had personality and the dancing was entertaining no stupid costumes every week! It was a true dance competition.
The professional dancers were absolutely superb and I remember all their names as they were proper stars 🌟 The professionals now are good and probably have more variety, but I doubt I'll remember them all in ten years or so. I adore this group jive 💞
You are spot on 100% these are proper dancers my hero’s I watched at Blackpool
Here in 2022 and I still say this is the best professional jive dance ever!
I agree, Nov 2022 and still my favourite.
Definitely a class above
Here I am at the end of 2023 and I've made a special effort to find this particular dance because I love it so much. Routine was simply sublime. Love (and miss!) every single one of them. What a routine!
Will always be one of my favourite group dances 🎉🙌🩷, it's ashame so many of these professionals have left .
Watching in 2022. They don’t do group dances like this anymore. I miss a lot of the old pros. You can’t just watch this once xx
My favourite professional dance ever - I wish they were still like this.
I think this pro dance was from 2007? I never tire of watching it. Still yet to be bettered!
2021 and still can't stop watching this group dance. Can't think of any other that can top it.👏🏻
Me too!
Agreee!!
Loved the couples too! I think they are much better dancers than who they have on now. It was more about the dancing then but it seems more about being a ‘celeb’ themselves!
@@gillianhart2344 absolutely agree.
2022 and still the best
This is my favourite pro dance in strictly. Everyone is giving it their all, and they are all proper ballroom dancers, unlike now, when the influence is far too much back row of the chorus in a show at the end of a pier somewhere.
The glory days of strictly are long past, unfortunately, but this always cheers me up when I view it online
Same.... but this and the red light spells danger one , I love too! X
I wish they still did pro dances like this! Much better when it's just dancing and no gimmicks.
Fabulous. I wish the pro dances were more like this nowadays. Pure brilliant dancing, no gimmicks.
Strictly producers need to watch this - Amazing!
oh my gosh they're really talented aren't they? i've been watching this over and over.. it's really brilliant
I'm so pleased to find this clip. Without doubt the best rock number the professional dancers have ever danced.
Totally mesmerising. Best group dance ever. I was trying to think of the original couples....remembered most of them. Shows how production has changed, couldn't really make out their individual faces whereas now the clarity is amazing....More, more, more please.
Matthews kicks & flicks still mesmerise me
My entire life, i have only witness this group. It’s top notch with so much energy and love what they so.
I would love to see a reunion of all the previous professional dancers and the show could be dedicated to head judge Len, now wouldn’t that be nice 👍🏻 👍🏻
Would love to see dances like this again .this is fabulous..feel todays pro dancers arent a patch on these guys
Most watchable pro dance ever! I'm back for another viewing, as per every 3 months or so!
Well done Matt and Nicole for the choreography, and to the whole team for performing it with such verve.
Those were the days!!
The Strictly of today could learn a lot from this performance. The professional dancers were wonderful and I loved watching them.
Please can we go back in time as it was so much more entertaining?
I love the pro dances they have now with the big production and concepts but I miss pure dancing like this, it really shows how phenomenal the pros are
Absolutely fabulous, loved them all and know all their names. ❤
Nice to see the old faces - the whole show seemed to be more professional then, not so ego-driven.
Masterful, commanding performance. This is my best dance of strictly of all times. It is a beautiful unfolding story line and the music by Billy idol is his best ever. Everytime I watch it, I get goose bumps. I love all the dancers and miss the ones that are absent like Nicole. Brendan's entrance was spectacular.
Love it, love it, love it. It's a five ***** performance.
Absolutely fantastic! One of the best group dances ever.
One of my favourite group dances on Strictly!
Love this wish the groups dances were still done like this you can see all the dancers great how they have there own section.
Top tier pro dance the pros today would never do this and im sure they’d all be capable of it. So wish to see proper pro dances like this in strictly now.
Still watching it in 2017.
One of (if not the) best...
Probably the best jive by anyone in Strictly history, incredibly complex with the circle and constantly changing partners…….every dancer was on their A game.
They need to bring these type of dancers back
this is definitely the classic cast, but time moves on and I love seeing the new talent come in. plus i would say talent in the celebrities has got higher in recent years.
Lilia and Ola's shimmy to each other is the best bit. So cute!
Nicole Cutler ….. amazing 🤩
That was so good. I still remember the moment clearly.😍
Still the best 12 years on!
I seen many jive dances and they all professionals, but this dancers are the best. They move like one, and the song of Billy Idol match wonderfully for jive.
Some of my all time favourite dancers how classic 👍💯
Mine too. I was really upset when Matthew, Darren and Ian all left the show at the same time. This dance is brilliant. I'm not sure what the show has lost but it just isn't the same now.
Strictly, please, please, please bring this back
doubt if todays dancers could keep up.
I miss these dancers!
This is still one of my all time fave Pro dances on Strictly.. 💚💚
I love to watch superb dancers, since I'm such a clumsy clunk myself. I have always envied people who can dance.
Bloody brilliant
Wow, these people look like they're flying! Thanks for this video!
Does anyone else notice how James Jordan is the only man there with his shirt cut to the shoulders. He has guns, and he's gonna show them. 😂
I agree i miss the proper dancing as I call it. They were all true greats bring it all back in style
I never tire of watching this!
Same! It's simply the best.
1:38 to 1:40 that slide was amazing
I know I keep replaying that part!
I am so stunned that he didn't mess up his legs before, during, or after the slide. Props to that guy!
yes. Brendan Cole great at them
This was the best group of professionals :)
Still one of my favourite pro group dances 💚
Love a good jive this is what the show is good at instead of in-descript dances.
Yes! That’s professional Jive! Thanks !! Show dancing with the stars because the have NO idea what the jive is.
it`s amazing the way those girls dance with high-heels
FANTASTIC XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXGave me goosebumps LOVED it.
All my fave dancers, how i miss this:(
Brilliant!!! ✨️👏👏👏
I miss when the pro dances were like this❤️
Wow . I'd forgotten this ❤❤
Best profesh jive everrrrrr
The best performance, what ever seen before!!!
Amazing!
They don’t have dancing in strictly like this any more plus these were great professional stars
Absolutely fantastic!!
How good is Matthew Cutler eh? He makes everything look so fluid and effortless. Great dancer
He's fab, getting rid of him was a big mistake imo. I still miss him every year it's on and he's not in it!
Spangles70 I agree, he was brilliant. Yeah the new guys are good, but they're nothing special, and they have no personality. Matthew was a great choreographer, and he danced this jive like I've never seen before. If he, Ian Waite and Karen Hardy were back, the show would be the best thing on TV.
Matthew Cutler made dancing look so easy
@@TRASHoftheTITANS also Erin Boag I'm not sure how to spell her surname.
Insanely good ❤⭐️
This dance will always be my fav
Oooohhh, Lilia!!!
Back when the professional dances were also done live as opposed to now being recorded beforehand with a clapping track placed over it
Lovely to see these dancers again 😍
The best SCD dancers.
This is so incredible.
The very,very best .
Pure PERFECTION ❤ this was FANTASTIC back then , as time has gone strictly is NOT THE SAME !!! I WAS OBSESSED WITH THIS SHOW , IT HAS GONE SH!T !!! ITS NOT THE SAME ANYMORE !!! IT WAS SO MUCH BETTER WHEN IT WAS LIKE THIS !!! ABSOLUTELY GUTTED , ITS NOT LIKE THIS ANYMORE , ITS GOT BORING AND ITS NOT ENTERTAINING NO MORE!!
except for this years Chris and Dianne , they made it good for a lot of people.
I personally think the 2 best pro dancers ever are Karen Hardy and Matthew Cutler
I love this bring this back strictly
I miss this being the pro dancef lineup 😭 I love current dancers like Amy, Gorka, Johannes or Dianne, but you can't beat dancers like Darren, Lilia, James, Ola, Karen Hardy, Brendan, Anton and Erin!
I really miss Brendan.
@@rosalindconvery6304 Me too! I loved that he would stand up for his celebrities to the judges, the pros these days won't say anything!
How clever are the women dancing in high heels!!
Perfection. Could the current pros do this dance? I don't think so.
This was well worth watching!
@madamonit YES YES YES!!! I get never get tired of watching this, brilliant choreography and for me its gotta be James Jordan....fwoarrrr!!!
Strictly is not what it used to be back them loved everything dancers judges
Gosh!! What more can I say.. Just absolutely amazing!!!
the first 20 seconds of the beat is crazzzzy. crazy dancers too
im baked
Ребята молодцы! Хочется снова и снова просматривать этот ролик ! wow!
There is an atmosphere that strictly has it just makes me all tingly and warm inside
I'm knackered just watching this, Karen hardy gorgeous ❤
this video deserves more viewsss
Still one of my favourites, would love to see a return to proper dances
Hell yeah! That song kicks ass!
I miss this era
Brilliant!!!
Fantastic dancing!
Where can i find more performances on this group? This is the finest performbace i have ever seen in my life
what's amazing is that the women have to do all these moves in freakin' HIGH HEELS!
Still say this is the best pro jive
LEGENDARY
Still my favourite!
I never get enough of them 👍🏻❤
This really was the golden era of Strictly. It's just not the same now.
+Concerto86
I think series five as the annus mirablis of the show in some ways - certainly the group dances were better than anything we've seen since - there are a lot of really good pro ones like this and apart from the week two boys one. All of the pro/celeb group dances were great too. i really miss pro/celeb group dances.