REACTION to Barnsley’s turn in the limelight on new prime-time BBC series Our Dancing Town has been universally positive.
It featured West End choreographer Steve Elias’s trip to Barnsley where he tried to recruit a cast of hundreds to perform an ambitious choreographed dance routine through the town centre which celebrated the town, its people and its heritage.
The end result was a stunning routine captured in one continuous unedited camera shot as the dancers processed from the town hall, down Regent Street and through the town centre to finish by the miner’s column at the transport interchange.
It featured miners, majorettes, police officers, glass workers, office workers and Northern Soul dancers.
The programme was ‘trending’ on Twitter while it aired on Tuesday night as thousands of people posted comments - most saying how well Barnsley and its people were portrayed in the programme.
Read more in this weeks Barnsley Chronicle
