Airdate: Dancing Cheek to Cheek

SBS begins a new 3 part UK series Dancing Cheek to Cheek presented by historian Lucy Worsley and Strictly Come Dancing star Len Goodman.

Revealing the untold story of British dance, it explores how dance is about sex and seduction, power and politics, economics and of course, romance.

Episode One: The Devil’s Work?
Len Goodman and Lucy Worsley explore how dancing went from being frowned upon as dangerous and debauched in the 17th century to being celebrated as an essential social skill in the 18th century.
Len uncovers the long history of English country dancing at Middle Temple Hall and Lucy reveals how the dance-mad French King Louis XIV influenced British fashion as she learns a Baroque court dance designed to express her deepest emotions.

7:30pm Friday on SBS.