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Yeah baby he's got it! Bananarama, Pontins and the brutally funny dance-off

In 1987, Dan Watson’s dance routine failed to nab first prize from a panel of pesky bluecoats. He revisits this haunting childhood experience in his new comedy show, Venus

Good art often chimes with our own life experiences and gives us cause to reflect on our memories, loves, hopes and fears. But rarely is the connection quite this niche.

In 1987, a roughly seven-year-old Dan Watson failed to win a dance contest at a Pontins holiday camp. It’s an experience that haunts him, to the extent that, 32 years later, his comedy-dance-theatre show Venus is all about it.

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