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The Dance for Life

Documentary series exploring the ways animals move. Steve Backshall takes a look at some of the extraordinary dance-like moves that animals perform to survive.

Steve Backshall takes a look at some of the extraordinary dance-like moves that animals perform to survive all aspects of life.

With music from favourites like Olly Murs, Meghan Trainor and the Bee Gees, we see lemurs ballet dancing and shrews doing the conga to get around, humpback whales performing a tightly synchronised routine to get a meal, and daredevil toads turning themselves into rubber balls and hurling themselves off cliffs to escape from predators.

This programme explores how dancing in the animal world, whether solo or group routines, is an integral part of everyday life.

58 minutes

Last on

Tue 28 May 2019 16:15
BBC Two & BBC Scotland

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Music Played

Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes

  • Coldplay

    Paradise

  • Bee Gees

    Stayin' Alive

  • Mark Ronson

    Uptown Funk

  • Olly Murs

    Dance With Me Tonight

  • The Isley Brothers

    Do The Twist

  • Paolo Nutini

    Pencil Full Of Lead

  • Redneck

    Cotton Eye Joe

  • DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince

    Boom Shake The Room

  • Meghan Trainor

    All About That Bass

  • Yolanda Be Cool

    We No Speak Americano

  • Pitbull Feat. John Ryan

    Fireball

  • Coldplay

    Sky Full of Stars

  • Will-i-am feat. Britney Spears

    Scream and Shout

  • The Prodigy

    Get Your Fight On

  • Maroon 5

    Moves Like Jagger

  • Supergrass

    Alright

  • 00:01

    Coldplay

    Paradise

  • 00:15

    Olly Murs

    Dance With Me Tonight

  • 00:19

    Rednex

    Cotton Eye Joe (Original Version)

  • 00:26

    Meghan Trainor

    All About That Bass

  • 00:29

    Yolanda Be Cool & Dcup

    Tu Vuo' Fa L'americano

  • 00:30

    Berk and The Virtual Band

    Change

  • 00:51

    will.i.am & Britney Spears

    Scream & Shout

  • 00:52

    The Prodigy

    Get Your Fight On

  • 00:54

    Maroon 5

    Moves Like Jagger (feat. Christina Aguilera)

  • 00:55

    Supergrass

    Alright

Credits

Presenter Steve Backshall
Producer Clare Brook
Series Producer Christina Nutter
Executive Producer Jo Shinner

Broadcasts

Meet the dancers

Meet the dancers

Fact files on the animals featured in Nature's Greatest Dancers

Meet the narrator

Meet the narrator

Adventurer, natural history TV Presenter, public speaker and author Steve Backshall.