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.
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Clips
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Devil rays leaping
Duration: 01:23
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Pebble toad bouncing down a cliff
Duration: 01:41
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Spanish dancer
Duration: 01:01
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Shrews conga
Duration: 01:06
Music Played
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Coldplay
Paradise
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Bee Gees
Stayin' Alive
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Mark Ronson
Uptown Funk
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Olly Murs
Dance With Me Tonight
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The Isley Brothers
Do The Twist
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Paolo Nutini
Pencil Full Of Lead
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Redneck
Cotton Eye Joe
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DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince
Boom Shake The Room
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Meghan Trainor
All About That Bass
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Yolanda Be Cool
We No Speak Americano
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Pitbull Feat. John Ryan
Fireball
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Coldplay
Sky Full of Stars
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Will-i-am feat. Britney Spears
Scream and Shout
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The Prodigy
Get Your Fight On
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Maroon 5
Moves Like Jagger
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Supergrass
Alright
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Coldplay
Paradise
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Olly Murs
Dance With Me Tonight
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Rednex
Cotton Eye Joe (Original Version)
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Meghan Trainor
All About That Bass
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Yolanda Be Cool & Dcup
Tu Vuo' Fa L'americano
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Berk and The Virtual Band
Change
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will.i.am & Britney Spears
Scream & Shout
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The Prodigy
Get Your Fight On
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Maroon 5
Moves Like Jagger (feat. Christina Aguilera)
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Supergrass
Alright
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Presenter | Steve Backshall |
Producer | Clare Brook |
Series Producer | Christina Nutter |
Executive Producer | Jo Shinner |
Broadcasts
Meet the dancers
Fact files on the animals featured in Nature's Greatest Dancers
Meet the narrator
Adventurer, natural history TV Presenter, public speaker and聽author Steve Backshall.