A long conversation, then the same three moments every time, so you always know where to find them.
HOST & CO-FOUNDER
BACKGROUND
I have studied DanceSport for 30 years, taught for 20 and judged for 15. I danced in four UK dance tours and spent two years as a professional dancer on Let’s Dance in Germany. I started in Eastern Europe, learned in Germany from some of the best teachers in the world, and now live in the UK, the country that developed ballroom dance. That gives me a global sense of the DanceSport world, and hundreds of podcasts on human behaviour and psychology have taught me how to shape my words so they reach the new generation of dancers.
MY WHY
I am not someone who usually worries about things. The dance world worries me. I have shaped my whole life around dance, and I want to protect Ballroom and DanceSport as much as I can. It is a sport judged by the eye, with its own kind of team spirit and an old system behind it, and we should reconsider the way we do it.
MY HOW
Conversations with people from every part of the industry, not only the top names, because that is just one point of view and we need the complete picture. Every question and every bit of guidance points toward solutions that can shape a vision for the future of DanceSport.
THE TEAM
Break The Routine was founded by Marius, Alexandra and Loïc, three people who live DanceSport from different sides of the floor.
CO-FOUNDER
Alexandra dances herself, and a show where DanceSport talks about itself in the open was close to her heart from day one. Alongside Break The Routine she is co-founding InBetween, the app that turns what your coach says in a lesson into focus points you keep working on between lessons.
CO-FOUNDER
For Loïc, Break The Routine is a free-expression project close to his heart: a place where DanceSport can speak openly about itself. Alongside the show he is co-founding InBetween with Alexandra.
TEAM
Georgia is a dancer and the director of ALT Dance, a Yorkshire dance company running weekly adult classes, wedding dance lessons, workshops and competition judging.
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Dancers, coaches, judges and fans, on long-form video, audio and short clips every week.
Figures as of 26 Oct 2026.
