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From six to 16 they come spray tanned, sparkling in diamante and
spangled in lycra to battle it out in the cut-throat world of freestyle dancing.

Filmed over one dance season Disco Babes follows the fortunes and failures of one dance school both on and off the floor.

This film offers an intimate and amusing portrait into the lives of these inner city kids as they train and compete for the biggest competition of the year - the Five Nations International Cup in Wales.

“Every wee girl wants to be a dancer,” says Cory, who is 16. Every dancer in the school wants to be Cory. She is the role model who has her sights set on a dance career.


However this film, made by Tern Television, is more about members of a community whose life centres round the glitz and glam of disco. In some cases they hope it’s their ticket to a different life while others just hope it keeps their kids off the streets.

As viewers follow the tears and tantrums, highs and lows of a community whose only religion is dancing, the film examines the relationships between the mothers and daughters of the disco world.

Louise Liddy, producer/director of Disco Babes, said: “When I started filming Disco Babes I thought I was entering the world of pushy parents. I’m not saying that it doesn’t exist but as I got to know this group of mothers I realised that all they wanted was a better life for their daughters. The Belfast they grew up in was hard and it means they will give whatever they have to their kids if it will offer them more opportunity than they ever had.”

Disco Babes is on Monday February 16 on BBC One Northern Ireland at 9pm.