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Katya Jones
Explore the art of dance and its impact on personal expression with Katya Jones, speaker, world champion dancer and environmental activist.
Katya Jones, famed as a professional dancer on Strictly Come Dancing, is a dancer and choreographer. She won the title in 2017 with her partner Joe McFadden. In the 2020 series, she made history by partnering with retired Olympic boxer Nicola Adams, marking the first same-sex couple in the show's format.
Katya's career highlights include being an eight-time British National champion in Latin American dancing and a two-time world champion in the same discipline. She was nominated for a BAFTA for “TV Moment of the Year” for her Gangnam Style routine with politician Ed Balls.
Katya collaborated with fellow dancer Neil Jones on the dance show Somnium: A Dancer's Dream at Sadler's Wells Theatre in June 2019. She has also appeared in various pantomimes.
Active on social media, Katya has 240,000 followers on Instagram, 87,000 on Twitter, and 26,000 on TikTok. She is an ambassador for National Numeracy, Cancer UK, and Magic.
Her interests include environmental sustainability, languages, acrobatics, and yoga. Katya supports charities like Oxfam and Para Dance. She is a native Russian speaker with some Spanish and Italian knowledge.
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Katya Jones draws on live dance performance and choreographic demonstration as her primary format, using her background in competitive Latin American dancing and her Strictly Come Dancing experience to illustrate themes such as perseverance, inclusion, and partnership. Her 2019 show Somnium: A Dancer's Dream at Sadler's Wells Theatre is an example of how she translates these themes into a structured, narrative-driven stage format.
Katya Jones is available for performance, hosting, and after-dinner appearances, with credits spanning live dance shows, pantomime, and television entertainment including Strictly Come Dancing. She is a two-time world champion and eight-time British National champion in Latin American dancing, and won Strictly Come Dancing in 2017 with partner Joe McFadden.
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