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Dancer Joe Stribley, from Maidstone, a Britain's Got Talent semi finalist, will appear in a Dirty Dancing tribute in Fokestone

18:00, 17 June 2015

A Maidstone-born performer who reached the semi finals of ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent will be starring in a show which pays homage to the film classic Dirty Dancing in the county.

Joe Stribley, 22, who started out at the Mandy Ellen Performing Arts College in Earl Street, was a semi finalist in the hit show with five-piece tap group The Beat Brothers, last month.

Tomorrow (Saturday)he will be part of the cast of An Evening of Dirty Dancing: The Tribute Show at the Leas Cliff Hall in Folkestone.

Joe Stribley with Alisha Dee Flintham in An Evening of Dirty Dancing
Joe Stribley with Alisha Dee Flintham in An Evening of Dirty Dancing

He is a dancer in the fifth anniversary tour of the show, which celebrates the multi-award winning movie soundtrack, Dirty Dancing.

He said: “It feels awesome to be coming home to Kent with An Evening of Dirty Dancing. I love being a part of the show and it’s always an amazing night. The choreography is really hard but it keeps us on our toes.

Joe on stage in the show
Joe on stage in the show

"It’s been a great year so far with this and getting to the semi-finals on Britain’s Got Talent. It was such a brilliant opportunity and we all loved every minute of it. It was unreal."

He also revealed earlier this year that he was working as a dancer on the stricken Costa Concordia cruise ship when it was ran aground on a jagged reef near Tuscany in January 2012 in a disaster which claimed 32 lives.

Tickets for An Evening of Dirty Dancing: The Tribute Show cost £21.90 plus a £2.85 transaction fee. To book visit www.atgtickets.com/folkestone or call 01303 228600.

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