185:. By 2005, an Australian workshop of the show was named "Jason Gilkison's Ballroom." Through the course of several tours, the production tinkered with what worked. Growing into a large production requiring seven vehicles to move from city to city, the tour's creative team began to realize that they preferred the show more stripped down and focused on the dancers. According to Gilkison, “The goal was to streamline it, make it more theatrical, reinvent it with the help of the dancers, who had their own ideas of how to make it more contemporary."
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