Grab your dancing shoes this weekend as Strictly Come Dancing dancers Anton Du Beke and Erin Boag are bringing their Swing Time tour to the Barbican Hall.

The evening will be filled with choreography to I Could Have Danced All Night, I Got Rhythm, Moondance, I’ve Got The World On A String, Guys And Dolls and Le Jazz Hot, which are being sung by vocalist Lance Ellington, who has also appeared on the hit BBC television show.

There will also be six world-class Ensemble Dancers and a 25-piece London Concert Orchestra conducted by Richard Balcombe, followed by a “Question and Answer” section for the audience to participate in.

The dancing duo will also be celebrating their 20th anniversary of dancing together, after meeting in 1997 and winning the New Zealand Championships two years in a row.

Erin was born in New Zealand but lived in Australia briefly before moving to the UK in 1996 to pursue her dream of becoming a ballroom dancer.

She competed in 10 series of Strictly Come Dancing before hanging up her Strictly boots after the 2012 series to start a family with her businessman husband Peter O’Dowd. Her TV partners included Julian Clary, with whom she came third, Colin Jackson, where they achieved second place, Austin Healey and EastEnders actor Ricky Groves.

After giving birth to her son Ewan in the spring of 2014, Erin was back dancing by June of that year, partnering Anton at Proms in the Park and Christmas Cracker at the Royal Albert Hall.

Their new Swing Time show is their ninth national tour together and Erin explains why she can’t resist returning to the Barbican every year…

The 41-year-old says: “When you watch Strictly Come Dancing on television, you don’t really appreciate how extravagant it is. You have that great atmosphere when it is live and as we have done so many tours now, we like to do a lot of different things in our shows.

“There is a lot of feel-good factor when you come to the show and it will be filled with glitz, glamour and great music. We don’t walk on and push play to any sort of recording on stage, we have a live orchestra that comes with us to each venue, as well as six professional dancers high kicking and doing the splits, which is incredible. The Barbican is a beautiful venue with a wonderful atmosphere.”

Erin may have been working with Anton for many years, but her passion for dancing began at the age of three after following in the footsteps of her parents.

She says: “My passion for ballroom dancing began as a child. My parents were dancers and so I was in dance classes when I was very young. I did it as a hobby until I was about 15 and then started taking it seriously.

“I moved to Australia when I was 19 to pursue dancing and then I came to UK a year later as I decided that I wanted to go where all the world champions trained, which was in London. I packed my bags and my mother was full of tears but I reassured her I’d be back in a couple of years, although she is still waiting for me to return!

“I wouldn’t return to strictly in the future, as I did it for 10 years and it was wonderful, but it takes up seven days of your life and I realised that I can’t do that with a small child.

“I have the freedom now to branch out and do other things. I didn’t retire from life, just Strictly.”

Swing Time, Barbican Hall, Silk Street, Barbican, EC2Y 8DS, Saturday, February 11, 2.30pm and 7.30pm, details: 020 76388891, barbican.org.uk