Twist and Pulse

Twist and Pulse

Twist and Pulse are an English street dance duo based in London. They are best known for being the runners-up of the fourth series of Britain's Got Talent, famously coming in second to Spelbound in the live final.

Ashley Glazebrook (Twist) and Glen Murphy (Pulse) met at the BRIT School of performing arts and technology where they were both studying for a BTEC National Diploma in Dance, where the duo trained in Ballet, Tap dance, contemporary and Jazz dance. They discovered they had an equally wacky sense of humour and quickly became best friends. With college coming to an end, Glen and Ashley formed a duo initially called The Cheeky Boiz, and began rehearsing. Their resulting ‘Streetomedy’ performances - a blend of streetdance and comedy - went down a storm and led to the duo reaching the finals of BGT in 2010. They performed on the morning show on ITV, Daybreak, in the week leading up to the 2011 Britain's Got Talent.

Britain's Got Talent

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The pair - who got three "Yes" votes from the judges, who were much amused by the duo dancing to the EastEnders theme and The Cheeky Girls' "Touch My Bum", their act billed as "streetomedy", was met with much support at their London audition.

Declan "Dec" Donnelly is quoted saying: "These two guys come on and dance to the EastEnders theme tune. That's clever and new." Anthony "Ant" McPartlin laughed: "It took me back 15 years ago to when me and Dec were PJ and Duncan... but they could actually dance!" Dec chimed in: "If they can present a TV show we're screwed!"

Ant and Dec were heard to say: "With their bright hip hop outfits and body popping moves, they reminded us of ourselves back in our P J & Duncan days with one small difference, they could actually dance, and we... um... couldn't."

2010

After coming runners up Twist and Pulse went on tour with BGT live, visiting over 14 cities. Since then Twist and Pulse have been all over the country performing, one of the biggest being Midlands Music Festival where they were watched by 20,000 fans. They did a summer tour of all three Butlins holiday camps. They have also been booked for big celebrity weddings and private parties.

Twist and Pulse TV performance included ITV's Magic Numbers where they did a dance that was made up from music from blockbuster films such as The Matrix, Titanic and Pirate of the Caribbean to name a few. They have also appeared on The Five O’Clock Show (C4), GMTV (ITV1), This Morning, Teen Nick continuity (Nickolodeon UK), The Seven Thirty Show (UTV).

In December BBC NI invited Twist and Pulse to perform live on Children in Need 2010 in front of a large crowd at the Odyssey (Belfast)

Ashley (a.k.a. Twist)

Twist (Ashley Glazebrook) was born in 1991 in Sidcup, in a family of two brothers, four step-brothers and seventeen cousins. From a young age Ashley was known to love music, especially music performed by Michael Jackson. It was at The Bexley Business Academy Secondary School that Ash began to show an interest in dance and joined a local street dance group, performing at events such as The Streetdance Weekend UK Championships and The World Hip Hop Championships in Las Vegas. He then went on to study dance at The BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology, where he is about to finish his final year.

Glen (a.k.a. Pulse)

Pulse (Glen Murphy), was born in 1990 at Guy's Hospital and brought up by his parents in South East London, where he still lives. Glen finished at the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology last year and as well as concentrating on touring with Twist and Pulse, he teaches urban dance at the BRIT.

External links

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