FAMED ballet dancer Darcey Bussell visited the Isle of Wight today (Monday) to launch a new fitness class.


More than 350 people descended on Ventnor Winter Gardens to meet the Strictly Come Dancing judge and take part in the DDMIX class.

Designed by Darcey and choreographer Nathan Clarke, the 'diverse dance' class is a fun, full body aerobic workout based on dozens of different dance genres ranging from the tango, waltz and salsa dancing to the energetic sounding 1980s Rocky and Miami disco styles.

Darcey said on the DDMIX website: "After my career I wanted exercise without taking it too seriously. I wanted to have fun with movement. The idea of DDMIX came about as I wanted to enjoy many flavours of dance styles and wanted to experience them all at the same time.

"With this in mind it was about creating up-to-date choreography and music that was authentic to the style, but having a funky popular element to it."