A RAMSBOTTOM dancer and her troupe have wowed judges to reach the live finals of a hit BBC dance competition.

In the tense Call Back on Saturday’s episode of The Greatest Dancer, Amy Lawson and her jazz septet The Queens were named as one of Cheryl Ann Tweedy’s two acts and landed themselves a place in the live Challenge shows.

Together with their Dance Captain Cheryl, The Queens will now take on a challenge to create a performance to impress viewers at home and keep them in the competition when the show returns to screens this weekend.

The Queens joy came after they blew away the audience and Dance Captains with their synchronicity and unique style ­— plus a surprise twist as one the dancers dressed as a granny to inject some side-splitting humour to the routine ­— dancing to ABBA’s Does Your Mother Know in the third audition show of the new series.

Their performance saw them secure the all important 75 per cent of the audience’s vote and open the mirrors to earn themselves a place in the Call Backs.

Cheryl congratulated The Queens on their performance and said they thoroughly deserved for the mirror to open.

She added: “I thought it was a really interesting approach to choreography because by now we have seen a lot of the same thing. But to see something kitsch and quirky and expressed in such a different way was really refreshing.”

However Cheryl thought The Queens should have held back on the comedy element. As did fellow judge and American actor Matthew Morrison.

But the comedy proved at hit with the other two Dance Captains, Strictly Come Dancing’s Oti Mabuse and American singer, actor and choreographer Todrick Hall, who said he thought The Queens had “something special”.

“I don’t think I have ever seen a group of girls dance so closely together and so in sync while also showing their personality at the exact same time,” Todrick added. The Greatest Dancer airs on BBC One on Saturday from 6.30pm.