Methods of Movement with Chris (on the right in grey) performing on Sunday's semi-final

A Dagenham street dancer and his crew have made it through to the finals of TV talent show Got to Dance after wowing the public with their moves.

Chris Childs, of Grafton Road, Dagenham, is a member of dance group Methods of Movement, one of two troupes to win the public vote on yesterday’s semi final, screened on Sky1, and land a place in the last stage of the contest.

If crowned winners at the final on March 4 the seven members will walk away with £25,000 in prize money.

Speaking after their energetic performance, celebrity judge Ashley Banjo, from Dagenham street dancing crew Diversity, said: “What good performances have are technicality, difficulty and precision, and you guys had it down. That was like amazing, I really felt it.”

The seven-piece group were put through to the semi-finals earlier this month after impressing Ashley and his fellow judges, Pussycat Doll Kimberly Wyatt, and tap dancer and actor Adam Garcia.

Chris is a body popper - which involves quickly contracting and relaxing muscles to cause a jerk in your body - while the remaining six, five boys and one girl, are break dancers.

The 25-year-old, who appeared in the semi final of the show last year as one half of Liquid Metallic, says their sequences are unique.

“We mix popping and break dancing which is unusual,” he told the Post. “And there’s a girl in our group too. I think we stand out from others.”

He said getting to the finals felt amazing: “We’re all really excited by it. But we’ve worked really hard to get here. None of us have had much sleep recently because we’ve been training so much.”

To win said Chris, also known as Crazy Popper, would be amazing: “It would mean a lot, both to get the title and to win the money, which we would invest in to the group.”

Barking and Dagenham has seen previous dance success when dance group Diversity won TV talent show Britain’s Got Talent in 2009.