STRICTLY Come Dancing professional Pasha Kovalev's latest tour is going "really, really well".

"I really enjoy bringing dancing to live audiences, because that's the best way to feel the emotion, feel the passion, feel the reaction from everyone there," says the 36-year-old Russian, who will be performing with his regular partner Anya Garnis at the Grand Opera House, York, on Saturday.

"The great thing is that the show is so diverse; we have something for everyone. We have amazing dancing; exciting choreography; some banter; audience participation and great songs. Everyone comes out smiling – children, their parents and their grandparents –which tells me that we're doing something right."

Pasha is following up his Life Through Dance tour with his new show It's All About You. "Every tour is different: different choreography, different costumes, and this time I've a put a little storyline in there, a little love story," he says.

"I'm covering things like falling in love, suffering heartache and trying to work out everything for the best at the end, so there's a happy ending! "The whole point is to take the audience on a rollercoaster of emotion and to submerge them in a world of beauty and passion."

Pasha gives everything to the tour, not only as a dancer. "I'm the director, the designer, the choreographer...the driver," he says. "I do it because I enjoy it so much. Performing is an incredible feeling, and when I enjoy it, so does the audience, and that's why I prefer to work with dancers who share my passion for dance and treat those two hours on stage as the most important thing in the world."

From taking his first dance steps at eight, Pasha's journey has led him from Siberia to Moscow, New York to Los Angeles, where he began his television career, and onwards to Strictly Come Dancing since 2011, finishing second with Chelsea Healey and Kimberley Walsh before winning with Caroline Fleck in 2014.

"I love the way you relate to dance in this country; people love coming to the theatre; they love being entertained, probably more than in any other country I have been to. You want to give more because they give so much back; they keep you energised," says Pasha. "An hour after the show, I'm still buzzing."

There is a "big possibility" of Pasha returning to Strictly – "hopefully we will know in a week or two," he says – but for now It's All About You. "It's called that because I'm trying to show through dance the things we experience in all our lives," he says. "It pretty much describes every person or a part of their life, so that's why 'it's all about you'."

Pasha Kovalev in It’s All About You, Grand Opera House, York, Saturday, 7.30pm. Box office: York, 0844 871 3024 or atgtickets.com/york