With under a week to go before the Champs, I’m entering the obligatory ‘blind panic’ phase. Having come to terms with my limitations at competitive dancing many years ago, my rash agreement to partner a wonderful female dancer who couldn’t find a partner is coming back to haunt me. Whats making me more unsettled were the rules I recently received.

One phrase in particular give some cause for concern:

“ The judges will be looking for style/musical interpretation as well as number/difficulty of moves”

I’ve interpreted this as moves get equal marks as being able to dance to the music. On the face of it, this sounds like a step back to the dark ages when competitions were dominated by ‘move merchants’, rather than those who could dance. Given my own limitations in number of moves, can someone clarify?