Dance lessons have become so popular that the activity is now second in popularity only to football in Britain's schools.
The number of pupils choosing dance has risen 83 per cent in four years and a third of them are boys, according to research by the Arts Council.
Teachers say that boys involved in more traditional sports, such as rugby, make good dancers because of their strength and overall fitness.
Entries for dance GCSE have gone up from 10,091 three years ago to 17,855 last year.
Whilst not wishing to belittle anyone who decides to take up dancing, can you imagine a young man going to a job interview and telling them that although he couldn’t read and write very well he did have a GCSE in dancing!
I went to dance lessons in ‘my own’ time…Friday nights at Victor Silvester’s Dance Studio if I remember correctly. ………Only got to Silver in Ballroom and Latin!
Note: Victor Silvester is the correct spelling. Many sources - even including some cheap modern reissues of his records on CD - wrongly have "Sylvester".
My spell checker got it wrong as well !
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