I don't know much about the technicalities of dancing - as anyone who has seen me dance will know - I have a limited number of moves and I don't really have anything technically challenging in my repertoire. So I would forgive people for say I know bugger all about dancing, so you may discount my view on dancing in these blogs - but people ask my views and sometimes I think it's easier for me to write them down. Judges say musicality is important for competition dancers. I have spent most of my adult lift striving to study and understand music - and it is one of the most important things in my life - not the kind of music I hear at dancing. So I decided to write about music and dancing and competitions here. I promised a blog on musicality because here I see a disjunction between what judges see as important and what is presented to them and to the rest of us on the dance floor. For me the best dances 'dance the music' - they don't dance to it, they ...