Alastair Macaulay: “[It’s] time to say that ballroom [dancing] today (at exhibition and competitive levels)” – and in shows like Burn the Floor and Ballroom’s Best – “proposes behavior from both sexes that looks not much like courtship and seduction but something alarmingly close to rape and whorishness. … [A]ll these stunts, acrobatics, point-scoring and flashy displays of sexual availability are what matter. Musicality, phrasing, intimacy and actual sensuousness are what don’t.”