“When Strictly Come Dancing started, I saw how dance suddenly became mainstream. It suddenly became cool to dance again and it didn’t matter whether it was hip hop, or jazz, or ballroom or Latin or tango. We worked very hard, lots of us all over the country, to get it back into schools so, of course, when you have taken all of these steps forward, it would be very sad to see any kind of funding go and then realise that we are stepping backwards again because we are finally there.”