3 DECEMBER 1965, Page 14

Non-dancers

SIR,—As one who has tried dancing, disliked it and given it up, how much I agree with Alan Brien and how swinish do I find the idiotic incompre-

hension of dancers when it comes to non-dancers.

But what is perhaps more infuriating are those traitorous non-dancers (usually men) who weakly succumb to female wittering and take to the floor like badly manipulated marionettes, obviously loathing every minute of it.

If the non-dancing movement (comparative im- mobility) is ever to become a force in the land; if ever our point of view is to be listened to, not merely with sympathy but with respect, we must put our feet down—and keep them there.