Under Tony Blair’s rule, UK dance has thrived in many ways. “After decades of being squeezed into small, grubby or unsuitable theatres, a cash-rich mix of lottery funding, Arts Council money and private sponsorship has allowed dance to be re-housed in an amazingly glamorous style… But there is one bleak note amid this bonanza. The problems of funding never go away – the lack of money, the inequities of its distribution – and the final months of the Blair decade have been particularly bad for dance.”