Strictly final: Dancers with sight loss praise Chris McCausland

Anum Munawar, 35, teaches Bollywood dance in Cardiff and says her love for it goes back to her childhood growing up in Malaysia.

“While my sister would put Bollywood movies on, I would dance to it,” she said.

As a teenager, she choreographed and performed a routine at her sister’s wedding.

“I think, from there, the passion for dancing really started,” she said.

“I had a knack of picking up the lyrics of a song and choreographing to that.”

Anum, who has cone-rod dystrophy (CORD) and colour blindness, first experienced sight loss at about eight years old, and her vision has deteriorated and changed at various points since.

“Sight loss is unique for different people but, for me, balance is quite an issue, depth perception, spatial awareness,” she said.

“And in Bollywood dance, there is a lot of spinning.”

Using her hands more, and keeping choreography “simple, but still graceful and with that essence of dance” are among the adaptations she has made.

She said Bollywood dancers were known for wearing bright colours, which she could not see, adding with a laugh: “My mum still picks out my costumes”.

Anum said this year’s Strictly “feels like a victory, whether or not Chris wins”.