It is notoriously difficult to use words to describe movement, so thank you to Lyndsey Winship, in her review of R:Evolution at Sadler’s Wells (3 October), for characterising “weightless développés” as “rock solid but buttery soft”. I can feel exactly what she means – especially important as I shall not be able to see the show. Makes me wish I could, though.
Tina Sharpington
Lincoln
• It’s perhaps not the sort of tribute she would have welcomed, but your obituary of Jane Goodall (2 October) might have mentioned Gary Larson’s Far Side cartoon where a chimp is finding blond hairs in her mate’s fur and asks him “Conducting a little more ‘research’ with that Jane Goodall tramp?”
Bryn Hughes
Wrexham
