Dorice Greenfield was born in 1927 on the family sofa in Acton, London, to a poor but loving family. She started dancing from a young age in order to overcome her shyness. With the breakout of the Second World War in 1939, Dorice was evacuated to the countryside, far from her family and her dancing, until she ran away from school, returning to London to begin her professional dancing career.Dorice married a Jewish man in 1947, to the disdain of her family and society, but they stayed together for 63 years until his death in 2012, aged 95.Dorice still lives in West London, and goes line dancing twice a week.
