Hello, everyone, I'm Jamie Lang, and this is Great Moments.

Well, hey guys, welcome back. I hope you're well. Now, today's great moments is with the larger

than life, Louis Spence. Louis's amazing. Louis instantly lit up the room when he came into the great company set. He's just one of those people you basically can't help but smile around. In this great moment, we talked about his natural ability for dance and how he's used it to connect with people, both on stage and in everyday life. For Louis, dance has always been about so much more than being on stage. It's given him community. Okay, so if you like this great moment, you'd love the full episode with Louie. You can find it in the show notes. You've just got to go and click on it. And there's loads more episodes as well. So here it is. There's great moments with Louis Spence. You went to this dance school. How good were you? Honestly, does it separate yourself from your own? How good were you? I think I had a natural ability, so I was lucky. I didn't have to fight for dance. I was never a triple threat as in singer. My singing was awful. I mean, I suppose I could act a bit. But the dancing, it was a natural ability. You know, I was very fortunate. You could just feel it. I could just do it. Nothing was a struggle for me. My body, I had to, I could do splits.

I could do feel it. You could just feel it. I could just

do it. Nothing was a struggle for me. My body, I had to, I could do splits. I could do backflips.

I didn't have to push myself. So I had a natural, a natural talent in that. Did you love it?

I loved it, but it needed to be nurtured. And, you know, at stage school, I must say, at stage

school, I didn't really learn a lot

more than what I did. I think I was kept back a bit because some people weren't as advanced as me

naturally, but I learned how to be, you know, a fabulous gay and tap dance. You know, honestly,

and like I say, you know, I met some incredible people.

The environment was full of young, like from 12 to 16 year olds in the lower school who were just, like it was like fame.

It was like what you see on TV.

This is a Italian contour.

People would sing and dance and people were camp and funny.

And you just, I just learned so much about life and being with, like, you know, you had the me who was there, you know, my parents scraping every penny, then you'd have people like yourself, or not you actually, because you'd never have got in, but you'd have like three members from one family and their parents were paying for that, who they would stay in their dad's flat when we're at the Barbican in Barbican because their dad had a flat in... You know, so there's this real mix of people. Did you feel, especially back then, was the sense of opportunity so exciting? Yeah. Like it was everything to play for. Because they had an agency at the school as well. So then you'd do, you know, there'd be a notice come up on the board of who was going to do Grange Hill, which was a show.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Like as an extra, and then, like, I think Bugsley Malone in the West End, you know.

Because that was your first ever role. Like in the West End, yeah.

So, you know, about who's going to audition?

And then when you get the job and, you know,

so you'd go and see on the board,

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