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Chapter 1: What is Louie Spence's background in dance?
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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 moment is with the larger than life, Louis Spence. Louis is 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 Louis. You can find it in the show notes. You just got to go and click on it.
And there's loads more episodes as well. So here it is. This great moments with Louis Spence. You went to this dance school. How good were you? Honestly, 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 could just feel it. I could just do it. Nothing was a struggle for me. My body, I could do splits, I could do backflips. I didn't have to... pushed myself.
So I had a natural talent in that.
Did you love it?
I loved it, but it needed to be nurtured. And at stage school, I must say at stage school, I didn't really learn a lot of 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.
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Chapter 2: How did dance help Louie Spence connect with others?
That was giving me some validation. Did you have any of that? Or you just actually just loved performing?
No. I just love performing. I mean, there's nothing like, I mean, I love performing because when I dance, like I say, when I did something, I did feel like sometimes like when you do things like, I call it a turn for now, like a pirouette. It's when you turn on one foot or something, or you jump in the air, you know, or you do like, I used to do lots of flips, like somersault.
And there's a moment where you feel suspended, like when you're doing somersault in the air. And you feel amazing. You can literally feel yourself going through the air and you can see the ground. And you know that you are looking amazing. I knew I was fucking great at tumbling, you know. And you just knew. And that feeling that you knew you were incredibly...
better than anyone else at that point. And the whole room is looking at you and they're all your peers, all other people, but you're that little bit better than them at that. Do you know what I mean? There was no better feeling than that.
There was something there.
And it wasn't about the applause from the audience. That came after with becoming a public figure and knowing that I could, like when I, like you say, I can't help myself. When I come in here, they put me in a room downstairs, which was lovely. I must say, lovely little room, nice decoration, same as wherever else. Not enough suites in there. I didn't see any suites in there.
So I thought, I'm not sitting in here. So I went straight upstairs, went straight into the room with the girls, had a chat with the girls and the dog, found out one of the girls went to the same school as me. And then, you know, I went in and see the marketing team. I asked my sales, going, sales are good. I said, well, that's good.
And then I got to eat the new peanuts, you know, which are new, the chocolate peanut ones. And I said, my husband gets me some of them from Tesco, but actually they're nowhere near as good. And I'm not just saying that because the Tesco ones, the chocolate's not very healthy. It's not very nice chocolate and it doesn't have the crunch. Anyway, so I just went and introduced myself.
Then I went up to the top office where you've got your accounts or whatever. And then, you know, there's a little ballroom at the end.
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Chapter 3: What was Louie Spence's experience at stage school?
Was it completely two different lives? Or not really?
Yeah. Well, you know, that's the thing. I didn't really used to go back. Did you not? No. So from the age of 12? Once I was in London, that was it. And even for one of my sister's weddings, I say one of them because it wasn't the first one. I didn't even bother going back. I was like... I was living this, I love them. Of course, like I say, one of my sisters lives with me as well now.
Do you know what I mean? She's in the annex, darling, that I had to build. You know, so we're a very close family, but at that time- Did you lose yourself in that sort of- Oh, absolutely. And I'd always ring home every night and say, hello, mom. Yeah, what's going on? Yeah, right, love you, bye. But things like weddings, I thought,
Wasn't exciting.
I don't give a shit about it. I don't want to go and go to a fucking wedding. And, you know, I couldn't be bothered, which sounds wrong because, but, you know, by that time, I think my sisters had two kids each anyway. They were getting married. They'd already done the deed. But what was the excitement?
Where was the drive? What were you seeking? What were you after? What was more fun? Was it the party, the connection, the roles? What was it?
No, I mean, what, staying, like not going home so much?
Yeah, not going home and being there. Yeah.
I was just, like I say, I was just, I had my friends and we had our flat and we had our world. And you didn't want to leave it? Yeah, we would do like, you know, go and do dance class in the morning and the afternoon, go back, shower, pick up a free fly from a gay bar. So on Monday night, we'd go down to, I think it was Bang, which used to be a store here on Tottenham Court Road.
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Chapter 4: How did Louie Spence feel about performing in front of an audience?
If it ain't on one to five, you know, on terrestrial. Who's going to watch it? So I thought, you know, like I said, we weren't being paid. Didn't give a shit. You know, really didn't, had no... No idea, nothing. No. And like I say, everything we did on there was totally real. We had a cameraman with each one of us. There was no storylines given to us. There was no, can you do this?
You were just having fun.
We were doing, the place was a hive of theatrical activity. There was dancers, there was singers, there was gays, there was straights, there was bi's, there was tri's, there was trans, there was fucking all, darling. Do you know what I mean? Literally, everything was in that building and everyone was just free there.
So you put a camera in there and someone just guiding it, you're going to get a great show. The things we did do was like the choreographed, the little dance routine.
Yeah, they were amazing.
But apart from that, no, that was it. No, did we think it was going to be a hit? Absolutely not.
Man, look, your life is a thing, because also, you were doing that, you were doing Western shows, you toured with the Spice Girls?
Yeah, that was incredible. What was touring with the Spice Girls? It was the most incredible job, because we went around the whole of North America, the whole of Europe, as dancers.
Dancers didn't get to do that kind of job, because we always had the American artists, like Janet Jackson, Madonna, Michael Jackson, they always brought dance over, but we never had an act that had dancers that broke America. I mean, the Beatles maybe broke America years ago. But after that, there's never been somewhere what would take a group of dancers.
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