LOUIE SPENCE: How I Found My People | GREAT MOMENTS
episodePreviously titled “Louie Spence: How I Found My People | GREAT MOMENTS” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 2, 2026
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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.
Yeah.
People would sing and dance and people would 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. Well, 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 Barbican. 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.
Yeah, 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 there.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like as an extra. And then like as in Bugsy 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, there's an audition coming up for, I suppose now it'd be like, you know, if the kids were there for the Harry Potter films or whatever, you know, there'd be the audition. So they'd go to all them schools first. So it was fantastic. It was absolutely incredible, you know.
Was there a part of you, because I think a lot of, I remember acting and wanting to go into acting and being on stage and being in front of audience, because I think I definitely felt a sense of, a real sense, like we all do, of insecurity. And I thought being in front of people, being on stage where you were loved, would cure a lot of things.
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.
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