Professional dancers, Matthew Sandiford and Jan Mika Villaneuva, came to Lansbury Lawrence today to perform to our whole school this afternoon. They had created a short montage from Jungle Book Reimagined, an Akram Khan performance that has been touring the world. Matthew and Mika have performed the dance over a hundred times! After the performance there was a Q&A session, where children could ask questions about what they had seen and being a dancer.
Matthew and Mika said they had been interested in dance since they were young, and that interest had kept them wanting them to get better and better, and to become professional dancers as adults. They spoke about how they need to practise routines lots and lots of times, and how practise helps them to improve.
Today was also Mika’s birthday, so the whole school sang Happy Birthday to her at the end of the assembly.
