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Hanna and I were also invited recently to a pre primary school in Wallingham to give a speech on going all the way to achieve your goals and dreams. This again was a very rewarding experience that Hanna and I truly enjoyed. I spoke about how I had come from being a bush baby in Africa to an International Latin American Dancer and what it took to pursue my dream of becoming a professional dancer.
Hanna and I have also recently had the pleasure of working with The Sun newspaper in conjunction with Simply Dancing Partners, organising and running a large corporate team building event. Obviously this was not done for charity purposes but rather a great opportunity to get into the hearts and minds of many anti dancing men and woman that thought they could or would never learn to dance. But much to their own surprise they did, and really enjoyed it too! It is these occasions which give Hanna and I such a buzz! For too long dancing has been the unpopular or “uncool” thing to do. However, if we can get a whole team of reporters up and dancing then there is a glimmer of hope that it will one day come back into fashion through out our English culture.
Strictly Tea Dancing at the Caron Keating Foundation Charity Fundraiser.
Hanna and I together with two other SCD couples Matthew Cutler and Izabella Hannah and Darren Bennet and Lilia Kopylova spent a wonderful afternoon with Gloria Hunniford and her family at the Lanham Hotel. She hosted one of her Fundraising events for her late daughters Cancer Charity the Caron Keating Foundation. The 3 couples each performed a small show for the event and Darren and Lilia donated a private dance lesson to the Auction. |
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Our lovely dancing girls with Sir Cliff Richard |
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Well this is the part of our business that sometime makes all the hard work worthwhile. The reason for this is two fold. One we get to meet many wonderful and exciting people but secondly and more importantly we get a chance to give back to the community and to others less fortunate than ourselves. As dancers we can sometimes become very self absorbed in an industry where we are constantly being judged on how we look, behave, perform and compete and so we are constantly looking at how to make ourselves better in appearance, performance or competition so I feel in order to somehow balance this, self absorption we need to look at how we can effect or change the world around us for the better through our dance skills. As a result Hanna and are very honoured and excited in becoming proud supporters of, would you believe it...Saracens Rugby Club. Man Group Ltd one of Saracens major sponsors very kindly invited us as guests at some of their Charity Events where we donated private lessons to be auctioned to raise money for their chosen charities. There charities include Wooden Spoon who supports disadvantaged children and young people. “ASPIRE who work with people with spinal cord injury to create opportunity, choice and independence. As a big rugby fan, it has been a pleasure to be involved with a wonderful people such as the talented Saracens team. |