Joy&Bill: London September 30, October 1, 2, 3

We drove down to London from Norwich to continue the GOLD tour.

First stop, a whole day at Trinity Laban Faculty of Dance near Greenwich to help celebrate the International Day of Older People. Yes, here are those famous people again.

We were given a tour of the whole place. It is one of Europe's leading centres for training professional contemporary dance artists. Their facilities include a 300 seat theatre, studio theatre and outdoor theatre, 13 purpose built dance studios and the largest dance library and archive in Europe. They also provide classes for the community, including the mature age groups we met.

Sharing a creative class with All Singing All Dancing group.

Then they joined in an interesting creative class with Elisabetta and the GOLDs.

After a Dance for Health class we presented Air Kiss and Pop Art to the other groups. Once again we were really well received. Here we are striking up our poses for Pop Art.

Of course we had to have a photo on the mound in their grounds.

After a long and fabulous day at Laban we had a quick rest, then it was off to a quirky dance performance by Lea Anderson that evening at The Place.

Next day, waiting at Moorgate tube station, on our way to Sadler's Wells.

At Sadler's Wells we were very fortunate to be given a back stage tour. On the stage the techies were setting up for the evening performance.

Looking down Sadler's actual well. In 1683 Dick Sadler built a Music House and discovered a medieval well in the grounds. Believing the water had miraculous medicinal powers, people flocked to the well to enjoy musical entertainment, to stroll the gardens and take the water. The building we toured, opened in 1998, is the fifth Sadler's Wells Theatre to have been built on the site.

The auditorium.

Meeting up again with Hannah Ley. She also came to see us in Brighton. Hannah was a well known performer in Canberra and her husband Duncan is also well known as an actor, play write and producer. They have recently moved to England, so a loss to the arts community in Canberra.

At Sadler's Wells we were lucky enough to share a fantastic ballet workshop with the Sadler's Wells Company of Elders, who have been going since 1989. Raffaele Morra from the New York all male ballet dancing company Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo took the workshop. To our delight, Raffaele later taught us the Dying Swan routine from Swan Lake. His company tours all the time and he was in Canberra a couple of years ago.

Outside the English National Ballet building, near Albert Hall. We were there for rehearsals of Romeo and Juliette. A great privilege, but no photos allowed. Bill came too.