Northumberland Long Sword and Rapper Dancing in Leytonstone from fugueur on Vimeo.
Went along to this performance by Hawksword dance side at Holy Trinity Church Leytonstone last night. It was part of the Leytonstone Festival. The doors of the newly-built church were open to the summer evening coming in off the estate (where the Hollydown Estate tower blocks once stood). My 7-year-old son was reticent about going in at first – you can imagine he wouldn’t have ever seen anything like this before, but he soon bought into the spectacle.