Why Scrooge is getting his groove on at Sadler’s Wells

In 1999, the future choreographer Dannielle “Rhimes” Lecointe was only 14, an east London schoolgirl off to her very first dance audition. “It was a community centre on the Barking Road – now it’s flats – and the queue was all the way down the street,” she recalls. “I [had] never auditioned in my life, and I remember going in, and seeing you guys, all these older people.”

Those intimidating elders were Michael “Mikey J” Asante and Kenrick “H2O” Sandy – although,…