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102-year-old sees herself dance for the first time
Thursday 23rd April 2015 | Rhea
A heartwarming video, the ultimate #TBT, is making the rounds on the web this week. Back in her prime, 102-year-old Alice Barker was a renowned chorus line dancer who performed in famous venues such as The Apollo and Cotton Club. Despite her numerous appearances working in TV and film during the 1930s and 1940s, she had never actually seen herself on film. This changed when she was presented with a number of movies discovered by David Shuff and Mark Cantor of jazz-on-film.com.
Whilst watching for a second time, she talks about how much she loved doing it for a living at the time and goes on to say “It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing”. Towards the end of the video when asked how it makes her feel, she claimed she wished she were able to get out of bed and do it all over again.
