Wednesday, April 05, 2023

Dancer Sees Herself Perform for the First Time



Alice Barker was a hoofer during the Harlem Renaissance in the 1930s and kept at it for decades. She also appeared in a few movies. In this video, Barker is 102 years old, and you can still see the dancer in her. She got an opportunity to see herself perform on video -for the first time ever. This is a lovely sequence. Read the story behind it at Mashable. And you can see the sequences of Barker dancing in full here. The nursing home showed the videos regularly after it was discovered. Barker passed away about a year after this video was made. (via Neatorama)


4 comments:

Kevin B said...

Perform....you have perfornn....I love your page, you know that.

Miss Cellania said...

I'm sorry, I can't see any problem with the word perform.

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Debra She Who Seeks said...

Wonderful video!