Alice Barker, who lives at a nursing home at the age of 102, watched herself dance for the first time on video recently. She was a dancer during the Harlem Renaissance in the 1930s.
Barker appeared in films, commercials and on television, but she watched footage of herself dancing onstage in a nightclub, which proved to be very nostalgic for her.
Jazz on Film’s Mark Cantor and David Shuff brought the footage to Barker’s room in the nursing home and played it for her. Her face lit up as she watched three videos.
“It just felt so good doing it because that music -- I just get carried away in it,” she told them as she watched, Huffington Post reports.
When they asked her what type of feelings she had reliving those days she said, “Making me wish I could get out of bed and do it all over again.”
Today.com reports she even used to dance with Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly.
Shuff, who found the videos for Barker, has been making updates on Reddit, writing of the videos her “recreation nurse plays them on the big TV in the communal room regularly. She's kinda a rock star these days."