100 YEAR OLD BALLERINA?! pointe shoe fitter reacts
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The '100-year-old ballerina' is Suzelle Poole (known as Madame Suzelle). She was born in 1940 so is actually 83. She was a soloist with Houston Ballet among other things.
Hahha yeah I was like that dancer looks like she's in her 20s or 30s pretty sure the footage wouldn't be that quality!
The footage of the "younger ballerina" during the first video (the woman with Alzheimer) is actually a really famous ballet dancer called: Ulyana Viatsjeslavovna Lopatkina. One of the best of our generation in my opinion. It would be great to get the facts straight while showing these types of footage, to educate the newer generation in the right way. None the less impressive and good to share the knowledge that you can dance whatever your age ❤👍
@@Marijkiee Really, that's Lopatkina! I've seen this video so many times and that has never been pointed out. Thanks for the info.
@@vanessachloe8323 I believe she was in her late seventies when this performance was filmed, so it's a few years old.
@@jessaglenny just to be clear. I was referring to the footage that was shown in between the shots of the woman with Alzheimer listening to the ballet music. Those in between shots are Lopatkina. I think (correct me if I'm wrong) you are referring to the footage in the second video of the older woman performing on pointe? That is not Lopatkina. The woman in the second video is someone else, who I don't know the name of.
2:16 the translation is roughly this:
Ballerina: This excites me
Man: Thats normal, my love
How is that not exciting?
And you amaze us… dancing so well
Ballerina: We have to go get point shoes
Man: We have to go get point shoes, right?
Also when they say excites it could be in a more emotional way like “this is moving/touching”. Loved the video ❤ thanks Josephine
We need to get this woman point shoes. I don't care if she can't use them anymore. The queen has given her command.
Immediately started crying. Thank you so much for the translation 💜😭
@@wayfareangel yesss
Gracias ☺️
I worked in a Alzheimer's and dementia unit for 3 years and this was my favorite part. We had a resident that didn't remember he played the piano but if you took him over to the piano without music he could play Christmas songs, beethoven. It was amazing what they can do when it's muscle memory.
Absolutely amazing. I have a sweet neighbor with dementia who is 92. He worked at the BBC in London and Paris. I was at his house during the Queen’s Jubilee and he came to life! He was watching it on TV, telling me so many stories of running past the guards with cans of film, hearing the music as he filmed things, and watching the horses. I was a joy to listen to. Much love from Gensac, France
Awww taht so adorable 😢❤❤❤❤😊
Honestly, the "100 Year Old Ballerina" gave me the courage to try pointe as an adult in the first place. I love this so much!
How old were you when you got into it?
@@kimbari90 I literally started last year at 33. I had danced for 10 years as a child so it's not totally foreign to me but, I also took about 15 years off. It feels amazing though to finally be doing it!
@@samanthaaustin7502 oh cool! Good for you! I've never danced so I was curious.
As someone who can't fully remember 2-minute long recital dances from a year ago, its amazing this 100 year old can remember Odette's part in swan lake perfectly.
She’s actually 83, and the video played is a woman who is now 49 years old. I hey aren’t the same person…
If you have a routine that you have to perform over and over for a competition or show, not just remember for one performance, you'll probably find you subconsciously remember it.
I can't remember a single competition routine for my town cheerleading team, because we only needed to perform it one time, regardless of how much practice came before that performance.
But I can remember almost every move to every routine by my competition team, because we had one routine that would get tweaked throughout a season, but which we performed at numerous competitions throughout a season.
My classical musician mother told me about a pianist friend of hers that passed out during a concert and kept playing for nearly a minute before toppling from the bench. It was recorded and she could point to the place where she fainted by how her playing changed but others couldn't tell. I admit to drifting off in college choir but snapping awake and being right with the group 😂 Muscle memory wins again!
Josephine- “I hope everyone finds something to keep them going”
Me, pet sitting, looking at the dog curled up next to my sleeping- “working with animals. It’s the only thing in life that gives me purpose, peace, and happiness, but doesn’t drain me. I love animals more than I love myself. They’re so pure and sweet, and I want a full on animal sanctuary one day.”
I'm so with you! I'm very, very ill, always in pain, dependent on others, and rarely awake as my brain is damaged (I have a gazillion symptoms). The only 'things' that keep me going are the two wonderful, loving, furry kids I have. Two cats that make me smile or even laugh out loud every day. They recognise my sadness, or when I'm feeling extra bad. I lost a good friend two weeks ago, and my cat immediately walked up to me and started to bunt me, pressing up against me. And I hadn't even started bawling out loud. But he noticed I was in pain at once. His brother always gets upset when I cry and hide, but he - absolutely not a lap cat normally - then came to lie with his head & paws on me when I sat on the couch. And I have a million examples of this. I wish I could get a dog too, but walking them (well, I'm in a wheelchair) would be too intensive for me, as there are plenty days I can't wake up but for 10min or max half an hour per day. As I'm writing this, one of them is lying curled up next to me. The more sensitive one always sleeps half on top of me, lol. He wiggled a spot between my legs on the bed, stretched out on his back, while using my leg as a pillow. He does that, or lies in the hollow of my knees or in my arms ❤.
If I'd ever have the finances I'd love to do the same as you: create some kind of nature reserve for rescue animals, even if it's just a very large garden next to a home, so these poor kitties and dogs don't have to sit in small cages. I'd add an Adoption Café to it where people get to get good coffee and tea, and pie while they play & cuddle with the animals - and hopefully walk out with a pet they'll love forever ❤. The ones not adopted yet will at least get daily love and attention from several people. Animals, especially cats and dogs, are like angels on earth.
This practically brought tears to my eyes! So so beautiful and sweet 😢
I the spanish video, she said I get emocional, and the boy answers, you amaze us.
Josephine, your commentary is always so caring and authentic; I just love these videos you make. As a sidenote, I didn't dance as a child but explored my love of ballet when I turned 50. Now, at 63 year of age, I take 3 technique classes and 2 pointe classes per week. I've never felt better. I'm so fortunate to have an amazing teacher to encourage and correct me.
I'm so glad people were able to identify her. She's still beautiful - look at her hands! So delicate and tapered, like feathers. Lovely.
I absolutely love the art of Ballet and I hope that when I get older that I will be able to continue to dance en pointe. She is an inspiration to us all in the ballet world that you don't have to retire from dancing when you get a certain age. Also the lady with Alzheimer's melted my heart when she started remembering her dance when she listened to the music.
While many see this as beautiful I see it as sad as there will be a day when she will forget even the ballet.
@@dandereninja4750 I can see that. Ballet shares a bond that binds us together like family and yes it will be sad if she does forget about ballet but the fact that she can still remember her solo while also dealing with Alzheimer's is just amazing.
I'm in tears!!! what a beautiful, elegant lady.
Both these videos made me cry... I do dance classes (not ballet, though) in a school that specializes in adults who never danced before, and every dancer studying there is amazing. The joy and enthusiasm when they go on point for the first time are the same as a teen girl.
That's an awesome concept for a dance school, since a lot of adults are very hesitant to try it for the first time!
I’m not a ballet dancer but a tango dancer. In tango, it’s not unusual to dance with 80+ years old dancers (in many tango communities, the dancer average age is around 60 yo). The other day, I danced with a man and I asked him how long has he been dancing and he told me 40 years, more than my entire life!
Also, dance (especially slow partner dance like tango), boxe and tai chi are good to slow down Parkinson’s disease symptoms’ progression.
I was a schuhplattler (bavarian folk dance) dancer and it’s the same, my fav partner was over 80 and he’s been dancing longer than I’ve been alive too, and that’s true too
I dance at an adult studio where we are taken seriously, and I am a fairly average age at 50. Some of the more mature dancers are simply amazing and I want to be just like them when I grow up! Some have absolutely mad skills and technique. Pointe classes are available, and I simply loved going en pointe for the first time ever last year.
I’m 43 and spent the past year rehabbing my ankle due to scar tissue and I’m almost ready to dance en pointe again. Honestly, having the shoes hanging up gave me the reminder daily, and pulled me through so much doubt. Once a ballerina, always.
When I first saw the video of Alzheimers, I was in tears. Even ravished by time, confined to a chair and suffering Alzheimer's. She can still invoke beauty with just her hands.
Ugh… the emotions get me every time.
When dementia and memory related diseases occur, recent memories are often the first to go and people tend to revert back to their childhood memories or those from when they were younger. Seeing the ballerina knowing all of the original moves is super cool.
So beautiful. She has such exquisite hands and natural grace. This shows the power of music for people with these devastating memory conditions. Who could not be touched by this dancer?
This is why dance is so special. This has reminded me why i loved dancing. Also my college tutor did a study on dancing and dislexia. She found out that it can help with it. I cant remember why but dancing can genuinely help with alot of things
This brought tears to my eyes. The passion for ballet is unmatched.
The second dancer performing the Swan is Suzelle Poole from England, and she is in her 80's. She had a long international career and she is still teaching ballet.
I’ve seen this before (yes, that’s her dancing - she was a prima ballerina in the 60’s, I think), but it brings me to tears each time. 😢 Sadly, she passed away a couple of years ago.
The clips that they showed of a dancer doing Odette was Ulyana Lopatkina a Russian prima ballerina from Mirrinsky not her younger self. I wish they include actual footage of herself when she was younger but I guess maybe they don’t have a video of her.
@@ShirlyKtemple You're right. I've searched for video of the woman in the past, I couldn't find anything. All they have is the one crinkled picture of her that was shown in here. Showing a different dancer's performance merely shows the movements the elder ballerina is trying to make. At least that seemed like a reasonable explanation to me.
@@ShirlyKtemple thanks for setting me straight. When I first saw the video a couple of years ago, it said that the younger ballerina was the old woman in her prima days.
@@Mybpeterson 🎉
I've sat with friends who were terminally ill and no longer able to speak, and the one who I'd been in choir with, when I sang one of her favorite songs, I could see her mouth moving just a little: she was singing along in her head. Music gets into our bodies, and it gives our loved ones a way to reach us and recognize us when we have trouble communicating and few other things are getting through. (The hospice I volunteer for now has a music therapist for precisely that reason.)
There's something about music and memory. We lost my grandmother to alzheimers long before we lost her, but as soon as her Norwegian Christmas carols came on she'd come back to us for just a little bit. I saw this clip and was bawling my eyes out because even seeing someone elses grandmother come back to life brought back those precious few moments we had with her towards the end of her life. TY so much for sharing.
The both of them are so graceful with their arms and hands. So beautiful.
I've seen both of these before, and they're amazing! The lady with Alzheimer's makes me cry because she reminds me of my mom, who passed last year. Mom had dementia, but in the later stages, it's very similar to Alzheimer's, and it was kinda heartbreaking to see her relive things she did in the past
Absolutely beautiful! Wiping the tears away. 😊😢
I've seen this before & it brought me to tears again, working with Alzheimer's/Dementia this is beautiful when the clarity comes back, even for a few minutes.... They have a past, they lived life & it matters .. truly beautiful!!
I actually saw this video a while back. I really wanted you to watch this. I am happy you did ❤
It is wonderful that she is still dancing! 💗
They still have such grace in their arms and hands. Just beautiful.
Oh my goodness how Beautiful! God bless her! First one! The other ballerina is incredible too! Love to all here!
I was already on the verge of tears then you stated she had Alzheimer's I lost it and blubbered like a baby the rest of the video.
This is the Spanish dialogue in English:
Woman: It excites me
Man: It’s normal my dear, how would it not excite you? And you excite us! Dancing so well!
Woman: We have to grab the pointe shoes!
Man: We have to grab the pointe shoes, right?
P/S. It sounds kinda weird when translated but this is basically what they mean ❤
Thank you, ❤
Thank you!
Annnd I’m crying 😭 *these were so incredible* 🩰 ❤
I remember watching the first one a few years ago, I cried my eyes out, this is just so sad and amazing at the same time.
Music and muscle memory are powerful things. Both ladies in their own way are still so very fluid in their movements
I took Geriatric Nursing in my BSN program with a geriatric NP who was freaking Google of geriatric knowledge. My mind is NOT like hers and I don’t remember the specifics, but she herself took adult ballet classes (like beginning as adults) as part of her own “healthy aging plan.” I’m sure part of the benefit is increased balance which can reduce the risk of falling, but I’m certain she also said it DOES have cognitive benefits as well.
Most of my nursing career was in ICUs, but I was a CNA in elder care from age 18-23, and these videos moved me to tears. Absolutely incredible women.
This is so beautiful. It brought tears to my eyes. What you were saying about when you were asked about how you remember all the steps. Just tell people it's like driving a car. At first you have to learn the step to make the car go. But after a while you just get into your car and drive.
The first video is a reminder of the power of music and the importance of it. I’ve gone to perform music in nursing homes and we can see residents who are normally non-reactive start to tap their toes or fingers. Some will sing and sometimes you’ll have someone want to get up and dance. It’s truly amazing the parts of the mind that music can unlock. If you have a loved one with dementia, share music with them. Play them the music of their generation. It can help comfort and even possibly unlock some memories or bring them to a lucid moment they can share with you.
With everything she is dealing with and still just honestly elegant with her movements!!!
THE EXPRESSION IN HER FACE!!!! It feels just as incredible as her performance when she was young, even more so in some ways
And the second one??? She’s truly amazing!!!!!!
I’m crying 😭😭😭😭 They both make me so emotional, I can’t even express it
I've seen that first video several times over the past year or so, and every time I have tears running down my face. I don't know why but it really gets to me.
Okay, the 100 year old lady dancing on pointe is the ultimate example that one is NEVER too old to things they enjoy!
This is beautiful. For me every time I here cheerleading music. I start cheering
Such an important video! Thank you so much for posting this!❤
I can remember songs I haven't sung in a very long time, maybe not the words, but the notes and timing to sing along with the music.
It's just buried in my muscle memory.
It's impossible to explain, but joyful to experience.
music therapy is some of the best that's happened to Alzheimer patients
I've seen this before. And I'm in tears again.
I have seen both of these videos, but I never tire of seeing them. I actually watched them both several times. I'm a violinist, not a dancer, but it's amazing how our brains can remember music that we haven't played or danced to in years. Thank you for sharing these videos!
Well......that's me all cried out......just amazing and wonderful.....❤❤❤❤
Oh my Gosh, I've got tears running down the sides of my face!!!!
And with the first one, that's SO SPECIAL & ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL!!!!! WITH BEAUTIFUL CHILLS ALL OVER ME!!!❣❣❣♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️💙💙💙💙💙💙💙
Every time I see this video I cry.
So beautiful!
The footage of the "younger ballerina" during the first video (the woman with Alzheimer) is actually a really famous Russian ballet dancer called: Ulyana Viatsjeslavovna Lopatkina. One of the best of our generation in my opinion. She is retired now unfortunately. It would be great to get the facts straight (such as the real age of both women shown) while showing and reacting to these types of footage. To educate the newer generation in the best way possible. However, it's none the less impressive what we are able to achieve as our bodies age. It's good to bring awareness to the knowledge that you can dance or learn to dance whatever your age ❤🙏
This was one of my favorites ❤ thank you!!
What part of 100 years old and on point are we not understanding that’s beyond beautiful that’s amazing
Both Ballerinas were so graceful & beautiful. I've hated how horrible my ankles are ever since I was told I couldn't even try to go en pointe at 9-10 years old. Videos like these make me reconsider the horrific surgeries my ankles would be required to endure just for maybe a chance to try to go en pointe for a little while.
I love love love this so much 😢❤ I cried watching this
She still floats and flutters. They both do. Breathtaking.
Look at her finger placement so elegant. How amazing
At Ohio State University when I was at uni there, and would take ballet classes to keep up, there was a woman in her late 70s maybe 80s who would take classes with us and absolutely nail everything. We were all just so impressed by her, and some 15 years later, I'm sad to say I have forgotten her name 😢 if there are any Buckeyes out there from that time frame, I hope you can tell me her name and whether she is still dancing or still with us. She was truly a gem in the department and the kindest most encouraging woman.
I seen this a long time ago and it made me cry it was so beautiful🎉❤
Wow!!!! Got me in my feels! ❤
I feel that what Josephone said about finding the thing you love and it keeping you going is so true. There was a British actress, Thora Hird, who was working into her late eighties. She apparently had a motto over her bed which was: You don't retire because you get old. You get old because you retired.
I once ended up chatting with a college prof, I think, at work, and she taught about end of life. And she said that the things we're passionate about are the *very* last memories to go, as we age. It was really beautiful to see in this first ballerina - at least to me, she seemed to really be present, on top of her muscle memory :)
Everytime I’ve seen this I start bawling. Complete with snot bubbles. Pop pop pop
I've seen both of these a few times, amazing and beautiful 😍
The first lady, her arms are so eloquent! Such perfect arms! The body remembers, remembers everything...
Tony Bennett is a perfect example of this same case but sith singing. There's just something about music that connects us.
This is the reason that if/when I have kids I will make sure they are involved in some kind of musical arts (Instruments, singing, dancing). Because music is such a crazy thing that you will always find a connection to.
Her beautiful elegant hands! I was transfixed at their movement, like her whole self was dancing in just those hands.
Martha Graham danced practically until she died. I saw her dance Appalachian Spring at the Met when she was in her early nineties. Beautiful.
Music and smells are locked in tandem with our memory banks; it's why certain smells and songs remind you of a time and place, even bringing back those emotions - studies have been done on it, it's really sweet
I am a songwriter former singer and I loved singing at retirement homes, one day I was singing to patients that couldn’t talk due to stroke or Alzheimer’s when I was singing patient started getting uneasy and her husband held her hand and I kept my eye on them both, I noticed the lady’s mouth trying to muttered the words I was singing, I walked over to her and held her hand that when tears were rolling down her, her husband and my face, I finished the song (crazy by patsy cline) and her husband hugged me and thanked me, telling me his wife was a music teacher and she hadn’t been able to speak in over a year due to her stroke and to see her trying to move her mouth was such a great joy.. I did go back to visit her and sing to her.. The art of music is so powerful even though a time of healing and or remembering a moment in time…
Ever graceful,simply magnificent
In Alzheimers and other kinds of memory problems, they postulate that it's a different part of your brain that remembers music. Music therapy (music they listened to in the past) is really beneficial for people with Alzheimers. People that can't even talk anymore can still hum a tune perfectly.
A few other people have mentioned how the memory phenomenon is to do with music, but I just wanted to add that if anyone is interested in learning more about it, Oliver Sacks did a lot of work with music and memory in patients with dementia and/or brain damage, and so is a great place to start. It's incredible how resilient how parts of our brain are - and how music has so much of an effect on us!
I wasn't expecting to tear up! This is beautiful, but also so sad.
Edit- The first one is beautiful but sad. The second one is just beautiful! Inspiring, too. I started ballet in my early 20s (was a folk dancer as a child) but didn't find a new studio after I moved provinces and now it's been a decade. I'm currently back in school looking to start a new career now that I'm done with the preschool aged kid at home thing, and I think one of my goals for myself once I'm all set in my new life routine 1-2 years from now I'm going to find another studio that does adult recreational classes and get back into it.
Ballet never leaves you 🩰🥀🤍
This made me cry. She even had the facial expressions. It's so sad how time ravages the body and mind.
Both of these videos always make me cry.
Madame Susu took the *Once a dancer, always a dancer* to a whole new level🥹. 🧛🏻♀️🖤🖤🖤
Very precious
Love when you post
Tears of joy, sublime❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
As a psychologist, we do have studies about this, I’m Brazilian so I don’t know if I can translate 100% but it’s what we call “non declarative memory”, which is something that we can “remember” in an unconscious way, so she hears the music and the body remembers the dance moves. its awesome actually ❤
🥰😢 so gorgeous. Thank you.
I was a caregiver specifically trained to work with clients who had Alzheimer’s/dementia/other memory problems. Music was my go-to tool with clients. Scientists are still trying to figure out the how and why of it, but music has been shown to help these people regain motor functions and improve their memory. It also tends to improve their mood.
I had one client I was with from 7pm-8am. They would get nightmares, so I’d sit outside their room and sing their favorite lullaby until they calmed down. Every morning we’d start off by singing “Good Morning” from Singin’ in the Rain. Brought a smile to their face every time and, sometimes, we’d even dance around a little. Music made them happy, made my job easier, and it was a huge source of bonding for us. Music is an incredibly powerful tool.
Music therapy is an amazing resource for everything from mental health, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, from premies, and those that are in a Vegetative state. We don't understand how it helps the brain to work, but it does. As a Pediatric homecare Nurse I encouraged my patients to do Music, hippo(ridding horses), and Aquatic therapy. Some of them got Acupuncture, or massage therapy, and Music would be a part of all of them.
This is beautiful ❤
I SENT THE SECOND ONE TO YOU AND I THOUGHT IT WAS SOOOO BEUTIFUL !!
seeing that video makes me cry every time!
How beautiful for her to return to those days when her mind n body obeyed her command.
Josephine I found the FULL video of the Chinese State Circus Swan Lake I’d love to see you react to the whole thing. Also could you try fitting a rhythmic gymnast and see what they can do en pointe like you’ve done figure skaters, Irish dancers etc?
muscle memory is why practice is so important!
*The video that made my dad suggest me to go into ballet and I LOVED IT*
I love this. I wish I had pushed through with Ballet. Was told my ankles were too weak for pointe, but no further teaching/coaching, so I walked away from it.