11th ODC Video Theres No Age For Dancing
Music and Dance • 5m 3s
Directed by Online Dance Company
It could be a love and tenderness story between a grandfather and his grandson, in fact, it’s not that different. This film reunites the “tap dance’s father", Michel, and one of the greatest hopes in dancing, Francisco. On stage, Michel nullifies gravity in timeless light dance, in tap moves that quiet his age. Francisco moves with a maturity not yet suited, with confident and infallible coordination’s, full of emotion. Together, they dethrone patterns and prejudices in a prolonged applause showing their mutual admiration, underlining the greatest lesson of all: there is no age for dancing.
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