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John Lowe, a war veteran, is about to perform on stage as the world’s oldest ballet dancer.
At the 1)grand old age of 90, John Lowe will join dancers from the 2)Lantern Dance Theatre Company―who are more than half his age for a performance of 3)Strauss’s An Artist’s Life.
The Grandfather to 11, John Lowe, of 4)Witchford, only 5)took up ballet having watched his daughter, Alison, become a professional dancer when he was 79. And at the age of 88, he 6)starred in his first ballet production―performing as the woodcutter in 7)Prokofiev’s The Stone Flower.
John Lowe, who fought in Malaysia and India in the Second World War before being captured by the Japanese, said he loves performing on stage.
“Dancing is the most amazing feeling and you come home mentally uplifted after listening to all this brilliant music. It’s fantastic exercise too,” the retired art teacher said. “I think it’s a wonderful thing to do and I can’t understand why more men don’t do it. There’s nothing 8)effeminate about it―you have to be incredibly fit to dance. I see these people crawling around,9)hunched over smoking a cigarette―they should be doing ballet.”
To maintain his fitness, Mr Lowe has even installed a 10)trapeze on his living room ceiling and hangs from it each morning to increase his muscle power. He also practices three times a week in 11)Ely’s Chequer Studio, as well