Almost 80-year-old ballet dancer finds way to live out her dream

Fay Richardson is the oldest dancer in her class, as well as in her dance school, and her instructor calls her an inspiration to all the students that everyone can dance, no matter at what level.

 

Ballet dance movement always fascinate Fay Richardson At the age of 79 she is living out her childhood dream and being the oldest dancer at the Youth Ballet and Contemporary Dance of Saskatchewan, a Regina-based dance school.

She admits it that she isn’t as speedy compares to other dancers.She began dancing as an adult at the age of 45, enjoyed the motions of ballet and yes thoughts about quitting come but each time fellow students encouraged her ”

Fay Richardson
The encouragement from her fellow dancers fills Richardson with emotion.”It’s also special in the way that the others don’t say give up, or get out and let us show off at a better level. They bring me to their level, somehow.”

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