But when you do that at 80 – and pirouette into the record books as the country’s oldest ballet dancer – it is all the sweeter. Any dancer would be delighted to pass a top exam from a world-renowned ballet school. But when you do that at 80 – and get into the record books as the country’s oldest ballet dancer – it is all the sweeter. ‘It told me I had passed with merit the grade seven exam and have become the country’s oldest ballet dancer,’ she said. Mrs Peters took her first dance exam at nine (pictured left a year later aged 10 in 1948).

Source: Daily Mail January 14, 2018 21:56 UTC