102-year-old woman sees her younger self dancing on film for the first time ever

Alice Barker is 102 years old.

102-year-old woman sees her younger self dancing on film for the first time ever

Back in the 1930s and 1940s, Alice was a chorus-line dancer in the Harlem Resistance and danced in clubs such as the Apollo and Zanzibar Club with legends like Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly.

And while throughout her successful career as a dancer that saw her dance in TV shows and ads, Alice had never seen herself dance.

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