Tao Porchon-Lynch, A 96-Year-Old Dancer, Sashays And Shimmies Like Someone 70 Years Her Junior [Video]

If Tao Porchon-Lynch can’t cheer you up, then there’s nothing anyone can do for you.

She appeared on America’s Got Talent Tuesday night and showed off some pretty saucy dance moves with a sexy young man. What makes that so special is the fact that she is a 96-year-old dancer.

When asked by host Nick Cannon, she made sure to note she’ll turn 97 in August.

Porchon-Lynch has led a storied life. She was friends with Marilyn Monroe, marched with Gandhi, was born in French India, and enjoyed a modeling career in Europe, People reported. And at 96, she’s also the world’s oldest yoga teacher.

Which likely accounts for her fancy footwork and flexibility.

For her audition, Porchon-Lynch impressed with a ballroom routine, which she performed with a 26-year-old dancer named Vard. He seemed a little smitten with the youthful woman on his arm, dressed to the nines in a sparkling gown that revealed her long legs. (In her youth, they won a “Longest Legs in Europe” contest)

Vard told the judges that he met the 96-year old six years ago when she sauntered into his mamba class, NBC New York reported. The pair danced to Pitbull’s “Fireball,” and she sashayed her hips (both of which have been replaced, one at least twice), kicked out those famous legs as she was spun in a circle and carried on her partner’s back.

Needless to say, the judges were wowed by her talent and her demeanor–Tao, with her serene smile, has a persona much younger than her age. The audience was also enraptured by the dancer, and gave her a standing ovation when she finished her routine.

“Nothing is impossible. Inside of us is the power to do anything,” the dancer said, according to the New York Post.

Tao has only been dancing competitively since she was 84 and has won hundreds of first place ribbons. Not only is she a practitioner of yoga, she’s also a vegetarian, and doesn’t take any medicines or supplements.

The 96-year-old’s story sounds like something out of a movie. Born in Pondicherry, a French territory in India, she moved to France in the 1920s, where she “helped my aunt hide refugees fleeing the Nazis.” She fled to England and kept working for the Resistance.

When the war was over, she became a model (winning the aforementioned award for her amazing stems), then came to the U.S. and signed with MGM. She even taught yoga to Cesar Romero and Burgess Meredith, among other actors.

It’s perhaps her adventurous life that made her audition on America’s Got Talent absolutely no big deal. She wasn’t even nervous.

“I don’t let anything get the best of me.”

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