Photo: Paul Hampartsoumian
A dance company in the UK is challenging the perceptions that dance is the domain of the young.
The Company of Elders is performance group for non-professional dancers aged over 60, that set up by renown dance organisation Sadler's Wells in 1989.
Back then it was an arts club for older adults, with workshops held with visiting companies and the odd performance.
But as interest grew, it became a performance group in its own right in 1992.
Company members will take to the stage next month for the Elixir Festival in a new work called The Exchange, where they'll join in a hip-hop influenced performance alongside members of ZooNation Youth Company - a company of dancers from the other end of the age spectrum.
Kathryn speaks with Elaine Foley, projects manager learning and engagement at Sadler's Wells and Jennifer James, one of the company's members.
