Ballet Rambert's Sara Luzita, 100, still dancing at Ely care home

A erstwhile Ballet Rambert dancer has shown chap attraction location residents a fewer moves astatine the property of 100.

Sara Lemkow (nee Luzita) toured Europe, performed successful the West End and featured successful films including the archetypal 1952 Moulin Rouge.

On Saturday, she demonstrated flamenco dancing successful beforehand of residents during an workout people astatine The Orchards successful Ely, Cambridgeshire.

Her girl said "joie de vivre" kept her parent "young astatine heart".

Ms Lemkow was calved successful Hanley, Staffordshire, earlier increasing up successful Brighton successful East Sussex.

She said her parent encouraged her to creation from the property of four, earlier she trained successful London, and past specialised successful accepted Spanish and flamenco dancing.

She joined Norwegian histrion Tutte Lemkow - who played the Fiddler successful the 1971 movie philharmonic Fiddler connected the Roof - and she became an antiques trader successful London pursuing her dancing career.

She inactive has her woody castanets from astir 80 years agone and tin still, conscionable about, rise her limb to her head.

"Once a lad walked up and said 'you can't assistance your limb up to your head' and I said 'I can' and I did," she remembered.

Rachel Peacock said it "brought a lump to my throat" erstwhile the castanets were enactment successful Sara's manus and she started playing them on to the flamenco music.

"She's inactive got it... the arm-ography, timing and her charisma," she said.

"I deliberation her determination, joie de vivre and consciousness of humour person kept her young astatine heart.

"She said to maine erstwhile 'never spell grey'."