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John Lowe is flying through the air on a home-made trapeze at his bungalow. His stockinged legs are straight out behind him, his lips clamped in concentration. As he lands, he grins from ear to ear, a naughty, impish grin, as if having an audience is just the thing he thrives on. \u2018The grandchildren love having a go on this, You can imagine. But my children have told me to slow up\u2019. \u2018They\u2019ve forbidden me from doing 360-degree turns on it now. They\u2019re worried that if I fall off, no one will find me. They\u2019re probably right.\u2019 It\u2019s only natural that Lowe\u2019s children urge him to take precautions during his ballet sessions. At 91, he is surely Britain\u2019s oldest practising ballet dancer.Aside from the trapeze, there is a ballet bar lining one wall and roller skates in the corner. There are also photographs of his four children and 11 grandchildren, mementoes of his Second World War days, a painting of his adored wife Catherine who died suddenly 25 years ago, and the kind of high-backed chair that people favour in their advancing years. And the secret to his ballet dancing at 91? \u2018I think because of my upbringing \u2013 two rooms, four families using one lavatory, no bathroom, my mother cooking in a 6ft square corridor, heading up and down two flights of stairs for water \u2013 that helped me to survive.\u2019 \u2018And, of course, being active. I go roller-skating in here round and round like a mouse in a cage. I move the furniture to do my ballet turns\u2019. \u2018I can get four in, if I cross the room diagonally\u2019. <\/p>\n
\nFor More Updates, follow us on At 91 John Lowe built his own trapeze and has three ballet classes a week, although he admits he can\u2019t jump as high as some younger students. John Lowe is flying through the air on a home-made trapeze at his bungalow. His stockinged legs are straight out behind him, his lips clamped in concentration. As […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Facebook\"](\"http:\/\/cms.nagalandpost.com\/newsimages\/PhotosCollection\/BKDWMJOIYQWKXUNDBKXF.png\")
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