DOREEN HAYES - Instructor, Doreen Hayes School of Dancing >> I love the costumes, the routines, the music.
[Close-up of female tap-dancing.]
DOREEN HAYES >> I'm actually happier on the stage than walking down say, Bloor Street or Yonge Street. It's fun for me.
[Doreen walks down Bloor Street and opens the door to her dance studio.]
DOREEN HAYES >> I opened in September, 1956. I opened here with one little room. I'm still here, same location. Fifty seven years I've been here now.
[Doreen shows the camera around the inside of her dance studio.]
DOREEN HAYES >> I don't know what else to do but dance.
[Older photos of Doreen teaching dancing throughout the years at her dance studio.]
DOREEN HAYES >> So, I took a chance and I started there teaching and slowly I got some pupils and it got a little bigger and a little bigger.
[Doreen teaches a group of young children how to dance in her studio.]
DOREEN HAYES >> Working with young kids in my eighties. It's a lot of fun for me. I have children start dancing here at three years old and I've got some that are now up to fifteen - they're still with me.
[A few more photos of Doreen dancing through the years, along with her sitting proud in her dance studio now.]
DOREEN HAYES >> I'm proud of what I have accomplished. Us seniors - if you don't keep active, they should keep their feet going and their arms going and anything and don't give in if your legs get a little sore.
[Doreen ends her class, and turns out the lights.]
DOREEN HAYES >> My name is Doreen Hayes and I'm an active senior.
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