Lois O'Hara
Jul. 7th, 2016 07:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lauradi7dwI sometimes (including a couple of days ago) tell stories to friends about the enduring part of life that tap dancing can be for people. A number of the old vaudevillians kept dancing and teaching until they died - a little slower, a little lower to the ground, maybe smoother instead staccato, but still dancing. Local all-round
tap person Lois O'Hara (student, performer, supporter of professional dancers, worker at the Dance Inn) had been tapping for twenty years or so when she was diagnosed with lung disease (I don't know and never asked specifics). In the time since, she has continued to dance, often with a small backpack holding the oxygen tank and a cannula in her nose. She cut back, she slowed down, but she kept dancing almost until the end. She died on Sunday, and will be much missed.
tap person Lois O'Hara (student, performer, supporter of professional dancers, worker at the Dance Inn) had been tapping for twenty years or so when she was diagnosed with lung disease (I don't know and never asked specifics). In the time since, she has continued to dance, often with a small backpack holding the oxygen tank and a cannula in her nose. She cut back, she slowed down, but she kept dancing almost until the end. She died on Sunday, and will be much missed.
