--- title: This Video of an Old Man Dancing Will Brighten Your Day description: This old fella may need two canes to walk but he doesn't need them to dance. canonical: https://time.com/3012697/this-video-of-an-old-man-dancing-will-brighten-your-day/ author: Denver Nicks article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-07-21T16:12:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:11:49.160Z og:title: Watch This Old Man Boogie Down, and You'll Be Smiling All Day og:description: This old fella may need two canes to walk but he doesn't need them to dance. og:url: https://time.com/3012697/this-video-of-an-old-man-dancing-will-brighten-your-day/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch This Old Man Boogie Down, and You'll Be Smiling All Day twitter:description: This old fella may need two canes to walk but he doesn't need them to dance. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Video of an Old Man Dancing Will Brighten Your Day  by [Denver Nicks](https://time.com/author/denver-nicks/)  ## Denver Nicks Jul 21, 2014 4:12 PM UTC  by [Denver Nicks](https://time.com/author/denver-nicks/)  ## Denver Nicks Jul 21, 2014 4:12 PM UTC The elderly man in this video may need two canes to walk, but he doesn’t need them to dance. The user who uploaded this video to Facebook, Edgard Eleuterio Daza, gave it a short and sweet caption that sums the whole thing up pretty well: “Eternamente joven.” Translation: forever young. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3012697/this-video-of-an-old-man-dancing-will-brighten-your-day/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3012697/this-video-of-an-old-man-dancing-will-brighten-your-day/"},"headline":"This Video of an Old Man Dancing Will Brighten Your Day","datePublished":"2014-07-21T16:12:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:11:49.160Z","description":"Forever young","url":"https://time.com/3012697/this-video-of-an-old-man-dancing-will-brighten-your-day/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Ukraine","facebook","Gaza and the West Bank","Viral video","Gaza","dancing","#MH17"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Denver Nicks","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/denver-nicks/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3012697/this-video-of-an-old-man-dancing-will-brighten-your-day/","name":"This Video of an Old Man Dancing Will Brighten Your Day"}}]}] ```