People dance at any age.

Taken at face value, the line asserts that dance is not the exclusive province of youth or elite professionals but a human impulse available across the lifespan. Coming from Baryshnikov—whose career spans virtuoso classical roles, modern dance, acting, and later-life performance—it can be read as a quiet rebuttal to the ballet world’s age limits and to cultural assumptions that physical expressiveness must fade with time. The statement also implies that dance is broader than technical feats: it includes social dancing, improvisation, and embodied joy, all of which can persist even as the body changes. In that sense, it reframes dance as a lifelong practice of presence and vitality rather than a temporary athletic peak.