My grandmother, Millie Cruzat was a Smithsoniam museum honoree, History Maker, professional dancer, stretch & posture coach, street name inductee, model, mother, wife and Chicago community advocate for a healthy lifestyle. Millie lived by the idea that staying mobile throughout the lifespan will increase your lifespan and its quality of it. She lead her life on the pillar of always being her “authentic self”, holding her head high with a beautiful posture, and inspired all by her intangible true grace and poise. She started her career as a dancer in New York, where she later performed in the famous “Shuffle Along”, the first all-Black hit Broadway show. At the noteworthy age of 50, she was asked to join the prestigious professional dance company: Joseph Holmes Dance Theater. A believer that stretching, mobility, and a healthy lifestyle increased her lifespan, in 1983, Millie opened the “Millie Cruzat total Fitness Center”. She then began her stint as an instructor of ballet at Beethoven Elementary School in Chicago, and at the age of 89 she became an instructor for Chicago Contemporary Dance Theater where she taught ballet and posture training to young girls. Until the age of 94 years, Millie taught stretching and mobility classes in her living room to people of vast ages 5-80 years old. She passed her values of stretching on to her 3 kids, and grandkids. Upon her transition in late 2021, she left behind her a Chicago street name, the 2021 Cultural Hero Award, and an unforgettable legacy that her children, grandchildren, and loved ones gracefully live on.