Looking pretty in a delicate shade of blush, dads and granddads donned frilly tutus and bared some seriously hairy legs to dance their version of the popular classical ballet Swan Lake for the annual i-dance concert.
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The group of 10, whose children and grandchildren are all dancers at the Oak Flats studio, have been working on their arabesques and pirouette for eight weeks in the lead-up to the big event at the Illawarra Performing Arts Centre.
Tony Purdon, a former child dancer, said it was a positive sign that males had an opportunity to participate in the concert, which had traditionally been the domain of mothers.
"It's a really good chance for men to link into the dance community," he said. "It's a great social network and the kids get a real kick out of it."
Mr Purdon, president of the Wollongong Eisteddfod, is the 1966 Junior Tap Champion of the same organisation. He said that while there was an element of fun to the dance, the aim was for them to step in time and look good.
"For a group of men, who mostly haven't danced at all, we didn't look half bad," he said.
I-dance owner Rachael Barker said the segment, now in its fifth year, had fast become popular.
After dancing Swan Lake the men, Stuart Jones, Jason Bonney, Steve Podmore, Michael Baker, Tony Purdon, David Cesare, Anthony Portelli, Andrew Day, Anthony Cadden and Sean Jeffery, then shook to the beat of a Taylor Swift jazz number.
"The kids just loved it, they think it's hilarious," Ms Barker said. "Although some are a bit embarrassed about their fathers being up on stage at the end of the performance they always get the biggest cheer."