No more Tao: 96-year-old dancer won't reappear on 'AGT'

Despite being met with uproarious applause, a standing ovation and four unanimous “yes” votes from the judges, you won’t be seeing White Plains’ 96-year-old ballroom dancer Tao Porchon-Lynch on “America’s Got Talent” again.

“Even yesterday I saw someone in Trader Joe’s market and he was so thrilled that he comes running over (and asks), ‘When will you be on the next one?’” says Porchon-Lynch, aftering she appeared on the hit NBC reality show. “I must have ten (people) a day saying, ‘When? When? When?’”

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However, Porchon-Lynch’s performance, a lively dance routine set to Pitbull’s “Fireball,” which aired June 9, was a one-time appearance and not a traditional audition, she says. She was never vying for a spot in the show's subsequent rounds.

“I was just asked to appear on it … The judges didn’t even know that I was not competing,” Porchon-Lynch, who turns 97 in August, explains.

See video of the performance below

It's clear the judges thought Porchon-Lynch was in competition, considering how enthusiastically they voted to advance her to the next round.

"Seeing a 96-year-old dancing with somebody 70 years younger is just too mind-blowing for words," judge Howard Stern said after the performance, for which Porchon-Lynch was joined by her 26-year-old dance-instructor-turned-partner Vard Margaryan. "I love it."

Melanie "Mel B." Brown called the act "inspiring" and Heidi Klum jokingly accused Porchon-Lynch of raiding her wardrobe for the outfit she wore in the routine — a sparkling silver dress and cherry red high heels.

"I don't think America will like them; I think America will love them," Howie Mandel added.

It seems Mandel was right, considering the outpouring of support Porchon-Lynch was shown on social media after her dance, with the hashtag #youngatheart spreading across twitter.

Porchon-Lynch, who holds the Guinness record for the world's oldest yoga instructor, has only been dancing since she was 85, she told The Journal News before her episode aired.

"Nothing is impossible," she said in early June. "Inside of us is the power to do anything."

"America's Got Talent" airs 8 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday nights on NBC.

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