The most beautiful video you'll see today!

[kpete]

NYC Prima Ballerina with Alzheimer’s listens to Swan Lake and it all comes back ✨ The most beautiful video you’ll see today! 🎵❤️🩰⠀
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Spaniard ballerina Marta C. Gonzalez Valencia 2019 - Swan Lake by Tchaikovsky
@nycballet
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[ananda]

1. That was so beautiful!

Sweet!

[spicysista]

2. So beautiful!

Thanks for sharing such a beautiful post, kpete.

[nocoincidences]

3. For a second I thought her wings

would lift her up from the chair!

How beautiful!

[secondwind]

4. This gave me the chills.............. wow, just WOW!

[still_one]

5. how bitter sweet

[sheshe2]

6. Beautiful

[peacebuzzard]

7. music speaks to gods and goddesses.

the lovely lady is a goddess.

[malaise]

8. In tears - youtube version

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[3catwoman3]

15. I wonder who the young man is.

Family? A caretaker?

[malaise]

18. I was hoping grandson or great grandson

Stunningly beautiful

[3catwoman3]

40. Whoever he is, the tenderness he shows to her...

...is very moving.

[malaise]

41. I sent it to all my siblings and friends

Mom would have loved that

[Blue Owl]

9. Wow, she still OWNS that thing!

I've always loved Tchaikovsky's ballet scores, they are among the most vivid and evocative...

[brer cat]

10. Beautiful and bittersweet.

I hope she will keep that memory alive.

[BusyBeingBest]

11. Still graceful--that muscle memory is still there, as well as her

memory of the music.

[Solly Mack]

12. The human divine. I'm in tears.

Brava!

[3catwoman3]

13. Well, if that doesn't rip your heart...

...right out, then you don’t have one.

[BarbD]

14. Because music touches the soul, it is never lost.

[3catwoman3]

16. Can anyone translate the Spanish...

...in the YouTube version in post #8?

[Biophilic]

17. And the grace, beauty, and story still live within her. Oh, my. That was amazing.

[abakan]

19. If that doesn't make you cry

nothing will. Just beautiful.

[patphil]

54. My sentiment exactly.

[keithbvadu2]

20. Damn onions!

[birdographer]

21. Wow

The power of music.

[yonder]

22. This grumpy old guy is all tight in the throat.

The OP is right - this is a beautiful clip. The grace in her hands and arms is still undeniably there and if whatever is grounding her to the chair wasn't there, her whole self would be soaring gracefully as well.

[riverwalker]

23. Had me bawling

Beautiful.

[bronxiteforever]

24. K&R. thanks kpete! A few years ago my Mom with Alzheimer's

& practically non verbal, watched the King and I with me. She sang every word. It is incredible and so moving.

[Spazito]

44. Wow...

Amazing and beautiful!

[iluvtennis]

25. Simply beautiful and those aren't tears in my eyes

happy

[RVN VET71]

71. Mine neither.

Beautiful! Watching as it all came back, however briefly, the lessons, the practice, the triumphant performances, the grace and flowing beauty of movement. A brigadoon-like moment of momentary revival, resurrection . . .

Sorry, I was having a moment there. Got carried away.

[iluvtennis]

76. No worries on getting carried away - I love your elaboration.

[riverwalker]

26. More on the organization

She passed away in 2019.

https://www.unilad.co.uk/life/former-ballerina-with-alzheimers-listens-to-swan-lake-and-starts-dancing-again/

[nuxvomica]

27. Reminds me of "The Music Never Stopped"

A real gem of a movie. Treat yourself to it some time, especially if you're a Grateful Dead fan.

[Lonestarblue]

28. The human spirit is a marvelous thing.

Alzheimers is such a cruel disease. I hope researchers can soon find a way to treat or reverse it.

We humans need music and beauty to sustain us. That was wonderful!

[panader0]

29. Wow, that really got to me--thanks.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

30. from a related article...

Last year England’s Health Secretary said dance sessions should be prescribed to more dementia patients, to prevent ‘over-medicalised’ treatment.

A study found that giving patients personal music playlists resulted in a 60 per cent reduction in the need for medication.

A number of other studies have shown how music can benefit those suffering from not only memory loss syndrome, but other physical conditions too.

Marta C. González has sadly now passed away. But the beauty of her art lives on, continuing to bring light in darker times.

[MerryBlooms]

31. R&K Thank you.

[PlanetBev]

32. OMG, tears rolling down my cheeks right now

DU sure knows how to bring the onions 🧅.

[packman]

33. The human spirit

Tears here

[marble falls]

34. It wasn't supposed to be my day for blubbering.

[gademocrat7]

35. Magnificent!

So very inspirational.

[TygrBright]

36. Tears....

...my mother, who has a non-Alzheimers form of dementia affecting short-term memory, was almost able to function normally before the pandemic and I attribute that in part to her participation in the Giving Voice chorus.

They had to stop due to the pandemic, but are trying out a "Virtual" version... hoping we can get Mom back to singing with them if it's at all possible, but the technology is very difficult for her.

sadly,
Bright

[homegirl]

37. Thank you...

After the sadness of the last four years, the confinement and fear of this year, the loss of a sibling...this made me finally, cry.

Tears can be a joyous release...

[lillypaddle]

38. Her hands are so long and graceful

Just beautiful.

[sarge43]

39. A beautiful courageous heart never grows old

Bless whoever gave her that moment.



/on edit/ Thank you kpete.

[Spazito]

42. I am bawling like a baby...

Her incredible grace exhibited even as she can only use her arms and hands.

Beautiful, beyond beautiful.

[lettucebe]

43. My mother has advanced Alzheimer's. I was bawling at 21 seconds in

[Fla Dem]

45. Beautiful and touching.

[barbtries]

46. music inhabits a different part of the brain.

she still has that part.

when my mother had a devastating stroke and was aphasic, i read that in a book, and it was confirmed on my 25th birthday, as she joined in for "happy birthday."

[blueinredohio]

47. Beautiful, brought tears to my eyes.

[lunatica]

48. There must be a hint there for the way to find a cure.

She was talking to the young man about ballet movements, and it seemed she would get sad again when she spoke of when the movement of the legs was called for.

This made me sob. My mother had Dementia.

[NoMoreRepugs]

49. Imagine the pure elation she must have felt in her heart. Fantastic!

[cab67]

50. I hit rec, and then undo,

just so I could hit rec again.

[pazzyanne]

51. Music, the language of the soul! nt

[OneBlueSky]

52. wow!!! . . . God bless this beautiful woman! . . .

and God bless Tchaikovsky for the beautiful music . . .

[cp]

53. Beautiful

Human spirit still within, brought me to tears. A dear friend has this disease and I know he is still there.
Thank you!

[Sogo]

55. So very moving....

Tears.

[Baked Potato]

56. So sweet ... Thanks..

[Mazeltov Cocktail]

57. Thank you for posting this...

So extraordinarily beautiful, now and in her past life.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

58. Oh! My heart!!! ♥️

[cayugafalls]

59. Well, that just touched my soul...so beautiful.

[BobTheSubgenius]

60. That was so heart-warming! And not least because there is a recording of it.

I hope her survivors have some nice memories because of that.

The second-last time I saw my mother, she pointed a very shaky index finger at me and fought to say "Coupons."

The last time I saw her, she didn't seem to know who I was.

[Hekate]

61. Just tears for the sublime beauty that still lives inside here

[rustysgurl]

62. Just beautiful ... I am in tears.

In the mind of that amazing, beautiful woman, she is in her costume, gliding across the stage, toes pointed, hitting every position, feeling every note of the music.

Simply incredible.

[magicarpet]

63. Love and devotion to her chosen craft imprinted in her DNA.

Moving,... Thank You for sharing.

[coeur_de_lion]

64. Beautiful!

[Fla Dem]

65. K&R

[warmfeet]

66. The value of humanity demonstrated here.

Beautiful and very moving.

[Sherman A1]

67. K&R

[calclar]

68. MY MOTHER DIED OF ALZHEIMERS LAST YEAR AND WAS....

...MY MUSIC TEACHER FROM AN EARLY AGE. SHE WAS ALSO A CONDUCTOR AND RESPONDED THE SAME WAY WHENEVER A PIECE OF CLASSICAL MUSIC WAS PLAYED FOR HER! I CRIED FOR HER AFTER SEEING AND HEARING THIS. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

[area51]

70. Welcome to DU.

[calclar]

75. THANK YOU

[LAS14]

69. Thanks so much!!!! nt

[sellitman]

72. My Dad passed away this past year and he had Parkinsons

At times he didn't know me or where he was but he could remember with vivid detail his time in the Military in WW2. The mind is a strange thing indeed. This made me smile. Thanks for sharing.

[nolabear]

73. Art. ❤️

[Ahpook]

74. Wow

My mom is going through this now, and I am the one taking care of her. It is so hard!

There are two houses on the property, and I bring her out a few times a week for "music night" where we listen to her favorite tunes from the 70's. She knows all the vocals

Fuck, I hate this disease!

Her favorite is still Carole King. She listened to this song over and over after she left my dad who abused her with guns to her head, verbal abuse and cigarette burns.

She scooped up my brother and I and boogied in the middle of the night, found a job and kept us safe

[ZZenith]

78. Your mom has earned some stars in her crown.

She found her strength when she most needed to, and now you are returning the favor.

[Ahpook]

82. Thank you

She is like a child! So happy and free, like a little girl again No worry with bills or time restraints.

I'm not building it to something it is not, but she loves everything. Happy all day.

I hope it stays this way!

[KT2000]

77. She lived that part

through practice and performance. It is a highway in her brain that the music brought to life again. Just beautiful.

[diverdownjt]

79. Her eyes became so clear and bright while she was in the zone.....

My eyes...well I cant see right now...

[skip fox]

80. This breaks my heart and puts it together again.

Thanks for the light this morning.

[mdbl]

81. awesome

[albacore]

83. Hmmm... I seem to have gotten some dust in my eyes.....nt