Ballerina with Alzheimer's listens to Swan Lake, memory of ballet comes back to her

[applegrove]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.classicfm.com/discover-music/periods-genres/ballet/new-york-dancer-alzheimers-remembers-swan-lake/



I could not figure out how to post video. It is near the bottom of the article. Something to behold.

[Leghorn21]

1. The most beautiful thing I've ever seen, apple, OMG. *MUST SEE, DU*

I used to play this song after my Mother died and HOWL LIKE AN ANIMAL

I fkn LOVE ballet, I LOVE Marta C. González, I LOVE ballet, I LOVE Tchaikovsky, I LOVED my Mother, and now I LOVE YOU for posting this, applegrove

[applegrove]

4. They usually have a great story on humanity at the end of the National

on CBC News. I love ballet too. I love older people. Never heard of her as i did not really follow ballet, just a canadian dancer or two. Here is my favourite ballet video:

[Leghorn21]

6. Oh, this is just magnificent, apple, thank you yet again!! -- I was thinking at the end, HEY Y'ALL,

I NEED TO HEAR SOME CLAPPING!!! - and a comment (from 9 years ago!!) said,

“Actually, you can't hear it well but it got standing ovation after standing ovation!! They finally had to ask Evelyn and David to ask the audience for no more cheers!! Wonderful piece!!“

Whew, good, they had it comin!!!

[Bayard]

7. I enjoyed that mightily!

Thanks for posting.

[Leghorn21]

2. Look, somebody posted this tweet in the article!!

Marta González, former Prima Ballerina with Alzheimers listens to Swan Lake by Tchaikovsky and remembers and feels the choreography again - simply beautiful.
🎥 Música Para Despertar

Link to tweet

❤️❤️❤️

[Bayard]

8. Was this actually her dancing in the clips?

[applegrove]

9. Yes. From the mid sixties.

[Bayard]

11. Beautiful....

She was exquisite.

[FM123]

3. Oh my heart. I'm crying.

Musical memory lasts long after every thing else fades.

[flotsam]

10. And that is why someday in the not to distant future

A nurse will play Elton John's "Tiny Dancer" and I will plead with her to undress...

[Laffy Kat]

5. One of the most touching moments I have ever seen. nt

[North Shore Chicago]

12. Damn Alzheimers!

To lose your greatness, to lose everything. So pleased to see her twinkle of memory, simply magnificent!