Amazing video - Former Prima Ballerina with Alzheimer's is played excerpt from Swan Lake

[Jonny]

Get a large box of tissues ready as this is an amazing video. I'm still in bits after watching it.

Briefly - This lady, Marta C. Gonzalez Valencia, was once a Prima Ballerina and in later life suffered from Alzheimer's.

She was played an excerpt from Swan Lake and it triggered long-dormant memories of when she used to perform the piece in venues around the world. The cut-in sections are actually her dancing the role in New York in the 60s .

So terribly sad and yet so wonderfully uplifting too.

 

[Hannah F]

Get a large box of tissues ready as this is an amazing video. I'm still in bits after watching it.

Briefly - This lady, Marta C. Gonzalez Valencia, was a once a prima ballerina and in later life suffered from Dementia.

She was played this excerpt from Swan Lake and it triggered long-dormant memories of when she used to perform the piece in venues around the world. The cut-in sections are actually her dancing the role in New York in the 60s .

So terribly sad and yet so wonderfully uplifting too.

Definitely need the tissues! Her expression at the end (an awareness of loss?) is gut-renching!

 

[Jonny]

an awareness of loss?)

I got the same impression Hannah. There definitely seemed to be a recollection of something more than just the music.

 

[Katie-Ellen]

She is really feeling it. She is there again. The hands are amazing, bony but graceful as wings, and her face. Totally in the moment.

 

[Steve C]

Wow!

 

[Emily]

I saw this yesterday and have watched it a few times since. It's extraordinary

 

[Victoria Bastedo]

How beautiful she is, both in the past and in the video!

 

[CageSage]

The stories we live, live forever within us forever.
That is so beautiful. So compelling.