No matter what we may encounter on our life’s journey, let us keep our hearts light and our spirits free.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Swan Lake
A touching video depicts a moment when a former prima ballerina with Alzheimer’s remembered the Swan Lake choreography while listening to music.
Marta C. Gonzalez, who died in 2019, was filmed sitting in a wheelchair in a nursing home in Valencia. Miss Gonzalez was a prima ballerina at the New York Ballet in the 1960s.
She reacted to the music instinctively, recalling the choreography she performed in the midst of her professional dance career. The video shows her hands moving to reconstruct the choreography she performed on stage in 1967.
Watch the clip below:
