![]() ![]() The post also comprised the original video, that featured the same beautiful ballerina dancer sporting an all-white ensemble and performing the act. She at first couldn’t remember her steps, but as the beats tickle her ear, she reckons the music and moves her hands, seated in the wheelchair.Īs the music plays, the elderly woman is seen performing the ballerina steps with her hands, just like she used to in her youth. In the video, the elderly lady who suffers from Alzheimer’s is shown seated on a wheelchair wearing a headset, and as a person sitting next to her makes her listen to ‘Swan Lake’, which reminds her of her older days. The ‘Bhaag Milkha Bhaag’ star posted a clip on Instagram of the late ballerina dancer, and said the clip “is the most beautiful thing you will see today.” Marta C Gonzalez, who died in 2019, is shown sitting in her wheelchair at a care home in Valencia.Ī post shared by Farhan Akhtar on at 9:17pm PST □□□□□□❤️ This is the incredible moment a former prima ballerina suffering with Alzheimer’s is transformed when she hears the music from Swan Lake. This video was forwarded to me and I thank the person who created it and shared it with the rest of the world. ![]() Studies have suggested that music has emotional and behavioral benefits for people with Alzheimer’s disease.This is the most beautiful thing you will see today. They are alive, they are full of memories, full of emotions and they can still move everyone. Olmedo added that people with Alzheimer’s are “very much alive until their last days. But as she listened to Swan Lake, that was the first song she listened to, and it seems like part of her mind traveled to another moment of her life,” recalled Olmedo. ![]() “The day when we met her, she appeared sad, nervous at times, and we didn’t know how effective this would be. Secreenshot from the Musica para Despertar video They searched for the songs she’d danced on when she was younger, which they found from her writings in the past recounting the songs. Musica para Despertar psychologist and director Pepe Olmedo said in an interviewwith Brut America that Marta-who was principal dancer, choreographer and director of her own ballet ensemble in New York-was one of the patients approached by the organization, as they thought her case could be interesting. In the three-minute video, Marta’s dancing to the ballet’s music was interspersed with archival footage of Russian ballerina Uliana Lopatkina dancing to the solo piece The Dying Swan composed by Camille Saint-Saens from his piece Carnival of the Animals, as reported by NPR. Secreenshots from the Musica para Despertar video (According to writer and dance critic Alastair Macaulay, Marta was moving in generalized Swan Lake style, and not a specific choreography from Swan Lake.) Marta Gonzalez Saldaña dances to Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake theme. Quickly after, Marta, who reportedly founded and directed her own ballet ensemble in New York, started gracefully moving her arms, coupled with her storytelling facial expressions. The heartrending video starts with a man turning on Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake theme from a smartphone as Marta gestures for him to turn up the volume. She passed away shortly after the video was filmed. Gonzalez Saldaña, a former ballerina known as Marta Cinta, which was recorded in 2019 in a nursing home in Alicante in Valencia, Spain. The power of music truly moves the human spirit and it was captured in a now viral video of how a former ballerina, who was suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, reacted when she heard Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake theme, one of the songs she danced to in the past.Īsosacion Musica para Despertar, a Spanish organization that promotes the use of music as therapy against dementia and various mental illnesses, recently released the video of Marta C. ![]()
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