The video of an ex-ballerina, suffering from Alzheimer's, moves Internet users

The “Swan Lake” by the Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House in London in 2020. -

The images are overwhelming.

At the end of October, the Spanish association Música para despertar, (in French "La musique pour éveiller"), which helps people with neurodegenarative diseases, published on YouTube a video in which a former ballet dancer, suffering from Alzheimer's disease, listening, headphones on, an excerpt from

the Russian composer Tchaikovsky.

From the first notes, Marta C. González, a former Spanish ballerina known as Marta Cinta, immediately remembers the choreography.

Visibly moved, the old lady in a wheelchair makes a few movements.

In parallel, a recent video of a ballerina highlights the accuracy of Marta C. González's execution.

"Musical memory and the ability to feel emotions are the last attributes of a brain injured by Alzheimer's to disappear", explains the association on its site.

At the end of the sequence shot in 2019, the ex-ballerina, now deceased, explains how to place points in classical dance.

This video, which has gone viral on social networks, moves Internet users a lot.

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