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NYC Prima Ballerina with Alzheimers listens to Swan Lake and it all comes back ✨ The most beautiful video youll see today! 🎵❤️🩰⠀
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Spaniard ballerina Marta C. Gonzalez Valencia 2019 - Swan Lake by Tchaikovsky
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ananda
(28,866 posts)Sweet!
spicysista
(1,663 posts)Thanks for sharing such a beautiful post, kpete.
nocoincidences
(2,220 posts)would lift her up from the chair!
How beautiful!
secondwind
(16,903 posts)still_one
(92,219 posts)sheshe2
(83,791 posts)peacebuzzard
(5,175 posts)the lovely lady is a goddess.
malaise
(269,056 posts)3catwoman3
(24,007 posts)Family? A caretaker?
malaise
(269,056 posts)Stunningly beautiful
3catwoman3
(24,007 posts)...is very moving.
malaise
(269,056 posts)Mom would have loved that
Blue Owl
(50,427 posts)I've always loved Tchaikovsky's ballet scores, they are among the most vivid and evocative...
brer cat
(24,578 posts)I hope she will keep that memory alive.
BusyBeingBest
(8,054 posts)memory of the music.
Solly Mack
(90,773 posts)Brava!
3catwoman3
(24,007 posts)...right out, then you dont have one.
BarbD
(1,193 posts)3catwoman3
(24,007 posts)...in the YouTube version in post #8?
Biophilic
(3,666 posts)abakan
(1,819 posts)nothing will. Just beautiful.
patphil
(6,182 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,829 posts)birdographer
(1,331 posts)The power of music.
yonder
(9,667 posts)The OP is right - this is a beautiful clip. The grace in her hands and arms is still undeniably there and if whatever is grounding her to the chair wasn't there, her whole self would be soaring gracefully as well.
riverwalker
(8,694 posts)Beautiful.
bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)& practically non verbal, watched the King and I with me. She sang every word. It is incredible and so moving.
Spazito
(50,365 posts)Amazing and beautiful!
iluvtennis
(19,863 posts)happy
RVN VET71
(2,692 posts)Beautiful! Watching as it all came back, however briefly, the lessons, the practice, the triumphant performances, the grace and flowing beauty of movement. A brigadoon-like moment of momentary revival, resurrection . . .
Sorry, I was having a moment there. Got carried away.
iluvtennis
(19,863 posts)riverwalker
(8,694 posts)nuxvomica
(12,430 posts)A real gem of a movie. Treat yourself to it some time, especially if you're a Grateful Dead fan.
Lonestarblue
(10,012 posts)Alzheimers is such a cruel disease. I hope researchers can soon find a way to treat or reverse it.
We humans need music and beauty to sustain us. That was wonderful!
panader0
(25,816 posts)SleeplessinSoCal
(9,123 posts)Last year Englands Health Secretary said dance sessions should be prescribed to more dementia patients, to prevent over-medicalised treatment.
A study found that giving patients personal music playlists resulted in a 60 per cent reduction in the need for medication.
A number of other studies have shown how music can benefit those suffering from not only memory loss syndrome, but other physical conditions too.
Marta C. González has sadly now passed away. But the beauty of her art lives on, continuing to bring light in darker times.
MerryBlooms
(11,770 posts)PlanetBev
(4,104 posts)DU sure knows how to bring the onions 🧅.
packman
(16,296 posts)Tears here
marble falls
(57,106 posts)gademocrat7
(10,660 posts)So very inspirational.
TygrBright
(20,762 posts)...my mother, who has a non-Alzheimers form of dementia affecting short-term memory, was almost able to function normally before the pandemic and I attribute that in part to her participation in the Giving Voice chorus.
They had to stop due to the pandemic, but are trying out a "Virtual" version... hoping we can get Mom back to singing with them if it's at all possible, but the technology is very difficult for her.
sadly,
Bright
homegirl
(1,429 posts)After the sadness of the last four years, the confinement and fear of this year, the loss of a sibling...this made me finally, cry.
Tears can be a joyous release...
lillypaddle
(9,580 posts)Just beautiful.
sarge43
(28,941 posts)Bless whoever gave her that moment.
/on edit/ Thank you kpete.
Spazito
(50,365 posts)Her incredible grace exhibited even as she can only use her arms and hands.
Beautiful, beyond beautiful.
lettucebe
(2,336 posts)Fla Dem
(23,691 posts)barbtries
(28,799 posts)she still has that part.
when my mother had a devastating stroke and was aphasic, i read that in a book, and it was confirmed on my 25th birthday, as she joined in for "happy birthday."
blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)She was talking to the young man about ballet movements, and it seemed she would get sad again when she spoke of when the movement of the legs was called for.
This made me sob. My mother had Dementia.
NoMoreRepugs
(9,435 posts)cab67
(2,993 posts)just so I could hit rec again.
pazzyanne
(6,556 posts)OneBlueSky
(18,536 posts)and God bless Tchaikovsky for the beautiful music . . .
Human spirit still within, brought me to tears. A dear friend has this disease and I know he is still there.
Thank you!
Sogo
(4,986 posts)Tears.
Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)Mazeltov Cocktail
(569 posts)So extraordinarily beautiful, now and in her past life.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)cayugafalls
(5,641 posts)BobTheSubgenius
(11,564 posts)I hope her survivors have some nice memories because of that.
The second-last time I saw my mother, she pointed a very shaky index finger at me and fought to say "Coupons."
The last time I saw her, she didn't seem to know who I was.
Hekate
(90,714 posts)rustysgurl
(1,040 posts)In the mind of that amazing, beautiful woman, she is in her costume, gliding across the stage, toes pointed, hitting every position, feeling every note of the music.
Simply incredible.
magicarpet
(14,155 posts)Moving,... Thank You for sharing.
coeur_de_lion
(3,680 posts)warmfeet
(3,321 posts)Beautiful and very moving.
calclar
(55 posts)...MY MUSIC TEACHER FROM AN EARLY AGE. SHE WAS ALSO A CONDUCTOR AND RESPONDED THE SAME WAY WHENEVER A PIECE OF CLASSICAL MUSIC WAS PLAYED FOR HER! I CRIED FOR HER AFTER SEEING AND HEARING THIS. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
area51
(11,911 posts)LAS14
(13,783 posts)sellitman
(11,607 posts)At times he didn't know me or where he was but he could remember with vivid detail his time in the Military in WW2. The mind is a strange thing indeed. This made me smile. Thanks for sharing.
nolabear
(41,987 posts)My mom is going through this now, and I am the one taking care of her. It is so hard!
There are two houses on the property, and I bring her out a few times a week for "music night" where we listen to her favorite tunes from the 70's. She knows all the vocals
Fuck, I hate this disease!
Her favorite is still Carole King. She listened to this song over and over after she left my dad who abused her with guns to her head, verbal abuse and cigarette burns.
She scooped up my brother and I and boogied in the middle of the night, found a job and kept us safe
ZZenith
(4,124 posts)She found her strength when she most needed to, and now you are returning the favor.
She is like a child! So happy and free, like a little girl again No worry with bills or time restraints.
I'm not building it to something it is not, but she loves everything. Happy all day.
I hope it stays this way!
KT2000
(20,584 posts)through practice and performance. It is a highway in her brain that the music brought to life again. Just beautiful.
diverdownjt
(702 posts)My eyes...well I cant see right now...
skip fox
(19,359 posts)Thanks for the light this morning.