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“#Watch a dancer with Alzheimer’s performs ‘Swan Lake’<\/strong>”
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\n Music is a conduit to the soul. Former ballerina Marta C. Gonz\u00e1lez is heartrending proof of that.<\/p>\n

The Spanish dancer, who reportedly died in 2019<\/a> after battling Alzheimer\u2019s disease, has captivated social media<\/a> since a video surfaced of Gonz\u00e1lez, by then confined to a wheelchair, vividly recalling the upper-body choreography of Tchaikovsky\u2019s \u201cSwan Lake\u201d \u2014 her delicate ballet hands graceful as ever.<\/p>\n

The unearthed clip was shot last year by M\u00fasica para Despertar<\/a>, an advocacy group for music therapy, and recently posted to the organization\u2019s social-media accounts,<\/a> where it is now going viral around the globe.<\/p>\n

The moving footage of Gonz\u00e1lez, whose age at her time of death is unknown, got a major boost on Sunday by Felipe Tristan, associate conductor of the Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra, via Twitter<\/a>, where the clip has collected nearly 48,000 likes so far.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe most beautiful video you\u2019ll see today!\u201d he captioned the video, which features features images of Gonz\u00e1lez in her dancing prime.<\/p>\n

Oscar-nominated actor Antonio Banderas also shared the video<\/a>. \u201cThe emotional power of music!\u201d he tweeted in his native Spanish.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Cadena SER<\/a>, the founder of M\u00fasica para Despertar, Pepe Olmedo, called it \u201cabsolutely impressive.\u201d<\/p>\n

Olmedo claimed he had very little information on Gonz\u00e1lez\u2019s history, only that she\u2019s from Valencia and began studying ballet when she emigrated to Cuba. \u201cNews<\/a>paper clippings\u201d indicated she eventually rose to prima ballerina of the New York City Ballet. (The Post is awaiting comment from the NYCB to confirm the connection.)<\/p>\n

Those moved by the video on social media also shared firsthand accounts of how music \u201ctranscends<\/a>\u201d illness.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy dad is now non-verbal due to Alzheimer\u2019s but the last time I was able to visit him he still lit up and mouthed the words to any Beatles song I played,\u201d replied<\/a> Twitter user Seth Darby, from Sydney.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was incredibly emotional,\u201d added<\/a> John Jonson, from Los Angeles. \u201cCaptures the sublime beauty of humanity struggling against the onslaught of time.\u201d\n <\/div>\n