Music is a conduit to the soul. Former ballerina Marta C. González is heartrending proof of that.
The Spanish dancer, who reportedly died in 2019 after battling Alzheimer’s disease, has captivated social media since a video surfaced of González, by then confined to a wheelchair, vividly recalling the upper-body choreography of Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake” — her delicate ballet hands graceful as ever.
The unearthed clip was shot last year by Música para Despertar (Music to Wake Up To), an advocacy group for music therapy, and recently posted to the organization’s social-media accounts, where it is now going viral around the globe.
The moving footage of González, 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, where the clip has collected nearly 48,000 likes so far.
