![]() Source: via ElEspañolĪn ID card accredits Marta with being a ballet teacher in Cuba Source: ElEspañol Marta, in an old portrait. Even so, all of her life she spoke with a Cuban accent. Although, again, her ID says another thing and places her entrance into the world about 7,400 kilometers from the Spanish capital, specifically, in Havana, Cuba. What she did say was where she was born: Madrid. But her National Identity Card says she was born in ’49, and that now she would be around 70 years-old. “We calculated that she was born around 1924. Instead of adding years, she was going backwards (laughter)”, explains Inmaculada Vilar, the director of the nursing home Muro de Alcoy where Marta spent the last few years of her life. You would ask her and she would say she was 40 years-old. “In her National Identity Card the date is falsified. Her exact birthdate is a mystery since she never said her age and is personally responsible for falsifying it. Marta was born in Madrid in the mid-1920s. Marta’s exact birthdate remains a mystery Source: ElEspañol Marta spoke with a Cuban accent all her life. Īs if the spirit were much younger than the body that encompasses it, Marta flies away like in times gone by, much before her time in a wheelchair, when she received applause in theaters around the world, when the press surrendered to her talent, or when she left her young students with gaping mouths wide open with her “majestic” presence. Spanish media El Español investigated the life of Marta González in order to discover what is behind this woman who, just like Princess Odette – Queen of the Swans in Tchaikovsky’s libretto – transforms with the melody and begins to move her arms in wing-like movement while submerged in a trance that brings her back to her glory days. All this with a muddle of dates that would make even Sherlock Holmes scratch his head. The video of this woman that went viral and has quickly made its way through social networks and other media, has incited passion for the tenderness of its image.īehind this small fragment of video there is a movie-like life: a relocation to Fulgencio Batista’s Cuba, the arrival to the top of the New York dance world, a ballet school in Madrid, and a funny story of love in old age. Surely none of these names tell you anything, but if we speak of the elderly woman who passionately dances “Swan Lake “ from her wheelchair, maybe she will sound familiar. In Cuba she was called Rosamunda in Madrid and New York, Marta Cinta but on her Spanish identification card it appeared as Marta González Saldaña. She lived in Cuba, danced in New York, taught in Madrid, and triumphed after her death in a nursing home in Alcoy, where she dreamed of doing a ballet with the elderly. Source: TheNationalNews Marta lived in Cuba, danced in New York, and taught ballet in Madrid. When it was posted, Asociación Música para Despertar revealed the video was taken in Valencia, Spain in 2019, and that Gonzalez has since died. The dancer, Marta C Gonzalez, suffers from memory loss which makes her dance all the more poignant, as she remembers decades-old choreography thanks to the power of music. Since it was uploaded online on October 30 by Asociacion Musica para Despertar, a Spanish organisation that promotes music therapy, the clip been viewed almost 2.5 million times to date. Former ballerina with Alzheimer’s goes viral after dancing to ‘Swan Lake’Ī video that purports to show a former ballet dancer with Alzheimer’s gracefully moving to Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake is touching hearts around the world. Touching video showing a former ballet dancer afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease gracefully moving to Tchaikovsky’s ballet Swan Lake goes viral, once again proving the power of music in helping those suffering memory loss. ![]()
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