{"id":5627,"date":"2020-11-10T03:41:32","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T03:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=180031"},"modified":"2020-11-10T19:17:58","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T19:17:58","slug":"former-ballerina-dementia-remembers-swan-lake","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/former-ballerina-dementia-remembers-swan-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"This Viral Video Proves The Connection Between Music And Memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_180032\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 1024px\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-180032\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-180032 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/GettyImages-533528979.jpg?w=1024&amp;resize=1024%2C689\" alt=\"swan lake\" width=\"1024\" height=\"689\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-180032\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Getty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Music has long been used to express emotions and evoke memories, whether it\u2019s a couple\u2019s wedding song, a breakup anthem (hello, Harry Styles \u2013 <em>Fallen<\/em>), or something that simply reminds you of summer, childhood, or a fun night out. For those suffering with Alzheimer\u2019s Disease, however, simply listening to music can become one of the key ways to tap deep emotional recall, which otherwise could be lost completely.<\/p>\n<p>The significance of music and its ability to evoke memories is perfectly encapsulated in an emotional video that\u2019s been making the rounds online today. The clip shows Marta C Gonzalez, a former prima ballerina with the New York Ballet listening to Tchaikovsky\u2019s famous ballet <em>Swan Lake.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the video, which was originally shared by Asociacion Musica para Despertar, a Spanish charity which uses music to improve memory and mood in dementia patients, Gonzalez listens to the music through a pair of headphones, replicating the choreography she learned years prior. At the end of her performance, Gonzalez is met with applause by those in the room, before being comforted after she tells her carers she\u2019s feeling \u201cemotional.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez passed away in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Actress Jennifer Garner was one of many to share the moving video, writing on her post, \u201cOur innate connection to music, to movement, to the arts, is beautiful. This former ballerina\u2019s sense memory of Swan Lake\u2014just does me in, it\u2019s so lovely. Thank you to everyone in the fight against Alzheimer\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-video\" style=\"width: 640px\"><video id=\"video-0-1\" class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" poster=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screen-Shot-2020-11-10-at-1.41.06-PM.png\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Actress Selma Blair responded to Garner\u2019s post, writing, \u201cThank you. This is so moving,\u201d while Kirsten Bell wrote, \u201cTHIS IS SO BEAUTIFUL\u201d and Tabitha Brown commented, \u201cMusic is connected to the soul.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Others who have personal experience with dementia patients also shared their stories. \u201cI worked in Alzheimer\u2019s\/dementia and I had a resident who could not put five words together. We got her an iPod, she sang every word to every song. Music is powerful,\u201d one person wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am a speech pathologist that works in nursing homes,\u201d another shared. \u201cOnce I had a patient that didn\u2019t know her name or where she was, but when I put her in front of a piano, she could play a handful of songs flawlessly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/fact-sheets\/detail\/dementia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>World Health Organisation<\/em><\/a>, around 50 million people worldwide have dementia and there are nearly 10 million new cases every year. Alzheimer\u2019s, the most common form of dementia, contributes to 60\u201370% of cases.<\/p>\n<p>Though there is no treatment currently available to cure dementia or to alter its progressive course, the fact that music alone can bring someone back \u2013 even if just for a few moments, just like Noah and Ally had in <em>The Notebook<\/em> \u2013 shouldn\u2019t be overlooked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9593,"featured_media":5634,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[23,16],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v20.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Video Shows Former Ballerina With Dementia Remembering Swan Lake<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/former-ballerina-dementia-remembers-swan-lake\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"This Viral Video Proves The Connection Between Music And Memory\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Credit: Getty Music has long been used to express emotions and evoke memories, whether it\u2019s a couple\u2019s wedding song, a breakup anthem (hello, Harry Styles \u2013 Fallen), or something that simply reminds you of summer, childhood, or a fun night out. 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