A spine-tingling video of a former prima ballerina with Alzheimer’s remembering the choreography she danced to decades ago in New York has gone viral on social media

This is the heartwarming moment a former prima ballerina with Alzheimer’s is taken back to her dancing days when she hears the music she performed to decades ago

Marta C Gonzalez becomes animated as she recalls the choreography of Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake”, as her delicate hands transform her into a performer once again.

The former prima ballerina, who danced in New York during the 1960s, performed Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake hundreds of times during her career.

Like other athletes, ballet dancers have incredibly high tuned bodies, the result of undergoing years of vigorous daily training.

And Ms Gonzalez showed how performers never forget that training as she listened to the classical soundtrack through headphones.