Agnès Lassalle, a 53-year-old teacher, passionate about dance, from Biarritz, in the Basque Country, stopped dancing forever on February 22: she died, killed in class, without a reason, with a knife, by one of his sixteen-year-old pupils, with unstable mental health. But Stephane Voirin, her husband, also danced for her.
At his funeral, in front of his wife’s coffin, he began to dance with arms wide open, to the tune of *__Love __*by Nat Kong Cole, as if he wanted to give his beloved one last ride. After a few seconds, even the friends and relatives who were participating in the ceremony joined him, alone or in pairs, and began to dance all around Agnès’ coffin. Stephane and his wife were passionate about music, they were two swing dancers and they met in 2010 while they were dancing.
The video of that dance in front of the coffin, so moving, went around the world, shared thousands of times on social networks. A hymn to the beauty of life, which contrasts with the brutality of death that met Agnès.
“I’m happy that something good has come out of this drama, a kind of shared feeling», explained Stephane, reached on the phone by Corriere della Sera. “Agnès and I were in love, and very close. Like me, but even more than me, Agnès loved life, and in her honor I want to continue to say that life is beautiful. I read so many beautiful words, I am very surprised. People understood what mine was like a cry from the heart, the love of a man who has lost the woman he loved. It’s very simple, dramatic and simple.”
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Source: Vanity Fair
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