«Agnès loved to dance, I loved her very much»

The wife of Stéphane Voirin it was Agnès, the 53-year-old Spanish teacher killed in class by a high school student with psychiatric problems. Last Friday there were the funeral in Biarritz, in the French Basque country, and at one point the fifty-year-old Stéphane started dancing alone, to the tune of Love by Nat King Cole, in front of Agnès’ coffin. “One of the most tragic and wonderful dance scenes I have ever seen. Through him you see her dancing too», wrote Benjamin Millepied, one of the greatest dancers and choreographers in the world.

He dances in front of the coffin of his wife killed by a student, the crowd joins him

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The video that moved many people in France and around the world has gone viral on the web. «I am happy that something beautiful has come out of this drama, a kind of shared feeling. 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 saying that life is beautiful. I read so many beautiful words, I am very surprised. People understood that mine was like a cry from the heart, the love of a man who has lost the woman he loved. It is very simple, dramatic and simple», the man told Corriere della Sera.

«Agnès and I shared many passions but dance was still at the center, we met dancing in 2010. It all started like this and I felt like saying goodbye to her as it had begun, to the tune of Nat King Cole. I wanted to experience that moment a bit in my own way, I certainly didn’t think so many people would see it, I didn’t imagine it would then be spread on the Internet, for me that was an intimate dimension. Someone who was at the funeral joined me, even people I didn’t know. I was happy, for me it was an ode to love and life, which goes on. Life must go on, is a tribute to Agnès, who was a wonderful person. I wish I could kiss her again.”

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