In memory of Alice and Ellen Kessler, tonight a luminous chapter of European entertainment comes to a close. Alice and Ellen Kessler, two identical bodies, two intertwined destinies, a single voice carried across decades, chose to leave the world exactly as they lived in it, together. They shaped their final exit with the same grace that once guided their steps on stage, not a solitary farewell but a mirrored gesture, a twin signature marking the end of eighty nine years lived in perfect synchrony. For many they were simply icons of the variety stage, the most famous legs in Europe, yet those who truly followed them know that behind the glitter stood discipline, elegance, and a bond no biography ever managed to fully contain. They embodied an age in which art could still be lightness and lightness could still be depth, and now their quiet, deliberate departure reminds us that the last choice belongs to each individual, and that sometimes the final freedom is also the most intimate. The Kessler Twins leave not with scandal nor noise but like two figures dissolving in the same direction, step after step, just as they walked onto the stage together in 1959. What remains to us is the gaze we cast upon them, and what remains of them is the harmony of two voices that never separated, not even in their final act. Farewell, Alice and Ellen, may you remain twins even in silence.
