CubaPLUS Magazine

To celebrate the 97^th birthday of the prima ballerina assoluta Alicia Alonso the talking book "Alicia and the choice of the faith" from the author Jesús Lara Sotelo, was presented in Havana. 

The meeting was carried out in the headquarters of the Cuba Writers and Artists Union (UNEAC), where Lara Sotelo showed the audible version of poems published in 2010 by Cuba Publications about the Ballet and which have more than thirty elegies. 

The launch of the book was in charge of the Cuban intellectual Virgilio López Lemus and for the adaptation note, the poet Alberto Marrero was called again, to whom seven years ago was also entrusted, together with other intellectuals, the preface of the poems "Alicia and the Prussian Odes" from Lara Sotelo. 

"Alicia and the choice of the faith" is a work of art, has said López Lemus who expressed that in it is reflected itself an intense image colorful, the corporeal soundness of the evocation and the cultural characteristics of the texts, all of which show a synergy of several artistic techniques that are mixing up in those poems, he detailed. 

All those elements converge indissolubly, and do not forget that Alicia and the choice of the faith’s author is also, painter and sculptor; somebody that works with his hands other subjects also poetics, López Lemus pointed out. 

Since 2011 Lara Sotelo has dedicated to Alicia Alonso a vast exhibition of visual arts that is entitled &á&áSupremacy of the ecstasy&á&á, through an approach to her significance in the dance and in the universal culture. 

The author of these poems understood that Alicia Alonso requires a corporeal similarity to the ode; to a surrealism book; full with interconnections, revelations and stars, but doesn’t to put it in her feet, but also to crown her. This way, López Lemus, doctor in Philological Sciences, embellished the launch of Lara Sotelo's work. 

Once more, the launching of this plastic art artist, of self-taught training, has the auspice of the National Museum of Dance, the Cuba National Ballet and the UNEAC to pay tribute to the prima ballerina assoluta who celebrates this month 97 years of age.