CubaPLUS Magazine

Artists from over 15 countries will share stage as of this Monday at the 28th International Ballet Festival Alicia Alonso, which Cuba celebrates until 10TH NOVEMBER.

The event of over six decades again puts relevant figures of world culture to share the same language, dance that, according to the President of the event, Viengsay Valdés, knows no frontiers, as in the halls and stages they talk the same language, as in halls and stages they talk through movement.

That is the magic of the Festival, it shares with the public how artists dance in other parts of the world, different styles and emotions, said the first ballerina and Director of the National Cuban Ballet BNC), organizing entity of the Festival.

The 28th edition will have as scenarios the capital halls Avellaneda and Covarrubias, the National Theater and the Marti Theater.
As Valdes said, the event of 2024 will have the presence of several figures whose art contributed to the prestige of the Festival in previous years.

Argentine Julio Bocca, director of the company of the Colon Theater of Buenos Aires, who will be honored with an exhibition of Swan Lake, classic which he danced for the first time in Cuba, in a Festival and so he chose to dance his last showing here.

In the same manner, two very dear figures who were first ballet dancers of the BNC, Russian Azari Plisetski and Cuban Jose Manuel Carreño, who will dance also like English dancer Maina Gielgud, with a brilliant career in the 20th Century Ballet of Maurice Bejart, amon other groups.

One of the pecularities of the present event will be the expected season of the most famous ballet of the planet, Swan Lake, in whose leading roles will stand out Cuban and foreign dancers, and which is not danced in Cuba in its complete form wince 2018.

In the gala program appear names of relevant artists such as Mexican Elisa Carrillo, Spanish Joaquin de Luz and Patricia Donn, Brazilian Marcelo Gomes, French Mathilde Froustey, Portuguese Antonio Casalinho and Russians Daniil Simkin and Semyon Chundin.
Formations will act like Anajnu Veatem-Jewish Dancing Company of Mexico and Colombian Incolballet, as well as other Cuban groups.

The opening Gala will take place in the National Theatre which will open with a show of Cuban students and professional dancers and will close with the world premiere of The weight of instant, of Swedish choreographer Pontus Lindberg.

(Taken from Prensa Latina)