CubaPLUS Magazine

The Gran Teatro de La Habana Alicia Alonso (GTHAA) inaugurated a Homenaje exhibition, by the authors Ramsés Batista and Eric Politzer, to celebrate the 69th anniversary of the National Ballet of Cuba (BNC). The Zoom Monographic Hall hosts the photographic exhibition that until mid-November will be open to the public, and then handed over as a legacy to the GTHAA, an institution that also welcomes its 180th birthday. They paraded in front of the lens of the Cuban Batista and the American Politzer first BNC dancers like Viengsay Valdés, Anette Delgado, Sadaise Arencibia and others, who unveiled in the images printed on canvas the movement of their bodies, while they drew with their dancing forms the contours architectural works of the theater. In an exclusive interview with Prensa Latina, Batista said that not only the protagonism of the portrayed people is exhibited, but the quality they possess as people. It is not only the relevance of their work in ballet, they are affordable, cooperative and never refused to give support in this endeavor; were always there to repeat the jump, smiling, said the photographer born in Havana. For several years these artists have shared the work of Politzer and mine, so we have already developed a continuity and a body of work between photography and classical ballet, he added. This art not necessarily I see it in a theater, but it is in the street; it is a way of feeling, of expressing emotions; so I see the dance, said the creator of several exhibitions in cities in the United States, Canada and Europe. Tribute is the prize for two important dates and the reason to discover the dancer in the street, off stage, where passersby pass, and that these enjoy the protagonists of Giselle or Carmen from a more open perspective to achieve the most part city Here I display both Havana and its multiple characters, and in that scenario are the classical dancers, he concluded.