Cuban and US ballet companies pay tribute to Hispanic roots

The American company ABT Studio and the National Ballet of Cuba (BNC) recently collaborated in the making of a video to commemorate National Hispanic Heritage Month in the northern nation.

Through its Facebook profile, the American Ballet Theater said Thursday that both companies came together through dance in an audiovisual that integrates their next generations of dancers, and that it was filmed in the cities of Washington DC and Havana. .

In its publication, the famous American dance group highlights that the material also aims to celebrate the power of art to transcend borders. In turn, he points out that the production of the audiovisual had the support of the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation.

From your profile on the same social network, the BNC maintained that «Illusions, shared dreams and more; that gives us the dance. We owe it to her» and I wish all her followers the enjoyment of the piece.

The publication of the emblematic company of the Island added that dancers Elisabeth Beyer, Tristan Brosnan, Andrew Robare, Olivia Tweedy and Aleisha Walker participated in the video on the American side, with the artistic supervision of Sascha Radetsky, and coordinated by director Claire Florian.

The Cuban protagonist was in charge of the dancers Mónica Viqueira, Aliladi Travieso, Carolina Estrada, Roger Cuza and Alejandro Mariño, under the orders of the current director of the BNC, Viengsay Valdesand the coordination of Heriberto Cabezas.

United States and Cuba linked by ballet

Cuban dance, and especially the BNC, maintain strong ties with the American Ballet Theatre, which had the Prima Ballerina Assoluta Alicia Alonso as its main figure in the 40s and 50s of the last century. Within that company, Alonso starred for the first time in the classic Giselleon November 2, 1943.

Recently the American choreographer Jessica Langlinked to that renowned company, among other groups, was in Havana preparing, together with members of the BNC, the premiere of his most recent work “Joyful We”, scheduled for next October as part of the International Ballet Festival of the capital. Cuban.