The National Ballet of Cuba (BNC), Cultural Heritage of the Nation and one of the most prestigious dance companies in the world, celebrates its 73rd birthday today, and the company, which emerged in 1948 with Alicia Alonso as the main figure, is preparing to the return to the stage.
We commemorate this anniversary of the company with a memory mainly to its founders, with that inspiring task that is the continuity of its legacy, it is one more anniversary but we only have to work and work, assured Viengsay Valdés, prima ballerina and general director of the BNC.
The next presentations of the company will take place on December 4 and 5, in the Avellaneda Hall of the National Theater of Cuba with the works Danza de amor que se fue and Próspera, both functions will go on stage within the framework of the Week of the British Culture on the Island.
Meanwhile, from December 13 to 19, they will return to Avellaneda with a varied neoclassical program, the pieces Love Fear Loss, Invierno and the premiere in Cuba of the 7th. Symphony with choreography by Owe Scholz and music by the German Ludwig van Beethoven.
Viengsay, mentioned that despite the difficult circumstances due to the interruption due to the pandemic, we have made a great effort, it is not only a new challenge, by having our dancers in specialized training, so that they regain their physical form, so that they feel everything they need to dance again.
We also have to elevate that discipline, that professionalism of the dancers and the rigor of the rehearsals, he emphasized.
In addition, he highlighted the need to continue demonstrating that despite adversities they try to recover as much as possible to always have a high artistic level.
The director of the National Ballet of Cuba suggested that performances be carried out in open spaces, a massification of these functions, respecting of course all sanitary measures.
He stressed that dancers need that blank when performing, it is not worth doing a function or a character for two days, the dancer said, he needs repetitions of the same number so that he can achieve that artistic level, that mastery so necessary to maintain a good level, and that also evolves interpretively.
All this corresponds to nothing less than a young generation like the one we have today, but in which we have been influencing and demanding a lot from the discipline, that delivery in the salons in search of perfection, he concluded.
