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• 01 / 01 / 2010

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Undoubtedly year 2009 marked a milestone in the scenic arts of the Island: important theatre events, have taken place, mainly Havana International Festival and mostly the presentation of great companies and personalities from the universal dance.

The pinnacle was the visit in July of the Royal Ballet, the main British dance troupe. The many dance lovers in Cuba, formed in the taste for ballet thanks to the extraordinary performance of both Alicia Alonso and the National Ballet of Cuba (BNC), had the opportunity to first admire live one of the greatest troupes from the universal dance, which makes up, along with the Paris Opera Ballet, Bolshoi Theatre and the Danish Royal Ballet, the classical dance aristocracy in Europe.

 It was a meeting with another way of assuming dance, a singular choreographic heritage, a multinational cast that however defends the sober, elegant and accurate style of the English ballet.

 The Royal arrived in Havana with almost all its cast and with an extraordinary technical deployment that includes two great productions: “Manon” (by Kenneth MacMillan) and “Un mes en el campo” (by Frederick Ashton).

The shows at the Great Theatre of Havana and the Karl Marx Theatre, always crowded, became a tour through the history of the company, an outlook of their main contributions to the universal choreographic art.

 The British company rendered tribute to the main figure of the Iberian-American dance, living myth of the 20th century ballet: Alicia Alonso.

 Monica Mason, the director of the troupe’s director, affirmed that she was returning to her country “with a feeling that is common to Cubans too, that of having shared a memorable event in every sense”.

Source: Cubasí