Jazz Vilá to join performances of Montecarlo Ballet in Cuba

By: Octavio Borges

Actor and director Jazz Vilña collaborates with the performances in Cuba during the 16th International Havana Theater Festival of the famous Montecarlo Ballet, from the Principality of Monaco, which closed this appointment of playwrights in the Cuban capital city  with the play Cinderella.

Vilá, a young Cuban artist, is linked to this company because during his stay in Spain he served as an assistant producer of the Monegasque group during their tours around several cities in the Iberian Peninsula.

In an exclusive to AIN news agency, Vilá said to be pleased about the collaboration with the National Council of Performing Arts so these performances of the Montecarlo Ballet—for the first time in Cuba—put them on a par with the functions programmed for October 30, 31 and November 1 at Teatro Nacional’s Avellaneda Hall.

This young Cuban artist directs the Jazz Vilá Project that just a few months ago premiered with great success the play Rascacielos (Skyscrapers); he made a national tour around several provinces and now he is preparing an international one in just a few days which will start in the Dominican Republic and end in Key West, United States.

It is also the representative of actress Yordanka Ariosa, winner of the Silver Shell for Best Female Performance in September this year at the 63rd International Film Festival of San Sebastian, Spain. Just a week ago, she won the award in that same category at the Latin Beat Festival in Tokyo, Japan.

The European dance group was created in 1936 by the Princess of Hannover, according to the wishes of his mother Grace of Monaco and the version of Cinderella to be presented in Havana was created by its director, French Christophe Maillot, who guides the destiny of this artistic group since 1993.

Maillot has been honored with the Benois Dance Award and the Nijinsky Award for his choreographic work and during his career as a dancer he won one of the most prized awards in the world of dance: the Grand Prix de Lasanne, Switzerland.

His work is recognized directing the Montecarlo Ballet, with antecedents like the mythical Ballets Russes and the Monte Carlo Colonel De Basil.

Source: AIN