Photographic exhibition in Cuba highlights significance of Alicia Alonso

By Martha Sanchez Martinez

Havana. With the photo exhibition En buenas manos (In Good Hands), the ballet invites today to reflect on the significance of the universal Cuban artist, Alicia Alonso, director of the 24th International Ballet Festival of Havana, to be attended by artists from 25 countries.

According to photographers Nancy Reyes and Luis Alberto Alonso, a sequence of the hands the Cuban assoluta prima ballerina evoke feelings as Cuban tradition, friendship, affection, education, security, love and musicality.

Both artists have photographed the director of the National Ballet of Cuba (BNC) in halls, theaters, office, home and other places.

The exhibition will be inaugurated on Wednesday in the lobby of the National Theater Avellaneda as part of the collateral activities planned for the 24th edition of the Festival to be held from October 28^th to November 7^th  with the participation of more than 200 foreign dancers.

Also, in the same room will be opened Del boceto a la otra mirada, an exhibition of ceramic by Landy Mesis about some of the scenographic works of ballet designers Salvador Fernandez and Ricardo Reymena.

Mesis works the tencradís technique, which in Catalan means brittle or broken, and is a mosaic made ??with ceramic joined fragments.

Festival collateral activities include the opening of an exhibition of Bolivian Spanish photographer Pilar Ruby, the coming October 24th, and the next day at the National Museum of Dance the presentation of the photo book Habana sensual, by the Cuban journalist Gabriel Davalos.

Meanwhile, the painter Miguel Angel Quintana aims to pay tribute to William Shakespeare with his exhibition titled El arte se nutre del arte, which will be opened to the public on October 26^th  at the Fresa y Chocolate gallery.

This edition of the Festival will be dedicated to the famous English playwright and will have the theme Por Shakespeare, la danza (By Shakespeare, dance)

In addition, on  October 27^th , the American photographer Rebekah Bowman will exhibit a series of portraits of the Cuban School of Ballet, in the José Martí Memorial, in Havana.

Source: PL