Choreographies: Magical moments of dance

By: María Carla Gárciga

For the third time the Spanish artist and photographer Pere Artal exhibits in the lobby of the Mella Theater his unique large-format photographs devoted to ballet and his most important figures in the international arena.

The exhibition Coreografías which belongs to the project of the same name, was born from the creative work of Pere Artal in successive international ballet festivals in Havana.

At the opening of the expo, Miguel Cabrera, Historian of the National Ballet of Cuba, said that the festival is not limited to when the curtain opens, is much more, because it presents to the world what Cuba has accomplished in the dance art and wealth interaction between the public, experts, dancers, choreographers, friends and lovers of the dance world, including fine artists that complement the proposals of the festival with a personal vision that stands as testimony of our ballet.

Artal images capture the main features of the choreography: accuracy, art, beauty, strength, sensation and movement. Through digital setup, the artist manages to concentrate multiple photos into one, by capturing various choreographic moments that, without being successive transmit the effect of continuity of viewers thanks to the expertise of the author.

Among the works highlight various moments of Carlos Acosta in the ballet Les Bourgeois, María Pagés Flamenco and poetry, Jose Manuel Carreño in Le Corsaire, Vladimir Malakov in The Dying Swan, the American Ballet with The Seven Sonatas and the New York City Ballet with Liturgy and Other Dances.

Pere Artal is a photographer and artist from Barcelona who specialized in photography ballets and shows. He graduated in Photography at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), Terrassa, Barcelona, and has participated in solo and group exhibitions and won First Prize in Photography Injuve'02 2002, awarded by the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs of Spain.

Source: Cubarte