By: Idania Rodríguez Echevarría
National Ballet of Cuba (BNC, as its initials in Spanish) will put the choreography Hansel and Gretel on again at the Karl Marx Theater by Eduardo Blanco on February 7 and 8, as a one of the varied proposals for 2015.
This work was conceived for two acts and it is based on the classic story of the universal literature for children related to the brothers Jacob y Wilhelm Grimm, with staging by Ivette González, theatrical direction by Carlos Alberto "Tin" Cremata and music by Jules Massenet, Richard Wagner, Serguei Prokofiev and Joseph Luigini.
This joint performance of the BNC Dance Chair, company dancers, the Colmenita children theater group and the National School of Ballet is dedicated to the 25 anniversaries of the Children Rights Convention and the Colmenita children theater group.
Also, they will celebrate the 15 anniversary of the vocational workshop of the dance Chair from the National Ballet of Cuba, and the 10 Congress of the Young Communists Union.
Sources of the company directed by Alicia Alonso announced that the proposal scheduled for February, 2015 is the Lake of the Swans, to be presented on February 14 to 15, and February 20 to 22 at the Avellaneda room of the Nacional theater of Cuba. On March14 and 15, the Cuban dancers will perform Tula, also at the Avellaneda room, a work created by Alicia Alonso in two acts, an inspiration from the life and work of Cuban outstanding writer Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda [1814-1873]. Also, the public will have the opportunity to enjoy a combined program from February 20 to 22with ballets, which premiered at the 24th Havana International Festival of Ballet last November.
On April the National Ballet of Cuba will participate at the Festival La Huella de España, an appointment created by the end of the 1980's and that this year it will be dedicated to Galicia.
Source: AIN
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