Classical dance in Alex Castro’s lens

By: Adalys Pérez

Linked to ballet for some time but as a photographer of Cuba’s Spanish Ballet, Alex Castro invites now to enjoy the grace and virtuosity of Cuban dancers that have chosen a more classical way, as passionate as it is for him and for the audience.

That’s how it starts the exhibit Danza Cuba, which could be seen until next January at Amos Estudio gallery, a Havana’s institution in a community where he usually collaborates.

Some fifteen black and white pictures show again for the spectator some particularly notable moments of classical ballet dancers, all of them taken during performances.

To interpret the dancers’ grace, the sense of the choreography and to try to evade how immobile and bi-dimensional photography is as a means of expression are Alex Castro’s main interests, who renounces to color in this proposal, trying not to distract the attention of those observing them.

Danza Cuba does not only shows the skill and sensitivity behind the camera, but also the worth of those classical ballet dancers from Cuba, an obvious purpose of this personal exhibit added now to the ones he has presented since 2000, after he started to make incursions in this art expression as an autodidact artist in 1976.

Source: Cubarte