cubanmiamiboy Posted May 11, 2008 Share Posted May 11, 2008 CCBM dancers must be celebrating right now. They just delivered an amazing performance to a sold out house. Tonight they gave miamians a true season finale with a baseball stadium feeling, Havana style. Here, tonight's program: Part I Bayadere Act II (Kingdom of the Shades)(Petipa/Minkus) Nikiya: Jordan Elizabeth Long Solor: Miguel Angel Blanco Three Shades: Kaleena Burks, Grace-Anne Powers, Casey Vaughan Corps. Part II Le Spectre de la Rose. (Fokine/Von Weber) The Girl: Kate Kadow. The Rose: Carlos Quenedit Carnival in Venice-(aka Satanella/Fascination) PDD. Petipa/Pugni Satanella: Adiarys Almeida Alvaro:Joseph Gatti Dying Swan. (Fokine/Saint-Saens) The Swan: Emily Spencer. Sleeping Beauty PDD. (Petipa/Tchaikovsky) Aurora: Hayna Gutierrez Desire: Miguel Angel Blanco La Viviandere (Pas de Six) (Saint-Leon/Pugni) Kathi: Kaleena Burks Hans: Gleidson Vasconcelos with: Jordan Elizabeth Long, Vilma Machin, Samantha Powers, Emily Spencer Don Quixote PDD (Petipa/Minkus) Kitri: Adiarys Almeida Basilio: Taras Domitro. Ok, first things first. My deep respect and appreciation to: Pedro Pablo Pena. For being the driving force (artistic director) behind the CCBM and giving us this kind of performances. Magaly Suarez. For dedicating her life and efforts to her dancers. No wonder she is simply known as "Mamicha" (like "mommy" ) I'll get over briefly through the whole performance in a second post. Right now i want to highlight two of the performances: Sleeping Beauty PDD. Here we had my new favorite couple, new SFB's acquisitions Hayna Gutierrez and Miguel Angel Blanco. Hayna: Steel technique (those endless balances...! ) radiant figure, old ballet Russes aura. Did i already mention that besides being an outstanding ballerina, she is a lovely young lady...?.Miguel Angel Blanco was the perfect example of how important is to learn how to become a great partenaire along the way. Hayna never looked more comfortable while being maneuvered. The lifts were impeccable. And the three fish dives were WONDERFUL, her body totally arched, almost doing a full circle. (I'm glad they did them, as a friend told me that it was considered to use the "new old" SB choreography where they rather do either a supported fall in sous-sus or a quick turn into arabesque) Don Quijote PDD. Wow, and i mean WOW!...Adiarys Almeida and Taras Domitro were FIRE. Honestly, tonight she stole the show...it was HER night. Her Kitri was vivacious, quick, playing the love game in a way i hadn't seen in a long time. Her variation exuded sensuality and Spanish flavor, and her fouettes, with a minimum traveling, were nailed in between triple pirouettes all the way to the end, while using her fan in a non stopping motion...Impressive. Domitro worked his variation like there was no tomorrow, tours en l'air with an incredible speed, pirouettes that left the audience gasping. The guy was a speeding madness! Guys, you rocked tonight! Link to comment
Vivian Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 CCBM dancers must be celebrating right now. They just delivered an amazing performance to a sold out house. Tonight they gave miamians a true season finale with a baseball stadium feeling, Havana style. You are right. I went with my son ( ) and was amazed of how excited the audience (basically spanish-spoken) gets. The final dance from Sleeping Beauty was beautiful. Link to comment
cubanmiamiboy Posted May 19, 2008 Author Share Posted May 19, 2008 ...and here's another photo from backstage. It shows Adiarys Almeida and Joseph Gatti (ex Cincinnati Principals and future Ballet de Espana founders) wearing their "Satanella" costumes. http://www.flickr.com/photos/26624336@N06/2506945564/ Link to comment
cubanmiamiboy Posted July 17, 2008 Author Share Posted July 17, 2008 I had a chance of viewing some of the videos of the CCBM in youtube.Of course, the Cuban dancers lived up to thier reputations but the big surprise(at least to me) are the performances of 2 Americanas ( GA Powers and Jordan E Long). I thought they vwere terrific. I don't know anything about them. Are they regular members of the company? I'm glad you enjoyed the clips. Yes, both Powers and Long are regular members of the Company. I was also very nicely surprised by Powers performance on the Corsaire PDD replacing an injured Gutierrez. There's a whole thread dedicated to her. Here it is. http://ballettalk.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=27164 Link to comment
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