cubanmiamiboy Posted June 19, 2012 Share Posted June 19, 2012 Octavio Roca defined it as a "beefcake extravaganza". It is Azari Plisetski's "Canto Vital-("Song of Nature), set to Gustav Mahler's Rondo finale from his 5th Symphony in C); This is a contemporary piece for four male dancers and a vehicle for physicality and prowess, as they leap and crawl and climb, up and over and under each other, in bare, bathing-suit types of colorful costumes. This is a work of biceps and bravura, masculinity and muscularity. Mahler's music is perfectly positioned here, with its trumpet flares and swelling strings. The four characters depicted are "Nature", "Beast", "Fish" and "Bird". 1979. ORLANDO SALGADO, LAZARO CARRENO, ANDRES WILLIAMS, RAUL BARROSO 2011. Arian Molina, Jose Carlos Lozada, Serafin Castro, Yanier Gomez http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NHr2-TgCVk&feature=related Link to comment
Natalia Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 Thanks, cubanmiamiboy! I saw the very cast from your first clip dance this ballet in San Juan during the memorable August 1978 tour to Pto Rico. This ballet had the audience in a frenzy, especially when the guys jumped on each others' backs at the end, forming a human pyramid of sorts. I just remember the entire audience jumping up from their seats and screaming 'Bravo!' ... not sitting down until the ballet ended a minute or so later. Link to comment
cubanmiamiboy Posted June 20, 2012 Author Share Posted June 20, 2012 Thanks, cubanmiamiboy! I saw the very cast from your first clip dance this ballet in San Juan during the memorable August 1978 tour to Pto Rico. This ballet had the audience in a frenzy, especially when the guys jumped on each others' backs at the end, forming a human pyramid of sorts. I just remember the entire audience jumping up from their seats and screaming 'Bravo!' ... not sitting down until the ballet ended a minute or so later. Thanks for your memories, Natasha. I believe that the first clip actually belongs to that very Puerto Rican tour you remember. Also interesting to note that Williams, from the first clip, was the first black dancer to climb the ranks in the Cuban company. Link to comment
Natalia Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 .... I believe that the first clip actually belongs to that very Puerto Rican tour you remember. .... My goodness...there's a film of the tour???? Link to comment
Birdsall Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 Wow! Canto Vital is a tour de force! Wish I could see it live! Link to comment
Birdsall Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 Who should be in the cast if ABT (if an international company) ever staged Canto Vital???? Gomes and Vasiliev need to be in it! LOL Link to comment
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