Natalia Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 Apologies if another thread was started about this but it is very interesting. Justin Peck directed/led a tour of several (about 20) NYCB dancers to the latest Int'l Ballet Festival in Havana., dancing four of his works: InCreases Furiant Scherzo (world prem. - Bouder & DeLuz) Year of the Rabbit Ro-Deo: Four Dance Episodes The group - called "DANCE AMERICANA" - included Mearns, Ramasar, Applebaum, DeLuz, Hall, Stanley, Pollack, Garrity, Woodward and ???. One story mentioned that some Miami City Ballet dancers also performed but I couldn't find a full list of names. There was very little publicity in the US but I found this from a UK site: http://theprisma.co.uk/2016/12/05/justin-peck-seeks-the-meaning-of-music-with-ballet-shoes/ Also "news" to me, Carlos Acosta's ACOSTA DANZA company (based in the UK?) toured Cuba this past April, dancing, among other works, Justin Peck's Belles-Lettres (created for NYCB). http://www.acostadanza.com/en So....Peck may be the "Toast of Havana"! Any belated reports? I'm having a hard time finding online reviews of Peck's DANCE AMERICANA troupe. The Acosta group seems to be better publicized & established. Link to comment
Natalia Posted June 24, 2017 Author Share Posted June 24, 2017 Some great photos of the dancers in Ro-DEO and InCreases found here (by official Havana Ballet Festival photographer Carlos Quezada): https://balletthebestphotographs.wordpress.com/2016/11/01/ You'll notice more than one woman among the usually-all-male corps on Ro-Deo. I was told by an attendee that Peck adjusted the choreography to include ladies among the corps "players." Dan Ulbricht's sequence of pirouettes a la seconde was performed by Mearns, for ex. Link to comment
maps Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 (edited) Some sites I found while researching NBof C http://www.trabajadores.cu/20161030/xxv-festival-internacional-de-ballet-de-la-habana-alicia-alonso-romper-la-linea-puede-ser-un-homenaje/ 25th Alicia Alonso Festival's youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuFtV87p4ow , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWcxNIQQd6Y . Edited June 24, 2017 by maps Link to comment
Natalia Posted June 24, 2017 Author Share Posted June 24, 2017 Thanks for these links, maps! So the first one - if we scroll past the tribute to "El Comandante" at the top - lets us know that Ro-Deo was the huge hit of the run. That ballet continues to make a deep impression in my soul, after the recent Kennedy Center season. Remember that I wrote at the time that this ballet could become a calling card for NYCB on tour? I was specifically thinking about Russia. Little did I know that it had already made an impact in Cuba. Well done, Justin Peck & team! Link to comment
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