Bolshoi Ballet to Perform Swan Lake at CDMX’s Pepsi Center
The romantic storyline of “Swan Lake” revolves around the doomed affair of Prince Siegfried and the beautiful swan Odette
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National Auditorium Presents Jarocho-Riverdance Fusion Ballet
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Twenty years ago, British-born dance director Richard O’Neal, who spent five years as the assistant director of “Riverdance,” the internationally acclaimed dance phenomenon based on Irish folk traditions, decided to use his stage and choreographic knowhow to create a Riverdance-like spectacle that showcased Mexican ballet based on the rousing, foot-stomping dance style known as jarocho, native to
Read moreCenart Offers Kid-Suitable Opera and Ballet Fest
PULSE NEWS MEXICO Mexico’s National Center for the Arts (Cenart) is slated to present “Imaginary Opera, and Ballet Too,” an comic interpretation of operatic works and classical dance aimed at children, thorough the month of July. The series, which will be performed in Cenart’s Theater of the Arts, will open with a work by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart adapted to Spanish,
Read moreMen on Pointe Give Ballet a Masculine Swirl
PULSE NEWS MEXICO The Sinaloa-based, all-male ballet troupe Males on Pointe is slated to present “Men in Tutus” at Mexico City’s Esperanza Iris Theater on Saturday, June 18, and Sunday, June 19. The troupe, which is considered to be the first of its kind in Latin America, is dedicated to comic ballet for men in pointe shoes. Organized by the Directorate
Read moreRussian Voronezh Ballet to Perform at Mexico’s Teatro Metropolitan
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF One of Europe’s most acclaimed ballet troupes, the Voronezh State Ballet Theatre of Russia, is slated to perform “Swan Lake” at Mexico City’s Teatro Metropolitan on Sunday, April 24. The stunning fairytale ballet, composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1876, will be performed with a contemporary choreographic interpretation led by the troupe’s director, Alexander Litiagin.
Read more120 Mexican Dancers Perform Virtual Ballet
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF As part of the national safe-distancing celebration of Mexico’s 210th Independence Day holiday, the federal Secretariat of Culture and the National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature (INBAL) has produced a video of more than 120 dancers performing a gala virtual interpretation of the classic Mexican song “Son de la Negra.” The performance has
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