Armenian, Cuban ballet dancers perform in Dominican RepublicJuly 10, 2012 - 13:04 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Viengsay Valdes, prima ballerina of Cuba’s National Ballet Company (BNC) received standing ovations during her presentation in the 6th Benefit Gala of Dance Stars, held in the Dominican Republic over the weekend, cadenagramonte.cu reports. Along with Armenian Tigran Mikayelyan, leading dancer of the Munich Opera, the Cuban artist showed her excellent technique in “Aguas primaverales” first, with choreography by Asaf Messerer, and later in “Don Quixote,” an original by Marius Petipa, with music by Ludwing Minkus. Dancers from another four countries offered their art in 11 presentations, among them the “Tchaikovsky pas de deux,” also praised by the public, with the interpretations of Argentinean Paloma Herrera (American Ballet Theatre) and US dancer Amar Ramasar (New York City Ballet). A special moment of the gala was the farewell as dancer of Portuguese Bevindo Fonseca, who, at 48 and after a hard four-year process of recovery due to surgery on his hip, performed “Renace” and “Makeba.” Top stories Paris Center Pompidou Musée National d’Art Moderne will host the screening of Sergei Parajanov’s "Triptych" on December 15. The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. Partner news | Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Meeting with U.S., EU not against third parties, says Armenia The meeting scheduled for April 5 is dedicated to strengthening of the Armenia-EU-US cooperation, Yerevan added. |