Azari Plisetsky’s Canto Vital | Ballet Nacional de Cuba….

Canto Vital

(Song of Nature)

Performed during the

Havana International Ballet Competition 2012

Presentación de «Canto vital» en el Gran Teatro de La Habana, el 7 de noviembre de 2010, durante la Gala de clausura del 22 Festival Internacional de Ballet..AIN FOTO/Roberto MOREJON RODRIGUEZ

Choreography: Azari Plisetsky

Music: Gustav Mahler

Rondo finale from 5th Symphony in C

 Dancers

Naturaleza :Arián Molina in Red

Fiera: José Losada in Yellow

Ave: Osiel Gounod in Blue

Pez: Yanier Gómez in Green

 The program notes described the work as an “exploration of expressive possibilities within male dancing.”

Choreographer Azari Plisetsky, brother of the great Bolshoi ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, is from a family of Russian actors and dancers. Mr. Plisetsky danced with the Bolshoi Ballet and joined the Ballet Nacional de Cuba after the Alonsos toured the Soviet Union. The Alonsos had requested that a dancer from there join the Bolshoi Ballet join the company as well as teach at the school. Mr. Plisetsky assumed the responsibility of teaching the men’s classes and helped develop the program at Cubacán (the First National School of Arts in Cuba), while at the same time partnering Alicia and setting choreography on the company.