Well I have, but not live. And I’m a little bit frightened by this woman Alicia Alonso.
She’s very good friends with Fidel Castro, as you can see. She’s a woman who claims to live to 200, a partially blind woman who performed as a ballet dancer for many years, a woman who founded the National Ballet of Cuba in 1948, and a woman who insists to be running the company still in a 100 years’ time (what a haunted company this Ballet de Cuba will become).
Nonetheless (with me being a bit frightened and all), I will be going to the Coliseum tomorrow to see Magia de la Danza, a mixed bill which brings together extracts from seven of the company’s most famous ballets such as The Nutcracker and Swan Lake.
I’ve decided a long time ago that I don’t like ballet. Still my expectations are ambivalent because I’ve danced ballet, I’ve studied ballet if you want to call it that, so I can say it’s no good, but at the same time I’m exited about what it will be like to see a ballet. Will I laugh, will I cry, will I shout, will I die?
How I will cope is to be continued…
