The National Ballet of Cuba will perform at the closing of Jazz Plaza 2024 with Apparatus, a work by Roberto Fonseca

January 10, 2024

Apparatus is the title of the new creation by the National Ballet of Cuba that will be presented to the public on January 28th, at the Avellaneda Hall of the National Theater, as part of the closing of the 39th edition of the International Jazz Plaza Festival 2024.

The event, which will take place from January 21st to 28th, in Havana and Santiago de Cuba, will pay tribute to the company directed by Viengsay Valdés, on the occasion of its 75th anniversary.

"Historically, the National Ballet of Cuba has made collaborations with Cuban composers and choreographers; works that ultimately integrate our company's repertoire. Roberto Fonseca had the kindness to create a piece that Raúl Reinoso has worked on with our dancers. The result will be able to be appreciated at the closing of this event that pays tribute to us and in which we feel honored to participate," Viengsay Valdés has stated.

According to Raúl Reinoso, the choreographer and dancer of Acosta Danza, "Apparatus is a work in progress, which has the intention of transcending the scenic ideal to immerse itself in the personal and subjective dimension of the dancers. It is the motor that produces the movements and the aesthetics that resides in the interior of the subject participating in the creative process. It is a piece that invites the spectator to interact and know from intimacy the individual with their particularities, religions, preferences... In short, as fellow human beings."