★★★★ Anyone who wanted to have an idea about the current panorama of Buenos Aires dance this week was in luck. On the occasion of the International Day of this discipline, the Argentine Dance Council (CAD) held its annual show with a wide range of top-level casts. Together with the talented students of the Teatro Colón school who opened the evening with fragments of “Sleeping Beauty”, they paraded interesting Indian dances, impressive tango duets, the energetic presentation of the Ukrainian dance group Prosvita -with colorful costumes and incredible virtuosity. -, all the charm of the coastal chamamé by the hand of Gente Cuera, and even a stylized bolero in the interpretation of Edgardo Trabalón and Sofía Sciaratta. The Cadabra Group was the representative of the contemporary segment with “Que corra el aire”, a vibrant choreography by its director Anabella Tuliano. There were two winged moments: the duet from the second act of “Swan Lake”, by the dancers from the Teatro Argentino de La Plata, and “La muerte del cisne”, a delicate performance by Eliana Figueroa, from the Teatro Colón.
Fulfilling the peculiar motto of this year’s Konex Festival (“Brahms and gypsy music”), Buenos Aires Ballet offered a brief but substantial classical and neoclassical program, with an even cast of young and talented dancers. Using the first and third movements of Brahms’s Third Symphony and the third of the Fourth, Emanuel Abruzzo created “Oda en F”, a Balanchinean choreography for soloists and a small female dance group, among which Milagros Niveyro stood out. After a brief interval, a fragment of “Don Quixote” choreographed by Federico Fernández (BAB director) brought Iara Fassi to the stage as the Gypsy, a role assumed by great artists and which today has an ideal interpreter in this dancer. There was virtuosity in the male trio (Luciano García, Alan Pereyra and Franco Noriega) and sympathy in Beatriz Scheller Boos.
In the finale, the ‘pas de deux’ of “La esmeralda” was the instrument to taste the exquisite performance of Rocío Agüero, a young dancer from the Ballet Estable del Colón. Jiva Velázquez brought her customary stage poise and her amazing leaps and turns.
