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Cuba is home to some of the worlds best ballet dancers. Photographer Omar Robles gives us a glimpse into their world.
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Daniela Fabelo & Daniela Cabrera #OZR_Dance || #🇨🇺💃|| #Cuba
In Cuba, the ballet is something of a national treasure. The dancers recruited into Alicia Alonsos storied company Ballet Nacional de Cuba, for example, reportedly make more money than doctors and enjoy a level of fandom reserved only for pop stars in the United States. The Cuban government not only funds ballet training but also subsidizes tickets to ballet performances. Lovers of Cuban dance like to say the adoration and skill is in their DNA.
You can find anyone in the street here in Havana who can dance as well as most professionals, Cubas Ballet Rakatan choreographer Nilda Guerra told The Guardian.
And in a country historically associated with machismo, its not just women enjoying the allure of ballet. Before, ballet in Cuba was a marginalized extravagance, the New York Times wrote in 2005. Now, men in one of the worlds most macho countries clamor to put on dancing tights. Cuban-born Royal Ballet dancer Carlos Acosta reiterates the sentiment: I wanted to play football and I was like this reckless child. But when I saw the professionals of the National Ballet School of Cuba perform for the first time, it changed my life forever.
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Javier Rojas & Keyvin Martínez #OZR_Dance || #🇨🇺💃|| #Cuba
Photographer Omar Robles has long been entranced by the countrys legacy of dance. He recently traveled to Cuba to explore the men and women who have made ballet such a staple of their lives.
Over the past two years Ive devoted my work almost exclusively to photographing ballet dancers within urban settings, Robles wrote on his blog. Cuba has one of the top ranked ballet companies, thus why I dreamt of visiting the island for a long time. Their dancers are just some of the best dancers in the world. Perhaps it is because movement and rhythm runs in their Afro-Caribbean blood, but most likely it is due to the Russian school of training which is part of their heritage.
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So much more at the link of the proud men and women of Cuba. Such magnificence. Omar Robles captures their human essence beautifully.
Bettie
(16,109 posts)and I have to admit, the dog in the bottom of the third picture just amuses me as the human flies over him.
sheshe2
(83,770 posts)Glad someone appreciated the dancers in Cuba.
Lol~ yup, the dog is amazed at the human in flight.
Thanks~