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New issue of Tablas

New issue of Tablas
Theater goers can now find Tablas magazine in the newsstand. The number 1 issue of 2007 with the picture of Josefina Mendez in the cover of the magazine, one of the four jewels of the Cuban National Ballet, who recently passed away. The historian Miguel Cabrera, one of his eternal followers, remembers her as "one of the most extraordinary women in our theatre". The magazine includes photographs of some of her great interpretations: The Swan Lake, Giselle, Don Quixote, Dionaea, Cecilia Valdes, Late in the Siesta, in due homage to one of the pillars of the Cuban school of ballet.

Great attention is devoted to two great events of the Cuban contemporary scene of last year, the International Ballet Festival of Havana and the National Theater Festival with venue in Camaguey. Yuris Norido reviews what took place during the dance party and supports the idea that the Cuban public is capable of admiring a play where fouettes prevails and also of applauding plays of a more dramatic fashion. Cuban choreography, in overt retrocession dedicates a few paragraphs. Here are included some reviews of Darien Sanchez about Good Night and Yandro Miralles about the Cuadros de una exposición (Portraits of an Exhibition), of Alicia Alonso.

The Festival of Camagüey, as everyone in Cuba calls the theater encounter is questioned. Some creators are in favour of the competition, others against it, but they all coincide unanimously in the need of protecting the appointment. Firstly the maestro Rene Fernandez defends the Festival and says: "I am a creator of many years, but theater still surprises and moves me. I was very excited to see the work of Laura de la Uz in Delirio Habanero (Havanian Delirium). The section the Critic's Job collects different opinions related to the staging in the competition of Camaguey.

Perhaps the most moving pages in this edition are those dedicated to the interview to Pancho Garcia by Abel Gonzalez Melo, one of our most solid actors. "I confess my mad and incurable addiction to theater. The profession of actor has made me suffer greatly, but I cannot leave it. I finish a character and I am already thinking of the other one. I suffer because I think that now, when I have started to understand so many reasons of myself, when I have discovered so many twists and I think I could say so many things precisely now that I am running out of time and wont be able to do everything I want. I work whenever I can, in three plays at the same time, and I live in anguish for the time that goes by."

This, and a lot more, brings the magazine of the scenic arts of Cuba.

Source: CubaSi

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