Horizons
Dance on Camera Festival 2016
February 12 - 16, 2016
In Eileen Hofer’s film, three remarkable Cuban women demonstrate their enduring love for ballet. Their stories are interwoven to create a portrait of a country proud of its ballet heritage and of the dancers who keep it going despite the hardships they endure. Screening with: Cubano Bas (Kathy Rose, 3m).
Since its founding, the National Ballet of Cuba has produced many remarkable dancers. Eileen Hofer’s film focuses on three generations of Cuban-born dancers who demonstrate their love and passion for ballet: legend and local hero Alicia Alonso, now 93, the prima ballerina assoluta who founded the classical ballet company; Viengsay Valdes, a rising star; and young Amanda, who dreams of being accepted to the company’s prestigious school. Interweaving their stories as if with an impressionist painter’s brush, Hofer creates a portrait of three exceptional women for whom their native soil is a source of pride, despite the hardships they endure. Archival footage of Alonso in her prime poignantly contrasts with the frail nonagenarian who can still rise to the occasion.
Screening with:
Cubano Bas
Kathy Rose, Cuba, 2015, digital projection, 3m
Kathy Rose’s Cubano Bas shows a mysterious rite with poetic music by Greg Boyer. New York Premiere
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