Three dancers who defected from Cuba will debut this month in the US – Terra Peru

Three Cuban dancers who defected from the island a month ago debut next June 18 in an auditorium of Miami (USA), as unveiled today at a press conference.

Amaya Rodriguez, Masiel Alonso and Mayrel Martínez will act together with the Cuban Classical Ballet of Miami in the auditorium of Miami-Dade County, where they represent the ballet “Giselle” under the direction Pedro Pablo Peña.

“In Cuba we took what we were going to give the ballet” Martinez told a conference that offered alongside their partners in the Miami Hispanic Cultural Art Center, in the neighborhood of La little Havana, and during which he confessed that his country was “stagnant”.

The dancer, who along with Alonso defected during a tour of the Cuban National Ballet in Canada, said that the reasons for coming to the United States are “strictly professional”, although the reason economic “is always present.”

“Payment is not good, we have no chance of moving from one place to another, there is only one company,” said the dancer, who at the same time did not hide his desire to explore other styles in their new place of residence.

In Miami, the three Cuban National Ballet dancers will participate in the production of “Giselle,” a play that catapulted to stardom with the current director of that company, Alicia Alonso.

In assembling this month will be released, Amaya Rodriguez, former principal dancer of the Cuban company and entered the US through the border with Mexico, will play the lead role in dancer replacement planned for the season with an injury and can not fulfill his artistic commitment.

“Many dancers who have exiled have been here and many who previously came also go dancing in this role,” he told the media Pedro Pablo Pena, who noted that the for the three dancers were the ones who got in touch with him.

“My duty as a person from the world of dance and as a Cuban is opening the doors,” he acknowledged.

Uncertainty about a possible change in the immigration policy of the United States towards Cuba has fired the arrival of immigrants from the island to this country for fifteen months ago when the normalization process started relations between the two governments, according to US authorities.

In the first seven months of the current fiscal year, which began last October, more than 35,000 Cuban immigrants have arrived in the United States, according to Customs and Border Protection (CBP ) from this country.