She is survived by her children Antonio Nunez, Angela Acosta (Robert), Johnny Nunez ... never passing up on an opportunity to sing or dance. She was the matriarch of our family and instilled ...

Beneath notice: Reece Clarke as Eugene Onegin and Marianela Nuñez as Tatiana in John Cranko's 1965 ballet 'Onegin'Photo: Andrej Uspenski Marianela Nuñez has dug deep into the character of Tatiana, ...

Don Quixote is described as a visually sumptuous ballet which showcases the company's technical mastery and comic timing. Company director Carlos Acosta said: "Amongst many achievements ...

Ballet star Carlos Acosta has a dream of saving the ruins of an abandoned Cuban ballet school and starting a new non-profit academy for Cubans and fee-paying foreigners. But a dispute with the ...

Which, in theory, might come as a surprise. After all, its creator, John Cranko, was not in the same league as those twin geniuses of British ballet: not the subtle, seraphic poet that Frederick ...

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But then, this was no classic ballet. This was the ‘Nutcracker in Havana’ at the Lowry, a stylised reimagining of Tchaikovsky’s world-renowned Christmas show - with a Cuban twist. The adaptation by ...

Cranko took the predictable love melodrama - I want you, I don't, actually I do, well now I don’t - and turned it into a full-length, three act ballet. It divides people - some love it ...

The adaptation by producer Carlos Acosta, one of Cuba’s most famous ballet dancers-turned-directors, follows the traditional storyline of the nutcracker - rat king, sugar plum fairy and all.

Widely considered America’s first prima ballerina, Tallchief is being celebrated by New York City Ballet, where she was a Balanchine muse, in her centennial year. By Meryl Cates The ballerina ...