Art for a price. (New Business).A world-class ballet performance in Mexico City Mexico City Spanish Ciudad de México City (pop., 2000: city, 8,605,239; 2003 metro. area est., 18,660,000), capital of Mexico. Located at an elevation of 7,350 ft (2,240 m), it is officially coterminous with the Federal District, which occupies 571 sq mi filled the Auditorio Nacional for three dates in March, despite ticket prices that ran as high as 1,200 pesos. Dancers from the top companies around the world showed off their moves to a tepid, though approving, audience, and promoters of the Ballettissimo event cited the success as an example of how large-scale artistic productions can succeed in a country often reluctant to take a chance in such areas. On opening night, New York-based dancers Paloma Herrera Paloma Herrera (born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on December 21, 1975), is a principal ballet dancer with the American Ballet Theatre. Ms. Herrera was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and began studying ballet there at the age of seven with teacher Olga Ferri. and Carlos Acosta Carlos Acosta is a Cuban ballet dancer. He has danced with many companies including the English National Ballet as a principal and the National Ballet of Cuba, and is now an international guest artist to much critical acclaim. (with the American Ballet American Ballet was the first professional ballet company George Balanchine created in the United States. The company was founded with the help of Lincoln Kirstein, and was populated by students of Kirstein and Balanchine's School of American Ballet. Theater) received the biggest hand in a largely Russian cast, perhaps due to their Latin roots. Herrera is Argentine, and Acosta is Cuban. |
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