Alicia Alonso, the dream of a "prima ballerina assoluta"
Eileen Hofer and Mayalen Goust present the comic strip “Alicia, prima ballerina assoluta” published by Rue de Sèvre editions © Éditions Rue de Sèvres
By: Jean-François Cadet Follow
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Eileen Hofer and Mayalen Goust offer a comic book dive into Havana through the life and work of Alicia Alonso.
This Cuban dancer who was "prima ballerina assoluta", emblem of the National Ballet of Cuba and who will overcome the handicap of her blindness to achieve her dream.
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The story takes place in Havana, over several periods, between 1959 and 2011. The reader discovers the lives of three women: Amanda, a young ballerina with a future; Manuela, a single mother who dreamed of being a ballet dancer but does cabaret and tries to raise her son on her own; and the incomparable Alicia Alonso, who despite her blindness has become, through hard work and talent, a national glory and the figurehead of the communist regime. It is to Cuba that we are taking you today, through a comic book album that carries within it the warm colors of the Castro island, national pride and the daily difficulties of Cubans, but also and above all fate. of an exceptional dancer.
The comic strip "Alicia, prima ballerina assoluta" by
Eileen Hofer
and
Mayalen Goust
, has been published by Rue de Sèvres.
Report:
In Cuba as in the whole of Latin America, the art of transformism is quite widespread.
But very often it is men who transform into women in singing and dancing shows full of glitter and makeup.
But a Cuban has embarked on this art by creating a man character that is out of the ordinary, between transformism and activism.
Report from our correspondent
Domitille Piron
.
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