Cuba Vibra! Lizt Alfonso Dance Cuba

(Auditorio Nacional, 9 August 2018)

One gets the sense of the New World in the U.S., London, and Buenos Aires. (Buenos Aires is not so new as parallel.) In the DNA of each of these places is to dare to reimagine.

The Lizt Alfonso Dance Cuba company encapsulates yet another world: the world of dance that has not ossified into gymnastics (the dancers actually hear, and contribute to, the music); the world of dance that could have been Broadway, Matthew Bourne, or classical, but has chosen to be something subtly different; the world of music that is as rich, or richer, than jazz, with its complex and multiple rhythms, upbeat and dreamy at the same time; the world of music that is home to the racing, dancing thought, or two, or three; the world of colours that just match; the world of dresses that bloom; the world whose all elements cohere into a poem.

Lizt Alfonso builds and then inhabits a world whose truths are beautiful.