Dances From Durango With Successful Presentation Gabriela Mistral Will Have A Tribute There Will Be A Ballet Gala On Saturday

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The Asociación Danzas Guadalupanas Unidas por Durango, presented last Sunday the 12th Dance Exhibition, in which around 21 local groups from various neighborhoods participated, with the Plaza de Armas as the stage.

13 years ago the idea of bringing together different dances to hold a contest was born, which three years after its creation changed its concept and was positioned as an exhibition, in order to summon some groups belonging to subdivisions and colonies, same as in At first they were few and they have increased over the years, reaching up to 45 dances in one presentation. In this way, the Asociación Danzas Guadalupanas Unidas por Durango was created, chaired by Aarón Aguilar Salazar.

This dance show has been carried out in the IV Centenario square, in the sanctuary, in the founders square, and in recent years in the main square, since it is located in front of the minor basilica cathedral and this has a great meaning for Matachines.

“Granada”, “Perpetual Help”, “Reunion”, “Guadalupana de Ignacio Allende”, “Sureña”, “Sacred Heart of Jesus”, “Roots of my land”, “Tajín Indians”, “Faith and Hope Guadalupana” “Valle de Guadalupe”, “Guadalupanos Warriors”, “Milagros”, “Guadalupana Divino Niño Jesús”, “Red Skins of Santa Fé”, “Navajos”, “San Judas”, “Renegades”, “Apaches”, “Tonantzin” and “Unión Guadalupana” are some of the dances that joined this project.

Through this activity that began at 3:00 p.m. and ended at 11:00 p.m., a cultural tradition that is part of our identity was revived.

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Almost 100 years after the arrival of Gabriela Mistral to Mexico, they will carry out two events that will be broadcast live through social networks, from the Manuel M. Ponce Room of the Palacio de Bellas Artes and at the Library of Mexico, the November 30 and December 1, respectively.

To remember the legacy of the Chilean writer in our country, the director of the National Library of Chile, Pedro Pablo Zegers Blachet, a specialist in the life and work of Mistral, will give the master class Teaching, one of the highest poems. Gabriela Mistral in Mexico, accompanied by the national coordinator of Literature, Leticia Luna Aguilar, who will moderate the event around the educational and pedagogical work carried out by the first Latin American woman to obtain the Nobel Prize for Literature.

This activity will take place in the Manuel M. Ponce Room of the Palacio de Bellas Artes and will be broadcast live through the social networks of the convening institutions on Tuesday, November 30, at 6:00 p.m., within the framework of the strategy “With you in the distance”.

On Wednesday, December 1, at 4:00 p.m., the Gabriela Mistral conversation: poetry and education will be presented, from the Patio Octavio Paz of the Library of Mexico, with the participation of Pedro Pablo Zegers; the general director of Libraries, Rodrigo Borja Torres, and the director of the libraries of Mexico and José Vasconcelos, José Mariano Leyva Pérez Gay.

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The beautiful Odette, from Swan Lake; Diana y Acteón, from La Esmeralda; The Slave and the Merchant, from The Corsair; the Seguidillas, the ladies and the newlyweds Kitri and Basilio, from Don Quixote, and the flutes, the flowers, the Sugar Fairy and the Snow Queen with their knights, from The Nutcracker, will be present on the town hall esplanade Benito Juárez on Saturday, December 4 at 4:00 p.m., in the free ballet Gala that the National Dance Company (CND) will offer as part of the “#VoverAVerte” campaign.

A set of classic pas de deux will be performed for the capital’s audience by Greta Elizondo, Alicia Hauffray, Bárbara Treviño, Mahaimiti Acosta, Scarlett Güémez, Mariana Torres, Ixchel Gómez, Sofía Martínez, Ana Paula Montero, Josefina Toscano, Juan Capellán, Alejandro Hidalgo , Luis Ledesma, Aarón Cuéllar, Maximiliano Díaz, Braulio Fernández, Jorge Larrazolo, Luis Mondragón and Uziel Romero, dancers from the group of the National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature (INBAL).

Directed in the artistic by Elisa Carrillo and Cuauhtémoc Nájera, and in the executive by David Bear, the CND is pleased to stage, on the occasion of the December dates, a quality family program at no cost for those who like dance.