One is said to have completed one of the circles of life when after a long series of events the same situation with which one began still exists, but it takes on a new meaning. Eight years ago, when the balletista Maria Clara Ambrosini was 15, participated in one of the most famous numbers of classical ballet, the corsair. Now, at almost 23, he presents the work as the director of artiumballet school that he directs since 2020.
This is the first gala of that school that puts its 25 students on stage in the Experimental Hall of the Art Center Theater (km 4.5 av. Carlos Julio Arosemena), this Thursday, February 24 at 7:30 p.m. It is an event open to the public and tickets are $25 per person (available at the box office).
Artium It is an initiative of María Clara that emerged at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic and from her concern about the direction of ballet in the midst of confinements and quarantines. “I wanted to continue this art in the way that I can in the midst of confinement,” explains the dancer specializing in the Russian technique Vaganova, who studied for fourteen years at the Russian Ballet School of the late teacher Ana Wiesner and specialized in international seminars.
Indeed, she has won gold medals at Danzaeuropa in Italy and at the Miami International Ballet Competition, a bronze medal at the Valentina Kozlova International Ballet Competition in New York, a silver medal and the title of Outstanding International Dancer at the American Dance Competition in Daytona.
“I had students who gave them private lessons long before the pandemic, then the modality began on-line and they asked me for classes this way. With ballet friends we also connected to have classes together and never stop training. I realized that we could get together and start something.”
Artium classes develop just where Wiesner classes operated and now one of her most talented students has become the teacher. Those who believe that destiny has a plan could say that this fact was written since María Clara set foot in this studio when she barely stopped being a baby.
“My first ballet performance with Anita was actually the corsair at 3 years old and it was also the last one with her. When I remembered these presentations I got goosebumps and I started to cry, throughout this process I have felt that she has been with me, accompanying me precisely in the room where she taught me everything”, shares Ambrosini.
the corsair tells the love story between a pirate and a slave on the shores of Turkey. It is a plot of passion and betrayal, and its ending is tragic. The piece, inspired by a lord byron poem (one of the most important writers of Romanticism), focuses on the odalisques Medora and Gulnaraknown as the maidens of the sultan’s wife, in the skin of the students Nicole Coka and Fiorella Jurado.
This piece not only holds great meaning for María Clara, it will also be eternally memorable for her students and their parents who are “very excited”, as the young teacher says, to see the results of almost a year of vocation and dedication.
Artium stages the suite the animated garden (The anime garden), which forms the third act of the original play. “I chose this ballet because it is not very long, it lasts an hour, for new dads who are new to ballet and do not have a boy, it also allows younger girls to dance.”
the animated garden is he Pasha’s dream, the Arab sheikh who buys the odalisques. In it, they are seen dancing with giant flowers, in an enchanted scenery in pink and white that has also been intervened by María Clara, with “her own hands”, she says. “It is the first time that I am as the main producer of an event, because apart from my career as a dancer, scenography and choreographic production have always interested me.”
When asked if in this way he feels that he is retaking the steps of Wiesner in Artium, he assures without hesitation that he is. “I’m following the work that she left usthat dance in Ecuador is not only commercial, and rescue and revive classical ballet, Russian, as she taught us, “he adds.
“The last thing she said to me before she left for the US (where the choreographer died) was ‘I know I can go in peace, because I left you high’. We didn’t know if we were going to see each other again, but it didn’t happen, Diosito took her to continue dancing up there and I think she would tell me that she is happy and proud that I am still with her. Just as she instilled in us, that we never forget where we come from and that we always remember our teacher.”
For this reason, María Clara will surprise everyone when she performs together with the first guest dancer Álvaro Monar the pas de deux of this classic that is considered one of the most famous excerpts from ballet. This marks his return to the big stages with this dance that has become one of the milestones in his artistic and personal history.
Source: Eluniverso
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