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The Washington Post Review about Cuba's prima ballerina Viengsay Valdes:

October 27, 2009

The Washington Post Review about Cuba's prima ballerina Viengsay Valdes:
 
"The role of Kitri calls for more jumps than just about any other classical part, and Valdes's flights in space were tireless -- and huge. But I have never seen another dancer who has so perfected the art of standing still. She could balance on the tip of one exquisitely arched foot for such a long time that some in the audience were moved to helpless laughter at the sheer outrageousness of her poise. I joined them; what else could one do?
 
She pulled off the amazing, time and again. At one point, she stood in perfect arabesque, balanced high en pointe on one leg, with the other raised behind her. Still balanced, she moved the outstretched leg into passe and developpe front, which is to say she bent the leg and brought it crisply underneath her, then unfolded it high and straight again in front of her, as if she were going to tap herself on the nose with her satin slipper. She even prolonged the balance here, luxuriating in the stillness of a theater in which not another soul was breathing."