With the little things I feel great, I'm an angel. The play, see them, love them. Many do not realize they are there, but I do ... "
This is the synopsis of the piece" The Angel of Small Things, which won the young dancer Esteban Aguilar Dominguez of collective Broken Dance
Guantanamo, Actor award at the Tenth National Choreography Competition and Interpretation Only Solos, developed last November in Ciego de Avila.
The jury, chaired by Santiago Alfonso, National Dance Award, and recognized a piece that offers a scenic speech of deep lyrical and laden with symbolism (land, water, leaves ...). Seven minutes to ponder his expressive gesture repertoire and the search for original figure in the tables.
The Only Single-founded by the late Pablo Roca, has been for him and confirm space debut. In 2005 he made mention of choreography to "The road is back to you (The way back to you), recreation of the life of American musician Ray Charles ... but a distant antecedent appears.
In 1998, when he was twelve years, the theater Holguin Suñol Eddy was amazed at this child. The invitation of the Association Hermanos Saiz on May Festival responded to the award he won in the contest of children choreography "My Fantasy World" held at Guantanamo.
"From childhood I loved to dance and as I got older, he matured in me a love for dance. Also, in my family there are many artists, my mother teaches ballet and has been my role model. "
Stephen is a result of a creative workshop which later became the Children Academy Broken Dance, demonstration of what can be achieved with such initiatives across the country. Since 2002 the Company of the same name, directed by Ladislao Navarro.
"Broken Dance has great significance in my development as a dancer, but just beginning. It has given me a lot as a person and artist, has been my school and my second home. With Broken've learned to give more importance to things and life.
"In 2006 we had a good season, we celebrated the thirteenth anniversary of the Company. There was quality in the works, the organization, the variety .... We shared with companies Corpus (Matanzas), the Contemporary Ballet Camagüey In dedans, Free Dance and folkloric ballet Babul, Guantanamo. "
latter biennium has been successful for the young artist. Two Dancing in the competition, developed in October at the Athens of Cuba, won two honorable mentions: choreography and male performance for his "Kiss game hanged, an exploration of the innocence of childhood love. Next to his group, has won critical appreciation in The Days of Dance (theater Mella) Dance in Urban Landscapes (La Habana Vieja) and Dance in Public Landscapes (Holguín).
In her twenties, is already a prophet in his land. The Performing Arts Council recognized his work Guantanamo awarding him with the honorable Dance Award Elfriede Mahler-name of a famous professor and dancer American, based in eastern Cuba, "while the Hermanos Saiz Association awarded him its territory Young Creator Award ... but he walks looking into the future.
"To do a choreography inspired me in man, the feelings of the people, what happens in the world, in the environment. I always choose the music ... Beethoven, Bach, Mozart ... for me those are the greatest. The idea reaches the brain, you never expect, and things begin to birth. After adjusting movements are perfect with the music, mate. Perhaps invert the terms, because only then, finally, I write the script. "
Esteban Aguilar joins his excellent physical condition, the safety of his projection, he moves with versatility in the world of dance. And last but not least, your imagination is in full swing:
"I love dancing, something indefinable, something that is part of me. Someday I would create a choreography achieves the recognition of all ... I try to be better artist every day. "
And there are reasons to believe. If you feed your depth look at the little things, the angel wings shall levy within him to greatness.
Interview by Reinaldo Cedeño Pineda
Young Published in Us magazine, Havana, N. 216, May 2007.
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