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Cuban National Ballet on Tour around Brazil in July.

CUBA, June 14, 2011.- The Cuban National Ballet (BNC) will travel in July to Brazil for the premiere outside of the Caribbean nation of “La leyenda del agua grande”, a piece on a Guarani story about the origin of the Iguazu falls.

Sources of the BNC told ACN that it will be the first occasion in which the Cuban company takes a version of a non-classic piece to the international stage.

Under the direction of prima ballerina assoluta Alicia Alonso, the company will offer two performances in Brasilia, three in Salvador de Bahia, and five in Sao Paulo.

This version of the legend on the Iguazu falls is a Cuban tribute to the culture of Guarani natives who live in reservations in Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay.

Conceived in two acts, the piece had its premiere in Havana in May 2010.

Choreographed by Eduardo Blanco and with music by Miguel Nuñez, the ballet narrates the love between the warrior Taroba and the native Naipi, destined to be sacrificed to Mboi Tui, a monster of the Guarani mythology, to whom the creation of the Iguazu falls is ascribed, according to the legend. (Cubaminrex-ACN)

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