Recuentos de ballet patrocinados por el Estado humildes orígenes del líder carismático a su transformación en la "guía de la lucha de los del pueblo venezolano luchas
En los 14 años que el presidente Hugo Chávez gobernaba Venezuela iba a menudo aparecen en el escenario o en la televisión vestido con uniforme militar, uniforme de béisbol, su marca registrada guayabera roja e incluso en traje tradicional indígena aymara.
Ni una sola vez usar medias.
Este sábado, sin embargo, un ballet patrocinado por el estado narrando la vida del líder carismático - del humilde infancia a la fama mundial - se celebrará en Caracas para conmemorar el 22 aniversario del fallido intento de golpe de 1992 que puso en marcha la carrera política de Chávez.
La pieza, De Spider-Vendedor de Libertador, está más o menos basada en una serie de reminiscencias personales extraídos de los discursos finales de los presidente y su programa semanal de televisión Aló Presidente. Un equipo de periodistas cubanos peinado a través de miles de horas, la selección de las anécdotas folclóricas infantiles que caería en los decretos estatales y anuncios políticos.
According to the advance publicity, the show takes the viewer from President Chávez’s humble origins in the state of Barinas to his transformation into “the guide of the fights of the Venezuelan people’s struggles”. The work’s name is drawn from the spider-web sweets which Chávez sold on the streets as a boy.
A previous staging of the state-sponsored piece earlier this year saw more than 40 artists on stage, combining live music with video art and circus-like antics.
The work begins with a recording of Chávez’s voice saying: “I was like a seed which fell on hard ground,” before a female character representing the mother country takes to the stage; she later dances a pas de deux with the male dancer portraying Chávez.
Throughout the work, Chávez’s voice can be heard overhead while footage of key moments from Venezuelan history and the president’s life are projected behind the dancer.
“People won’t go to see a ballet performance. They want to see their leader’s life set on stage,” said the critic Marcy Alejandra Rangel, who reviewed the piece’s debut performance.
“It was both weird and emotional. On one hand you were watching Chávez as a military or a baseball player pirouetting on stage, and on the other hand you were seeing an audience rally around the memory of their late leader,” Marcy said.
At one point, a male voice narrates how Chávez, a baseball aficionado, takes to the field and hits a home run. “The left-handed Chávez runs and cartwheels across the stage as his perfectly defined body touches home in his white, flexible pants and perfectly pointed bare feet,” wrote Rangel in her review.
Critics have decried the show as another propaganda work designed to sustain the myth of Chávez, who died of cancer last year. The late president still looms large in Venezuelan daily life: his signature adorns the facade of hundreds of public housing projects, and an image of his eyes is graffitied on walls and buildings across the country.
Tickets for Saturday’s one-off show will cost $16-$44 at the official currency rate, or $0.80-$2.30 on the black market for dollars.
source- http://www.theguardian.com/
En los 14 años que el presidente Hugo Chávez gobernaba Venezuela iba a menudo aparecen en el escenario o en la televisión vestido con uniforme militar, uniforme de béisbol, su marca registrada guayabera roja e incluso en traje tradicional indígena aymara.
Ni una sola vez usar medias.
Este sábado, sin embargo, un ballet patrocinado por el estado narrando la vida del líder carismático - del humilde infancia a la fama mundial - se celebrará en Caracas para conmemorar el 22 aniversario del fallido intento de golpe de 1992 que puso en marcha la carrera política de Chávez.
La pieza, De Spider-Vendedor de Libertador, está más o menos basada en una serie de reminiscencias personales extraídos de los discursos finales de los presidente y su programa semanal de televisión Aló Presidente. Un equipo de periodistas cubanos peinado a través de miles de horas, la selección de las anécdotas folclóricas infantiles que caería en los decretos estatales y anuncios políticos.
According to the advance publicity, the show takes the viewer from President Chávez’s humble origins in the state of Barinas to his transformation into “the guide of the fights of the Venezuelan people’s struggles”. The work’s name is drawn from the spider-web sweets which Chávez sold on the streets as a boy.
A previous staging of the state-sponsored piece earlier this year saw more than 40 artists on stage, combining live music with video art and circus-like antics.
The work begins with a recording of Chávez’s voice saying: “I was like a seed which fell on hard ground,” before a female character representing the mother country takes to the stage; she later dances a pas de deux with the male dancer portraying Chávez.
Throughout the work, Chávez’s voice can be heard overhead while footage of key moments from Venezuelan history and the president’s life are projected behind the dancer.
“People won’t go to see a ballet performance. They want to see their leader’s life set on stage,” said the critic Marcy Alejandra Rangel, who reviewed the piece’s debut performance.
“It was both weird and emotional. On one hand you were watching Chávez as a military or a baseball player pirouetting on stage, and on the other hand you were seeing an audience rally around the memory of their late leader,” Marcy said.
At one point, a male voice narrates how Chávez, a baseball aficionado, takes to the field and hits a home run. “The left-handed Chávez runs and cartwheels across the stage as his perfectly defined body touches home in his white, flexible pants and perfectly pointed bare feet,” wrote Rangel in her review.
Critics have decried the show as another propaganda work designed to sustain the myth of Chávez, who died of cancer last year. The late president still looms large in Venezuelan daily life: his signature adorns the facade of hundreds of public housing projects, and an image of his eyes is graffitied on walls and buildings across the country.
Tickets for Saturday’s one-off show will cost $16-$44 at the official currency rate, or $0.80-$2.30 on the black market for dollars.
source- http://www.theguardian.com/