Teatro Colón in Bogotá reopens tomorrow night after a six-year restoration.
Ten dancers from the Royal Ballet and the English National Ballet will help to get the celebrations off to a good start. Among them is the 'Colombian Billy Elliot', Fernando Montaño, a Soloist with the Royal Ballet and the first Colombian to dance with the company. Another Colombian, Joan Sebastian Zamora, who studied at the Royal Ballet School and now dances with ENB, will also part of the line-up, as will the Royal Ballet Principal Roberta Marquez and ENB Principals Elena Glurdjidze and Arionel Vargas. They are joined by the Royal Ballet's Valentino Zucchetti, Claire Calvert, Yasmine Naghdi and Mayara Magri and the ENB's Katja Khaniukova.
Tonight's dress rehearsal will be for underprivileged children and the theatre's official reopening will be on 25, 26 and 27 July. Montaño and the dancers have also brought boxes of pointe shoes to donate to the theatre's ballet school. ...continue reading.
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