With applause and bravos, they are saying goodbye to Bernardo Benítez in Advantageous Arts – Muricas News

Between applause and shouts of ¡Bravo! The dancer and choreographer Bernardo Benítez (1943-2022) was fired within the posthumous tribute paid to him yesterday on the Palacio de Bellas Artes, the setting the place he made his debut as a performer in 1970 and, as a creator, in 1977.

The instructor from Michoacán, a local of Tlalpujahua, who was a part of legendary teams such because the Independiente and Teatro del Espacio ballets, handed away final Tuesday on the age of 79.

The ceremony, held in the primary corridor of the best cultural venue within the nation, was headed by the final director of the Nationwide Institute of Advantageous Arts and Literature (Inbal), Lucina Jiménez, in addition to household, buddies, colleagues and college students of the instructor.

Amongst them, the choreographer Gladiola Orozco stood out –at 88 years previous, a residing legend of dance in Mexico–, who in her speech alluded to her instructor, buddy and in addition legendary dancer and choreographer Guillermina Bravo (1920-2013), who I used to say that solely lifeless is lacking a present.

He recalled the late origins of Bernardo Benítez in dance alongside Luis Zermeño and Mario Rodríguez: They had been a little bit older, they pretended to be actors and that's the reason they started to take dance lessons, however they had been, as they are saying, trapped with no approach out within the Ballet Independiente de México.

He affirmed that age was not an obstacle for Benítez, due to his qualities and willpower, to realize beat time and it appears that evidently he had began in that commerce since he was a toddler, by which he gained presence and high quality, he added, however on account of a shoulder drawback he most popular to cease dancing and dedicate himself absolutely to instructing and choreographic creation.

“His works had been necessary and spectacular, as Kinetics y Desires of seduction and insanity”, stated the creator, who after reviewing the necessary profession of the dancer and choreographer in instructing, concluded her phrases reaffirming her love for him and defining him as her son.

Lucina Jiménez additionally identified that instructor Benítez, in a disciplined and forceful methodchallenged that principle that whoever doesn't begin dancing early has no future.

He managed to search out, he continued, the paths that made it doable for him to resume the choreographic language and in addition construct his personal dance areas, sow seeds in numerous faculties, have colleagues with whom he helped to kind different corporations of his personal, and, moreover, have the generosity to search out in public faculties and personal these instructing areas the place he shared what he knew and doing, above all, that every of his college students might give beginning to what lives in them.

The official assumed the institutional dedication to undertake a analysis and documentation work on the profession and legacy of Bernardo Benítez, who, in her opinion, leaves a deep mark and reminiscence on Mexican dance.

On behalf of the household, Rodolfo Benítez Reyes, one of many artist’s 10 siblings, thanked the dancer and choreographer for his or her shows of affection and recognition, each throughout his lifetime and right now, and defined that it was not doable to pay homage to physique current as a result of, by household customwas buried within the Panteón Jardines del Recuerdo, within the north of the town, subsequent to his mother and father and his different deceased siblings.

Earlier than Bernardo Benítez was symbolically fired with honor guards and in the course of a protracted and shifting ovation, his son Joan Alexander additionally took the ground; the dancer and pianist Duane Cochran, the researcher Miguel Esquivel and Ofelia Chávez, director of Cenidi Danza.