Photo: Irene Pérez/ Cubadebate.

Ballet, a beautiful art of pointes, begins April in Cuba very active, in the so-called month of dance.

This Sunday the 28th International Meeting of Ballet Teaching Academies will be inaugurated

, which will gather in Havana almost 300 participants from 14 countries and all the provincial schools of this art in Cuba.

Such a meeting of academies from different nations

will promote the creative display of children and young artists in different contests and galas

that will take place at the Martí Theater in Havana.

As reported in a press conference, the

president of the international jury of the event is the teacher Michelle Bittencourt

, while the national jury is chaired by

Viengsay Valdés

.

And precisely the National Ballet of Cuba, led by Viengsay, also opens the so-called

month of dance in the Avellaneda room of the Havana National Theater

with presentations to please all its audiences.

The season continues today with one of the most emblematic pieces of tradition: the second act of Swan Lake, in the version by Prima Ballerina Assoluta Alicia Alonso.

According to the cuba.cu portal, the program for the first week includes Celeste, a creation based on the

concerto for violin and orchestra by the Russian composer Piotr Tchaikovsky

.

To complete the night they will perform

Three Preludes

, one of the most staged works by British choreographer Ben Stevenson, with music by Serguei Rachmaninov.

As of April 6, the program La forma del rojo, choreographed by Ely Regina Hernández with music by Ezio Bosso, will be added to the program,

a piece of marked plasticity, published cuba.cu.

Dance art shines in various spaces in Cuba this month, a prelude to the celebrations for April 29, International Dance Day, established by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) in 1982 .

(With information from Prensa Latina)