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Ariel at the Bolshoi Teheater (1989). |
Without a doubt, Ariel’s biggest passion in his professional life has been the dance particularly the Classic Ballet. Knowing that he could return to acting at any moment of his life, he chose to dedicate his best years of corporal expression to it. Fortunately he had opportunity to take it to the maximum within the possibilities that he found.
He studied in the best academies of Guadalajara and later was hired as a dancer by the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (I.N.B.A.) in Mexico City. Its dedication and perseverance through several years led him to take courses and workshops about dance, participating in countries like Mexico (practically the whole Mexican republic), Cuba, France, Germany, United States and the extinct Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, where he had the privilege of being the first Mexican dancer that competed at Bolshoi Theater representing Mexico in the 6th Moscow International Ballet Competition (1989).
Since he started this career at a late age for body development (16 years old) but still mentally young for a person, his teachers not only guided him in the study of the dance, but forged him as individual. Some of them are remembered by Ariel as true tutors, advisors and finally as friends.
| Dance Studies |
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Mexico
1980 Contemporary Dance, Federico Iñiguez.
1981 Contemporary Dance, Onésimo González.
Grupo Integración a la Danza, Universidad de Guadalajara.
1982-1983 Classic Ballet, Deborah Velásquez.
1982-1983 Classic Ballet cuban technique, Tulio de la Rosa.
1982-1984 Classic Ballet, soviet technique, Farhilda Sevilla.
1983-1987 Classic Ballet, cuban technique, Elsa Recagno.
1984 Preclassic and precortesian dances, Martha Galvan.
1984-1988 Classic Ballet, soviet technique, Balukin soviet school,
Sergio Vicencio.
1987 Modern Dance, Graham technique, Tim Wengerd.
1987-1989 Classic Ballet, soviet technique, Francisco Martínez.
1988-1989 Classic Ballet, italian technique, Sonia Castañeda. |
Cuba
1986 Classic Ballet, cuban technique, Laura Alonso, Lázaro Carreño, Loipa Araujo and Fernando Alonso.
France
1988 Classic Ballet, Roland Petit school, Thierry Lefloch (Marsella).
United States of America
1981 Classic Ballet, David Howard.
1981 Classic Ballet, Joffrey’s scholarship holder.
U.R.S.S. (ahora Rusia)
1989 Classic Ballet, Sttutgart company. Direction: Marcia Haydee. |
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Mexico, Palacio de las Bellas Artes.
1982 Samson and Delilah (opera).
1983 Aida (opera).
1983 Hansel and Gretel (opera).
1983 Hoffman Tales (ballet).
1983 Don Giovanni (opera).
1984 The Nutcracker (ballet).
1984 El Sueño y la Presencia (ballet).
1985 Carmina Burana, Festival Cervantino (ballet).
1985 La Fille Mal Garde (ballet).
1986 The Marriage of Figaro (opera).
1987 Imágenes del Quinto Sol (ballet).
1987 Giselle (ballet).
1987 The Rite of Spring (ballet).
1987 Don Quixote (ballet).
1988 George Balanchine’s Serenade (ballet).
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Cuba, García Lorca Theater.
1986 Coppélia (ballet).
1986 Swan Lake (ballet).
United States of America.
1986 The Nutcracker (ballet).
URSS, Bolshoi Theater.
1985 Flames of Paris (ballet).
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| Choreographers that guided his learning |
| Pablo Serna, Onésimo González, Jorge Cano, Ana Mérida, Guillermo Arriaga, Cristina Gallegos, Nellie Happie, Sergio Vicencio (Chile), Irina Nijiska (USA), Dietmar Seyffert (Alemania), Gloria Contreras, Boris Tonin (Italia), among others. |
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