#Cesar Corrales

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Cesar Corrales | The Royal Ballet | Photo by Andrej Uspenski | @dancersdiary

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Alexander Campbell's colleagues say goodbye

8 March 2024

Credit Rob Sallnow

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Francesca Hayward as Cinderella, choreography by Frederick Ashton, music by Sergei Prokofiev.

Royal Ballet, 2024.

Photographer: Charlie Dailey

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Francesca Hayward in Givenchy and Cesar Corrales in Alexander McQueen, photographed by Oli Kearon for Tatler UK, December 2022

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Cesar Corrales (Principal dancer with The Royal Ballet)

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Oh I am absolutely in LOVE with Pas De Deux!!! I am loving all the details about rehearsals, techniques, the little glimpses of anxiety amongst the other dancers at Din's skill, all these things make the story feel so real and tangible and cinematic!! And I love the way that Karga, Kuiil and Grogu have been adapted into the story, it all feels extremely fitting, I can tell how much thought went into this and it makes this such a cool story to read!

Also I am SO intrigued by Din's backstory here. Did he find Grogu like in the show, or is he Din's biological child in this story? Is Grogu part of the reason he left his old company? Did suddenly finding Grogu, or the increasing demands of fatherhood, cause him to join a more progressive workplace because his old one was mad his attention was so focused on the boy? Or was it purely for artistic reasons? I know you can't tell me outright because of spoilers and I love the way you've built up such mystery around Din but I want to knooooooow!!!

Had to stop myself from checking your blog for updates multiple times at work today 👀 once again, I am absolutely in LOVE

hi anon!! 🥺🧡 thank you so much! I am so happy you're liking the details. I had a lot of fun coming up with them (is it obvious lol). I have lots of notes on each ballet company and their training styles and their schedules... and so many videos linked for inspo. I'm going to share a lot of them as we go.

Karga's role came to me immediately because, well, obviously he's the director. Kuiil came later but I love him as a choreographer! We'll meet him soon. 👀

I love all of your questions about Din's backstory!! We are going to find out. 😎😈 and I think you're really going to enjoy finding out! I hope! he's a mysterious guy. 🤷🏻‍♀️

ooh I will most likely post the updates around noon ET! I've got a really strict work schedule until mid-Decemberish and my lunch break is usually between 12 and 1. So that will be a good bet. No need to wonder! haha

this whole message means so much to me. 🥺🥰 thank you for sending it!! I hope you let me know what you think as we go!!!

(here's a little bonus moment with one of the dancer references I used for Din - Cesar Corrales - he's shorter than Din but a similar dancer)

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Andrej Uspenski - Cesar Corrales as the Prince in Frederick Ashton's Cinderella, Royal Ballet and Opera, London, 2024

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hi!!!!! Can you rank the Royal ballet principals like you did several years ago?💖 I love William/Matthew/Vadim and Nela/Sarah🥰 I don’t really enjoy Natalia and I also didn’t like Lauren’s swan lake (the one with William), it’s a shame because I love Liam’s version of SL and I love William but her hands & arms were just not…🥹

Hello! I'm always willing to rank and share my opinions lol. This is my ranking from favorite to least favorite.

Women:

Akane Takada

Sarah Lamb

Marianela Nunez

Francesca Hayward

Fumi Kaneko

Natalia Osipova

Yasmine Naghdi

Lauren Cuthbertson

Mayara Magri

Anna Rose O'Sullivan

Men:

Alexander Campbell

Vadim Muntagirov

William Bracewell

Steven McRae

Marcelino Sambe

Matthew Ball

Ryoichi Hirano

Reece Clarke

Cesar Corrales

I think having 19 principals is a bit ridiculous, especially since a few of both women and men shouldn't be principals, but that's just my opinion...

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If it isn't too much to ask I'd love to hear your favourite roles of the ROH principals. As many or as few as you like

Hello! First of all, happy new year, I hope you had a lovely start; and also thanks for the ask :D Let's see...

Lauren Cuthbertson: hands down Juliet; but another role where I really, really like her is The Young Girl in The Two Pigeons.

Francesca Hayward: she's my favorite Juliet, probably of all time, and she always seems to excel in anything Ashton. I've also heard amazing things about her Manon for years, but unfortunately, I've never had the privilege of seeing it.

Fumi Kaneko: from what I've seen in person when she was in Bologna, both her Odette/Odile were nothing short of superb. 

Sarah Lamb: Manon by a long shot. I'd definitely call it her signature role. She's also generally amazing in anything Macmillan.

Mayara Magri: hard for me to say because there isn't much footage of her in principal roles, out there. There are some clips of her Odile (old and very recent) but I just don't feel her interpretation. The roles I've liked her in the most so far are Mercedes in DQ and the Rose Fairy in Nutcracker.

Yasmine Naghdi: I think Sugar Plum Fairy and the Concerto Adagio.

Marianela Nuñez: she absolutely owns most roles, it's ridiculous, honestly. But the ones she's the absolute best in for me are Odette/Odile, Aurora and Kitri. 

Natalia Osipova: I'd say Swanilda (ironic, because she said she hates this role), and Kitri. 

Anna Rose O’Sullivan: she's honestly a great Juliet. The role comes so naturally to her, and I'm kind of obsessed with her acting in it.

Akane Takada: definitely Odette/Odile and Titania in The Dream.

Matthew Ball: Romeo, Romeo, Romeo...did I mention Romeo? He's also an extremely believable, solid, absolutely hate-inspiring Albrecht. Special mention to Apollo and the little I saw from him as Rudolph. Also...his Tybalt!!!

William Bracewell: another great Romeo. And I was very impressed with his Hamlet as well.

Alexander Campbell: I think he makes a wonderful Basilio.

Reece Clarke: whatever

Cesar Corrales: the latin lover he plays every time he's on stage, as every possible character, I guess? 

Ryoichi Hirano: I absolutely love his Leonte.

Steven McRae: definitely Rudolph and Oberon. 

Vadim Muntagirov: best Siegfried and De Grieux out there, for me 

Marcelino Sambé: I really love both his Romeo and his Mercutio.

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Cesar Corrales | The Royal Ballet | Photos by Andrej Uspenski | @dancersdiary

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Cesar Romero and Nancy Kelly in Frontier Marshal (Allan Dwan, 1939)

Cast: Randolph Scott, Nancy Kelly, Cesar Romero, Binnie Barnes, John Carradine, Edward Norris, Eddie Foy Jr., Ward Bond, Lon Chaney Jr., Chris-Pin Martin, Joe Sawyer. Screenplay: Sam Hellman, based on a book by Stuart N. Lake. Cinematography: Charles G. Clarke. Art direction: Lewis H. Creber, Richard Day. Film editing: Fred Allen. Music: Samuel Kaylin, Charles Maxwell, David Raksin, Walter Scharf.

The title Frontier Marshal sounds like a generic Western, and it doesn't lie. It's about a stranger who comes to a lawless mining town and cleans it up with his fists and his guns. The stranger, played by Randolph Scott, is Wyatt Earp, and the movie is based on Stuart N. Lake's heavily fictionalized 1931 biography of Earp that established his legend as the man who cleaned up Tombstone by fighting it out with the bad guys at the OK Corral. So yes, you've seen it all before, in later and more celebrated films like John Ford's My Darling Clementine (1946) and John Sturges's Gunfight at the OK Corral (1957). Allan Dwan's film (from which Ford borrowed liberally) is a more modest affair. The famous gunfight in the movie  is almost over before it starts. Nor is Scott's Earp a particularly mythic figure; he even gets seriously beat up before he's able to seize authority in the town. If there's a mythic figure in Frontier Marshal it's Doc Halliday*, played with surprising charm and finesse by Cesar Romero. The character of Earp is also overshadowed by two women: Jerry (Binnie Barnes), a tough-as-nails dance hall hostess, and Sarah (Nancy Kelly), a nurse who has followed her former lover, Doc, to Tombstone, trying to save him from himself. Refreshingly, the two women are given significant agency in the movie, beyond just battling for Doc's affections. What distinguishes Dwan as a director is that he never seems to take for granted the material he's given to work with. Yes, Frontier Marshal is generic and predictable, but Dwan doesn't condescend to it: He gives the scenes snap and vigor, and he gets performances that are in some ways better than they're written. Barnes, for example, turns Jerry into a force to be reckoned with. It took me a moment to recognize her as the same actress who played the snooty Linda Cram in Holiday (George Cukor, 1938). Kelly's Sarah isn't the pallid schoolmarm played by Cathy Downs in My Darling Clementine, but a woman out to get her man. And if Romero, usually a lounge lizard type, ever gave a better performance I haven't seen it. I could have done with less of Eddie Foy Jr., clownishly playing his own father, and Chris-Pin Martin's milking of the stereotypical Chicano bartender role, but they keep the film lively. Scott is less memorable than the other players, but he provides a quiet stability to the film. 

Usually spelled "Holliday," but the alternate spelling was used, reportedly because of concern about litigation from the Holliday family. 

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h OW d o the Victims Squad feel abt dervish slimes ....... or puddles slimes??? h as there ever been an incident TM with hunter slime s

- my god i feel like adam would be the kinda guy to throw a bunch of random shit into a pile of dervish slimes and watch all of it fly around. he lives for the chaos and actively harms both his and jonah's progress at every opportunity but it's okay cuz they're having dumb fun. so yeah adam and kinda jonah dervish slime fan REAL!! (mark and esp cesar wouldn't like them as much because. messy. LMAO)

- MARK LOVES PUDDLE SLIMES THEY'RE HIS ABSOLUTE FAVORITE KINDA SLIMES he likes to think he connects with them on a spiritual level and whenever he's stressed he likes to chill with groups of them :] he even has like. full on deep philosophical conversations with them sometimes and cesar thinks it's kinda silly but they won't judge (he talks to slimes all the time). a & j wouldn't be big fans though n i feel like the puddle slimes themselves don't rlly like them either (they always put too many in one pond and get confused why they don't produce any plorts)

- oh absolutely. i think both pairs get caught off guard the first time they try to make hunter largos with like. plorts from range exchanges and end up getting injured rip bozos <33 the difference is that mark and cesar learn early on that you can use food to pacify feral slimes (because they actually. yk. pay attention to the tutorials) so they can recover pretty quickly, whereas adam and jonah try to keep them in corrals while they're still feral LOL. they only find out completely on accident by overshooting a chicken into a hunter largo corral and then they blame each other for not finding out sooner they're both idiots your honor <3333

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En moto hacia el color de la tradición en la Feria de Mataderos.

Marcelo Hidalgo Sola nos invita hoy a un paseo con sabor a campo y tradiciones criollas. Conocer la Feria de Mataderos, es asomarse a vislumbrar de que está hecha nuestra argentinidad tierras adentro. Desde 1986 esta Feria de Artesanías y Tradiciones Populares Argentinas, exhibe productos y costumbres de la cultura del campo, y también , es escenario del colorido de las danzas más típicas de nuestro país.

La Feria de Mataderos es siempre un paseo que reconforta el alma. En moto, se puede se puede llegar al corazón más gaucho de la ciudad en apenas cuarenta minutos. El camino es ágil y llevadero ya que, los fines de semana, la ciudad tiene un paso más lento y apagado. Por ello, se puede transitar con ritmo sereno mientras uno se prepara para disfrutar de un paseo tradicional, pero siempre novedoso.

La calle principal que lleva a la Feria ya ofrece calma e invita al sosiego. Es una ancha calle con columnas de árboles centenarios que forman un arco y dan reparo con su sombra. El aire agita las ramas frondosas que discurren en suave murmullo y puede verse el sol que se cuela por entre las hojas.

La avenida Lisandro de la Torre , en la semana, es una arteria bulliciosa de este barrio del sur de la capital : Mataderos. Sin embargo, los fines de semana se convierte en una tranquera de campo que nos abre a un viaje tierra adentro.

Una feria con el color de las tradiciones y costumbres camperas

La popular Feria de Mataderos nace en la intersección de la Av. Lisandro de la Torre y Av. de los Corrales. Los fines de semana es más que una simple feria, es un paisaje con el color y sabor del campo. La visitan por igual gentes de todas las latitudes– cuenta Marcelo Hidalgo Sola-.Llegan en masa: locales, del interior y turistas . Y el lugar, se llena de color y danzas. Grupos folklóricos despliegan un abanico de piezas tradicionales al compás de pañuelos en mano que son, en su mayoría, de los transeúntes y visitantes ocasionales que se suman espontáneamente a la fiesta. Zapateos y revuelo de polleras, se mezclan con giros y contra giros, mientras suenan sin cesar las zambas y chacareras. Por momentos pareciera una postal de campo pero no hemos atravesado los límites de la Capital Federal.

En el desfile de puestos se puede ver de todo. Y comprarse de todo y aprender de todo. La vista no puede abarcar la infinidad de artículos que se exhiben para la venta. Por aquí asoman ponchos, mates de todos los tamaños y formas, cuchillos de plata y alpaca labrados, mantas con guardas de diseños criollos, todo muy bien realizado y de calidad.

Cada pieza al ser artesanal, es única. Por ello, cada mate, cada poncho, y cada artículo que está a la venta busca despertar los sentidos de los visitantes. A simple vista, quizás parezcan similares pero la distinción está en los detalles. Un color, una flor tallada en la calabaza, una cinta de color que atraviesa una manta. Pequeños detalles que hacen que cada uno encuentre su objeto especial, como si el corazón mismo del campo lo hubiera acercado a su dueño.

Los puestos de la feria como verdaderas escuelas de la tradición

Los puesteros son muy amables. Están bien dispuestos y reciben a todos de muy buen humor. Al ofrecer sus productos, por lo general, también ofrecen verdaderas lecciones del campo y sus tradiciones.

A pesar de que por la pandemia muchos turistas se van de la feria sin probar el mate, se llevan una cátedra de cultura matera encima. Si la ocasión lo permite, los puesteros les explican qué es un mate y todo lo relativo a su particular ceremonia. Entonces, además de irse con un mate bajo el brazo, lo hacen conociendo las técnicas de como cebarlo , y de cómo se cultiva el producto en el interior del país. En media hora de escucha atenta, aprenden de las propiedades de la menta, del burrito, el cedrón, la cola de caballo y demás. Y de los gauchos, que decir, preguntan todo y todo les causa fascinación…

Como toda auténtica postal de campo, el recorrido no estaría completo sin la gran cantidad de ‘paisanos’ vestidos con ropas gauchas que con sus aperos recorren la Feria. Y, si uno llega para el espectáculo de doma, puede sentir que ya no le faltaría nada para ver. En un espacio especial de la Feria, se realiza el tradicional desfile de jinetes montados a caballo. Un despliegue de trotes y carreras en donde se luce la destreza y la belleza de la doma. Aquí, ante la vista de los jinetes y sus caballos, uno puede apreciar la bondad de un animal que regala lo mejor de sí a su entrenador. Un pedacito del campo a vista de todos.

Por ello, visitar la Feria de mataderos, es una excelente oportunidad para subirse a la moto y llegarse hasta el campo sin salir de la ciudad. Disfrutar del paseo, una buena comida al paso, aprender de nuestras tradiciones mientras escuchamos excelentes zambas, puede ser una muy buena oportunidad para reconectarnos con nuestras raíces más profundas que, por suerte, siguen vigentes y se actualizan semana tras semana, en estos pagos urbanos, a minutos de la City Porteña y del conglomerado de cemento.

Originally published at on https://viajeenmoto.com.ar January 23, 2023.

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Tienes faz de labrada piedra, sangre de tierra dura, viniste aquí del mar. Todo acoges y esculcas y de ti lo despides como el mar. En tu seno hay silencio, hay palabras tragadas. Eres fosca. Por ti el alba es silencio.

Y eres como las voces de la tierra… choque del cubo en el pozal, cantar de la candela, golpe de una manzana; palabras resignadas de sombra en el umbral, grito del niño… todo cuanto no pasa nunca. No cambias. Eres fosca.

Eres el silo cerrado, con el piso terrero, donde entró aquella vez sin zapatos el niño, y que siempre recuerda. Eres el cuarto oscuro donde torna a pensarse, como en viejo corral que destapaba el alba.

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Hai viso di pietra scolpita, sangue di terra dura, sei venuta dal mare. Tutto accogli e scruti e ripudi da te come il mare. Nel cuore hai silenzio, hai parole inghiottite. Sei buia. Per te l’alba è silenzio.

E sei come le voci della terra – l’urto della secchia nel pozzo, la canzone del fuoco, il tonfo di una mela; le parole rassegnate e cupe sulle soglie, il grido del bimbo – le cose che non passano mai. Tu non muti. Sei buia.

Sei la cantina chiusa, dal battuto di terra, dov’è entrato una volta ch’era scalzo il bambino, e ci ripensa sempre. Sei la camera buia cui si ripensa sempre, come al cortile antico dove s’apriva l’alba.

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Cesare Pavese

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Cesar Corrales (27, Cuban Canadian) - Principal with The Royal Ballet

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