He has had an extraordinary rags to riches career. 0000082 FRANCISCO RIVERA CONTRERAS PROFESOR EN . Yes, I did. His narrator, Oscar Kortico, is the sole survivor of four generations of a Cuban family, originally like Acostas fathers family of slave origin. Everyone had the possibility, but there is also the talent, and on top of the talent are the sacrifices. This world of writing is still new, and if someone doesn't like it, so what? When I published the book in England it was almost a bestseller. The director Icar Bollan presents the story of the Cuban dancer Carlos Acosta, a legend on the dance world and the first black dancer to perform some of the most famous ballet roles. At the audition, I went to some classes and sawboys in tights, so it was very strange and very boring. What did he do for his audition? Its a featherlight confection with an honest performance by Acosta, at his best in a scene where he dances with his wallflower girlfriend. Bertha Usey Acosta on Thursday, February 27, 2003 at 4:30 P.M. Beloved wife of the late Frank Acosta. It's an impressive first novel, and Acosta has already been selected by Waterstones as one of 11 "debut literary stars of 2013". But we are not scared. Nowadays my wife, Charlotte, says I eat far too quickly and suggests its rooted in my past. "They were doing left and I was doing right [in rehearsals]. This account already exists. I wanted to be a footballer. He hated ballet school at first he thought ballet was effeminate and behaved so badly that he was eventually expelled. Late last year, classical ballet dancer Carlos Acosta once again made history while in Cuba, when he publicly stated exactly what he was thinking. Was there any trouble with disgruntled girlfriends? One day I was approached by a producer telling me that the text had a lot of cinematic value, that there was a movie in it, and that planted a seed in my head. There were no books, and I was a very bad student as well. But actually my father really liked ballet, and he loved the music of Chopin and Schubert. a smacking kiss. But I had no other career and my teachers said, better get back to the barre. He remembers Lucia being taken away to hospital when he was seven. Caring father to Alexandra and Arianna Acosta. Acosta's mother and ebullient half-sister Berta are pale-skinned Hispanics. Lynn Barber meets the dancer whose rags to riches story is a modern-day fairytale. In fact, he acknowledges, ballet has given him everything fame, fortune, and a chance to give something back by training the next generation of Cuban dancers at Acosta Danza. He has danced with many companies including the English National Ballet, National Ballet of Cuba, Houston Ballet and American Ballet Theatre. The opportunity to reinvent himself, he says, "is also part of not getting stuck, monotonous in the world. I have the lower two floors of a Georgian house and a paved garden surrounded by lots of trailing creepers at the back. Yuli: Directed by Icar Bollan. Thats right, and were looking forward to it. Acclaimed ballet dancer known for his performances with London's Royal Ballet. Acosta truanted, failed his exams (and resat them) but once his talent started to shine through, and was recognised, "I then had something that belonged to me. -Well, very good. Acclaimed ballet dancer known for his performances with London's Royal Ballet. But then we met again. Did he invite her to the ballet? In January 2020, Carlos Acosta was appointed as Director of Birmingham Royal Ballet, succeeding David Bintley. There is nothing like it. So I did, and went touring with the [Cuban] National Ballet. Carlos Acosta: Up close & personal THE rehearsal floor of the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, with its fairytale rooftops view, is a world away from its gilded public spaces. So there is an argument between the two generations of Cubans the older generation, who lived through the Battista era and thought that revolution was the best thing that happened to Cuba, and the younger generation, craving freedom and not to live by any ideology., A darker duality underpins the book, which is dedicated both to Acostas wife, Charlotte, and his daughter, and to his elder sister Berta and aunt Lucia, both victims of schizophrenia. JR-How has Yuli been received internationally? He has his own dance company, Acosta Danza, based in Cuba, and is also a ballet master with the Royal Ballet, coaching younger dancers in his famous roles he will be rehearsing them in Carmen in the New Year. Breakfast was often a toasted bread roll which wed put into milk and add sugar. Yonah's mother Marilin, my sister, has done the costumes for the show. And carrots, broccoli and cucumber. In our Academy, there are not only Cuban young people, but also foreigners of great talent, but who are unable to afford their studies, their education in their respective countries. Acosta was a guest artist with the American Ballet Theatre during the company's Metropolitan Opera House season in the summer of 2002, when he performed Prince Dsir in Sleeping Beauty Act III, Oberon in The Dream, Colas in La Fille mal garde and Conrad in Le Corsaire. Which is a big shame., Besides madness, there is a great deal of sex in Acostas novel, some tender, some peremptory, some blackly comic. It took him three years, between rehearsals andperforming. By what name was Yuli (2018) officially released in India in English? Born in Panama City, Panama, Carrasco traveled to the United States on an acting scholarship to Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri.After subsequent study at the University of Illinois and Wayne State University in Detroit, he began his professional career in New York City, making his Broadway debut in the Circle-in-the-Square's production of "The National Health." "My father claimed that he gave me that name, because I used to say there was a warrior Indian of the Sioux tribe of North America, who was always beside me and protected me and I used to talk to. We met up, he loved the idea, he told me where the project could go, he came to Havana, BBC financing came too That was when he told me about his wife, who he works with. They were so poor that his mother once cooked the childrens pet rabbits because there was nothing else to eat. Subscribe here. Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian, t wasn't until he was well into his 20s that, Carlos Acosta and Marianela Nuez in Don Quixote, which opened in London last month. They find that incredibly beautiful. He made his debut in the Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor and also appeared in Cinderella, partnering Eva Evdokimova and Ludmila Semenyaka, Le Spectre de la Rose, Les Sylphides and as the Prince in Ben Stevenson's The Nutcracker. For the first time I didn't have an insecurity; people were taking notice of me and I liked that." I wanted to produce two realities Ive always liked the two sides of the coin. Carlos Acosta talked with Cuban media Juventud Rebelde about his new film Yuli being presented in Havana as part of this Decembers 40th International Festival of New Latin American Cinema. One thing I like about his novel, I say, is that it has a distinctive voice: pungent, original and funny. Circus showman Billy Smarts grandson 9m in debt and forced to sleep rough, court hears, Pigs Foot (Bloomsbury) is available via Telegraph Books at 11.99. I understand my limits. Carlos Acosta was born on May 07, 2004 in Portland, ME. He lives in a garden flat in Islington, north London. When it was recommended to me that I needed to travel to see my mother [because she was very ill], it was quite sad because I spoke to her on the phone and asked, What do you want me to bring? She replied: A lasagne. So, I flew from London with a lasagne but when I got there she was dead. My father claimed that he gave me that name, because I used to say there was a warrior Indian of the Sioux tribe of North America, who was always beside me and protected me and I used to talk to. His father, Pedro Acosta, was a truck driver, and his mother, Dulce Maria Quesada, often suffered from health problems. My high-pressure life means I haven't yet had time to assemble enough reminders of Cuba here, and I'll be searching for oil paintings of Havana on my next trip. There is still that sense of community and I would really like her to have that., He intends to spend more time in his homeland: What I am planning is maybe to have a company in Cuba, maybe a small theatre to run, and at the same time to dance things that are suited for my age and more contemporary, which is easier for the body. Later, mental illness is a theme Acosta's sisterand aunt both suffered from schizophrenia, but it is his father, Pedro, who worked as a lorry driver, who seems to have the most influence in the book. Pig's Foot is Acosta's first novel, which is published next week; it follows his autobiography, No Way Home, which documented hispath from being the youngest of 11 children growing up in animpoverished Havana family to becoming principal at the Royal Ballet and the best male ballet dancer of hisgeneration. We see the women being encouraged by their relatives to leave Cuba for the US. He has performed Basilio in Nureyev's version of Don Quixote, as well as Solor in Nureyev's La Bayadre, with the Paris Opera Ballet. And there was a really nice Cuban restaurant in Kensington High Street, which was very popular but is sadly not there any more, where you could have pork crackling and all kinds of lovely tamales. Tune in to my Facebook Page at 5pm (UK) / 1pm (Cuba) to see an Afro-Cuban class and a dance from their repertoire #worldballetday. Acostas mother and ebullient half-sister Berta are pale-skinned Hispanics. I think the problem is companies not working hard enough to actually change the fact that in a company of 80 or 100, you have no black dancers, or maybe one or two. His autobiography made that clear. [8]. That is what you are going to miss the most. Loving son of Yolanda. 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Twins can be 10 times the work. I remember when Iwas a student and a lot of my [friends] would rather play football on the street while I was working on the splits. Photo: Franklin Reyes, SFGate.com. ), and the racism that all but splits his family down the middle is shocking. Acosta is exploring life beyond classical ballet. That was in contrast to the 2018 documentaryNureyevand, despite the fact thatYuliis not a documentary, it is nearer in its aims to that work than it is toThe White Crow. 'It is only the tights that have retired,' he laughs. Grave Beltrn Ana Bertha Guadarrama Villicaa Sarai Teresa Guajardo Iruegas Jos Eduardo On Tuesday, the company announced that Carlos Acosta, the Cuban-born star who is generally considered one of the . I think it enhances the dance by breaking from it for food together. ", "Benjamin Scheuer's 'Empty Stage' is a Solemn Look at COVID-19's Impact on the Arts", "Relative Values: The Cuban ballet superstar Carlos Acosta and his English wife, Charlotte Holland", Bio as Principal Guest Artist at the Royal Ballet, Royal Opera House, London, BBC Hardtalk video interview 15 June 2011, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carlos_Acosta&oldid=1124636057, 1990: Grand Prix at the 4th biennial Concours International de Danse de Paris, 1990: Frdric Chopin Prize, awarded by the Polish Artistic Corporation. To me, though, the important thing about a home is not so much what is in it as who is in it. His mum seems chronically depressed, his dad Pedro (Santiago Alfonso) is pushy and prone to violence, if frequently tender (young Carlos likes dancing to Michael Jackson songs; its tempting to compare Pedro with Jacksons famously tyrannical father, Joe). And I think if you really want to be honest about it, there is nothing wrong with talking about something that is part of our daily life. But his father wasn't happy and pushed him into auditioning for ballet school with a view that he would one day dance with the Cuban National Ballet. And sugar, which the country grows a lot of. Rel: 12 April 2019. It's not quite finished because I've had a really tough year with a lot of travelling. Carlos does not know for sure how his nickname came about. I dont know why, it just came into my head, and I began saying, what if it is a very little hamlet in a very isolated place? The writing, he says, was very lonely and everything, but not nearly as painful as dance. Unconsciously, I always liked storytelling, without knowing that I could write anything. Less successful are the dramatic recreations of Acosta in his twenties. Carlos Acosta rose from humble beginnings in Cuba to become one of the greatest ballet dancers of his generation, and now he'swritten his first novel, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, 'Ive fought for what Ive got' Carlos Acosta. Lived In Tempe AZ, Phoenix AZ, Tucson AZ, Chandler AZ. You get the feeling that Bollan and Laverty arent interested in what Acosta got up to in London with the Royal Ballet, and cant be bothered to tell us that Acosta now lives in Somerset with his English wife and three children. "I really wanted to study them and realise why there was something important about that writer and book.". "Wow. Television performances include two live BBC broadcasts from The Royal Opera House: the Opening Celebration in December 1999 when Acosta performed the Man's Solo in Le Corsaire, and in February 2000 the role of Franz in Ninette de Valois' Copplia. Plans included the three-week 'Curated by Carlos' summer festival, which included the world premiere of Chacona, a new duet for Acosta and ballet dancer Alessandra Ferri, by Acosta Danzas Goyo Montero. DirIcar Bollan,ProAndrea Calderwood and Juan Gordon,ScreenplayPaul Laverty, inspired by the life and autobiography of Carlos AcostaNo Way Home,PhAlex Cataln,Art DirLaia Colet,EdNacho Ruiz Capillas,MusicAlberto Iglesias,CostumesJessica Braun,ChoreographerMara Rovira. I think my body will let me know. Gardner-Paterson was very interested in my story, but she could not make the film; so she put me in touch with Andrea Calderwood, who ended up being Yulis producer. Carlos Acosta was born on the 2nd of June, 1973. He was a permanent member of The Royal Ballet between 1998 and 2015. But his father who had meanwhile spent time in prison for a traffic offence managed to get him into another school and he suddenly blossomed. In recent years, Acosta has had a career as an international guest artist, appearing in the US, Russia, the Netherlands, Chile, Argentina, Greece, Japan, Italy, Germany and France. If they don't like it, they don't come. We have achieved what seems almost impossible in three years, especially since we started from scratch. Hear the body, but push that elephant little by little until you get to your destination. From one meal to another, one of them wants the toast and the other the fruit. Acosta at ISA, with one of the original National Art Schools buildings in the background. But he found England depressing because it was cold and he couldnt speak English. In every seat, there is a resplendent corps de ballet male. Carlos Acosta? Around age 10, I tasted chocolate for the first time. Yonah Acosta: 'I have to create my own identity as a dancer', the best male ballet dancer of hisgeneration, selected by Waterstones as one of 11 "debut literary stars of 2013". Sometimes even using intercutting, these sequences on occasion show Acosta himself representing his past through dance, while at other times another dancer is used to do this. Carlos Yunior Acosta Quesada CBE (born 2 June 1973) is a Cuban ballet dancer. His roles with the company have included: During the 2001/2 season he made his debut as Basilio in Nureyev's Don Quixote, and in the 2002/2003 season he made his debut as the title role in George Balanchine's Apollo. Carlos Acosta has had to deal with racism his whole life, in Cuba and abroad. I think probably this kind of reaction is reaching out for a helping hand, says Acosta. Luckily there were two Cuban dancers in the company, so he moved in with them and was just settling down when, after eight months, he suffered a bad ankle injury and needed surgery. I was going all over the world, Ididn't have my mother by my side. he says, again and again. I did some breakdancing and they all said, What the hell is that? Still, they accepted him because of his physique and flexibility. Acosta's rise from an underprivileged background in Cuba (the Cuban scenes are the highlight) to world stardom, his travails and struggles, and the evolution of his great talent. When my wife was pregnant with the twins she suffered twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome. Carlos does not know for sure how his nickname came about. "Inever had access to books before," he says. Or a pasta spaghetti with onions, tomato sauce and parmesan cheese on top and there you go. He lives in a garden. BERTHA CASTILLO ACOSTA: Ao de expedicin: 1976: Universidad: DIRECCIN GENERAL DE EDUCACIN NORMAL Y ACTUALIZAC: Ttulo: PROFESOR EN EDUCACIN PRIMARIA : Trabajo actual: Experiencia laboral: Otras cdulas relacionadas. No no. I want more to life than just dancing, I want to experience more, live more. He trained at the Cuban National Ballet School and accepted a dance position in Houston, Texas before joining England's Royal Ballet in the late 1990s. No Way Home: A Cuban Dancer's Story. It wasn't until he was well into his 20s that Carlos Acosta read his first book it was either The Great Gatsby or Catcher in the Rye; he can't remember which. His early reading wasn't a particularly easy experience, he remembers. It's about a two-hour journey from his home in Somerset, where he lives with his wife, Charlotte, a writer, and their three daughters, Alia, eight, and three-year-old twins. JR-Your company Acosta Danza was founded three years and three months ago. The Spanish filmmaker Icar Bollan offers a biopic of special appeal to ballet fans. Resides in Queen Creek, AZ. Its extraordinary to think how touch and go his early years were and how easily he might have dropped out of ballet entirely. The photograph beside my bed says a lot about my history, though, since it shows me, my mother, my 14-year-old nephew Yonah Acosta and my father; like the mere fact of living in London, it's a reminder of how life has changed since my childhood in a poor area of Havana. Episodes of savage violence and almost equally savage sex are punctuated with tender depictions of family life. Buy it for 10.39 at guardianbookshop.co.uk. Most recently Acosta was featured in "The Reluctant Ballet Dancer", a programme in the Imagine series shown on BBC1 on 9 July 2003 and presented by Alan Yentob. Charlotte speaks to her in English and I speak in Spanish, and the best I could give her is to be able to know that side of her roots, because Cuba is just so wonderful. This is a film by the Spanish director Icar Bollan working from a screenplay by her husband Paul Laverty still best known for his collaborations with Ken Loach. In 2004 he met his wife, Charlotte, then a model, now a writer, at a barbecue. A meal might be rice with beans, rice with plantain, rice with sugar water, rice with egg and sometimes rice with meat. At the invitation of Ivan Nagy, Acosta danced with the English National Ballet in London during the 1991/92 season. "I never had anybody to say 'read this'. CanFoster and Acosta rescue Cuba's lost temple to ballet? Yuli is also connecting with the public by establishing itself as a story of the triumph of humility over adversity. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. In October 1993 and September 1994 he toured with the company to Madrid, where he danced various roles including Albrecht in Giselle, Basilio in Don Quixote and Siegfried in Swan Lake. I want to be able to spend more time with Aila if I can, he says. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? A ballet audience looks at all the girls coming down the ramp in La Bayadre and sees they are all identical same height, same skin colour, everything exactly thesame. Don Quixote is at the Royal Opera House until 6November, and Day of the Flowers is in cinemas from 29 November. I had so much good luck when I presented the project to Tony Hall, former director of the Royal Opera House and my former boss, who was heading the BBC by then, he said to me: For you it will happen . So when my autobiography was quite well received, that gave me the confidence to say, well, I can write a little bit, and I like telling a story. Of course, it has been possible due to the extraordinary team that accompanies me, that follows me in my madness, with the good energy that they breathe; because we are all one at the time of launching the project, with a high sense of belonging in every member of this company. She wasnt interested in ballet. Anaheim, California. I'm constantly on the move between London, New York and my birthplace Havana, with spells in other places, so my Islington flat is my home for about seven months of the year. It's a good feeling." With that I would be very satisfied.. 2018. LONDON The Birmingham Royal Ballet is leaping into a new era. It may sound ugly to say it, but in my opinion it is a work of art. The boy crackles with life (he hates ballet! ", He is contracted to the Royal Ballet for the next four years, "but I don't know if I'm going to finish it. Though Berta only features in a few more scenes, she haunts this story. Im the narrator and anyone who doesnt likeit can f--- off.. These two worlds, so different, and the search for the soul along the way. The whole process of writing, I didnt know how to do it. Bertha Hesles Acosta, lovingly called "Nana", born October 19, 1940 in Eagle Pass, Texas to Jose Alfredo and Bertha Schroeder Hesles, went home to Our Lord on the Feast Day of the Epiphany, January 7, 2018. MORE INTERVIEWS:Arizona Muse on How to Live a Better Life/Irons Man: Interview with Max Irons/The Flying Scot: A Moment In Time With Sir Jackie Stewart, Queen Charotte: A Bridgerton Story: Everything We Know So Far. Jan. 15, 2019. Offstage, Acosta has the potent charisma of someone who doesnt know what it is like not to be superlative at what he does, an oddly egoless quality of absolute confidence. This can be rather confusing and it echoes the much more seriously misguided use of dance to illustrate personal history that featured inNureyev. I still think I can do it, so we'll see how long that lasts. So we used to gather around and tell stories and jokes, and I was very good at that. Spain/UK/Germany/Cuba. I've been grieving for a long time so when it actually happens, it will hurt less.". A writer for London's Independent newspaper described Acosta as "a dancer who slashes across space faster than anyone else, who lacerates the air with shapes so clear and sharp they seem to throw off sparks".[3]. At 18, he moved to London to be a principal dancer with the English National Ballet. In my early years as a school-truanting, break-dancing youngster I lived in a cramped apartment; now I'm a successful dancer but I don't really have time to be interested in flashy trappings and I have kept the flat simple and calming. ", Of his peers at the time, Acosta is one of few perhaps the only one, he thinks "who actually pursued a ballet career. I remember when we started in a room lent by the National School of Ballet, where we met from four in the afternoon, all tight but eager to devour the world. I had a pain-free life, I could sleep till 12, I could do whatever I wanted. My greatest wish is that it be an inspiration for other Cubans, full of encouragement, saying to my brothers that yes, results only come from hard work, do not give up in pursuit of our goals, our dreams. The motto at the time was: Eat sugar in order to grow. Sometimes, during the scarcity of the Special Period [1991-2000], a meal might be just plain bread covered with sugar. She is now shes an expert now! They had their first daughter, Aila, in 2011 and identical twins Maya and Luna in 2016. My baby! cries Carlos Acosta, swooping down on my copy of his first novel, Pigs Foot, and giving it mwah! A 15-year-old dark rum; a good Chilean merlot; a mojito. A semi-documentary trip through the career of the great Cuban dancer, Carlos Acosta, which doesn't seem sure whether it wants to be a drama-bio or a documentary, so it feels a little disjointed at times, however, it's an inspiring story. ", He recently watched clips of himself doing the same ballet aged 22, when he would do five performances in a row. They live near Frome, Somerset, because he wanted the children to grow up in the country, though he takes the whole family to Cuba for two months every year. Theaudience comes to see what you present. Carlos Acosta in Yuli: The Carlos Acosta story, Carlos Acosta and Viengsay Valdes in Swan Lake by Ballet Nacional De Cuba (2010), Acosta performs with the Cuban National Ballet (2009), Sarah Lamb and Acosta in Royal Ballet's Afternoon of a Faun (2008), Tamara Rojo and Acosta in the Royal Ballet's Sleeping Beauty (2006), Acosta in Don Quixote at his Classical Farewell (2016), Acosta with his daughter at the final curtain call of Carmen at the Royal Opera House (2015), Acosta and Darcey Bussell speak to Prince Charles at the Royal Opera House Winter Gala (2004), Acosta publishes a memoir, No Way Home (2007), Acosta performs Spartacus at the London Coliseum (2008), Acosta and Marianela Nunez in Don Quixote at the Classical Farewell (2016), Acosta and Zenaida Yanowsky in On Before (2013), Acosta performs at the launch of the Carlos Acosta International Dance Foundation at The Royal Opera House (2012), Acosta with a portrait of himself at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters exhibition at the Mall Galleries (2012), Acosta wins Outstanding Achievement in Dance Award at the Oliviers (2007), Acosta Danza company in Christopher Bruce's 'Rooster' at the Royal Albert Hall (2018), Tamara Rojo and Acosta in the Royal Ballet's Romeo and Juliet (2012), Marianela Nunez and Acosta in Diana and Acteon at the London Coliseum (2015). He nods. I thought, Whats all this about? He was appointed director of the Birmingham Royal Ballet in 2020. In my house we were not cultured people, he tells me. But sometimes theyd share with me some really yummy steak. Only a month ago it was the turn of Rudolf Nureyev in The White Crow and now comes The Carlos Acosta Story otherwise known as Yuli. Morena Films/Potboiler/The Match Factory/BBC Films/Creative Scotland-Modern Films.111 mins. The book took Acosta 10 years to complete. There was a Royal Ballet gala I remember, commemorating the history of the Royal Ballet, and I was representing Nureyev in Le Corsaire, and I was really good. As good as Nureyev? My father was a truck-driver but it was he who insisted I take ballet lessons as a way of keeping me from going off the rails; now Yonah is dancing too - he plays the young lead in Tocororo, has won prizes and is showing great promise as a dancer. 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