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. Carlos Yunior Acosta Quesada CBE (born 2 June 1973) is a Cuban-British ballet director and retired dancer who is director of the Birmingham Royal Ballet. Acosta is the father of an 18-month-old daughter, Aila, and the novel's sweetly comic mixture of scatology and transcendent love perfectly captures new fatherhood. So for months Dad made terrible meals. 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. Because the ballet world is such a busy, stressful business I needed the flat to be a place to unwind in. 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. He lives in a garden flat in Islington, north London. ", "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. Books were not part ofmy family. He has spent three of his four decades in rehearsal rooms, analysing every step. 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. With Carlos Acosta, Santiago Alfonso, Keyvin Martnez, Edilson Manuel Olbera Nez. Halfway up a fire escape lies an abandoned tutu an exhausted ballerina has stepped out of. ", What does it feel like when he goes out on stage? Unconsciously, I always liked storytelling, without knowing that I could write anything. He smiles. [1], In January 2020, Acosta was appointed as director of Birmingham Royal Ballet, succeeding David Bintley. . However, my sister Bertha insists that it was she who gave me that name The truth is that until not long ago, nobody knew me as Carlos Acosta, I was always Yuli . Lynn Barber interviews C&TH cover star, Carlos Acosta, This post may contain affiliate links. Morena Films/Potboiler/The Match Factory/BBC Films/Creative Scotland-Modern Films.111 mins. Sometimes wed circle around them like starving hyenas. "It's called youth," he says with a smile. He was born in Havana, Cuba to a family of both African and Spanish descent. Twins can be 10 times the work. 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 has performed Basilio in Nureyev's version of Don Quixote, as well as Solor in Nureyev's La Bayadre, with the Paris Opera Ballet. I think when the time comes, I'll know. 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. I wanted to produce two realities Ive always liked the two sides of the coin. This can be rather confusing and it echoes the much more seriously misguided use of dance to illustrate personal history that featured inNureyev. Though Berta only features in a few more scenes, she haunts this story. Each email has a link to unsubscribe. One thing I like about his novel, I say, is that it has a distinctive voice: pungent, original and funny. Carlos Acosta (born 2 June 1973), Cuban-British ballet dancer, director of the Birmingham Royal Ballet. 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. By what name was Yuli (2018) officially released in India in English? Im the narrator and anyone who doesnt likeit can f--- off.. 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. 46K views 1 year ago Carlos Acosta (born 2 June 1973), Cuban-British ballet dancer, director of the Birmingham Royal Ballet. 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. So I made one room a large bathroom into which I could fit the largest possible jacuzzi bath, which helps me relax and take away the ballet-dancer's pain of using the body as an instrument. London, SW6 4QL Tel: +44 20 7384 9011, Arizona Muse on How to Live a Better Life, The Flying Scot: A Moment In Time With Sir Jackie Stewart. 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. He was appointed director of the Birmingham Royal Ballet in 2020. However, inYuli, this element is subsidiary to the standard biopic approach and much of that works very well.MANSEL STIMPSONCast: Santiago Alfonso, Keyvin Martinez, Edilson Manuel Olbera Nez, Carlos Acosta, Laura de la Uz, Yerlin Prez, Mario Elas, Andrea Dolmeados, Carlos Enrique Almirante, Hctor Noas, Mario Guerra. 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. So why did he write his first novel? He was also interviewed for the BBC's HARDtalk programme which was broadcast on Christmas Day 2003. Bertha Alicia Acosta, 83. There was also the incentive of a free lunch every day. If you dont really have the sense of humility to let yourself be helped, you sink even more. Ido not feel guilty because I have been generous, but at the same time I've fought for what I've got. Acosta, of mixed Spanish and African heritage, came to prominence in the early 1990s while still in his teens, and North American and European dance companies began offering him lead romantic roles over the next decade. At times like that I cant help but cry. 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. Each Wednesday the students parents could visit, bringing homemade food for them, but my parents never visited. 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. His father, Pedro Acosta, was a truck driver, and his mother, Dulce Maria Quesada, often suffered from health problems. "It really has nothing to do with the audience. -Well, very good. ", Now that he is 40, Acosta's retirement from ballet cannot be far off, and he is already branching out he has been choreographing more and his plans to open a ballet academy in Cuba are ongoing. he says, again and again. Besides his novel, he has a leading role in Days of the Flowers, a film by John Roberts about two Scottish girls who take their fathers ashes to Cuba. It is not a Once upon a time type of story. 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. I personally wasnt very good with salads, growing up. She was a member of Holy Trinity Catholic. But when I was in Cuba, there were often power cuts when we were in school, and there were not many distractions. 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. He is slighter than he seems on stage, and he speaks with the incantatory phrasing and repetitions of a born storyteller. He thinks his peak was around 2000. Nana was a devout Roman Catholic and a vibrant Prayer Warrior. No Way Home: A Cuban Dancer's Story. 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. But they have to start thinking: 'That person looks different however, this is also incredibly beautiful. Birth Sign Gemini. Subscribe here. Buy it for 10.39 at guardianbookshop.co.uk. But it is very hard, because many people tried to help him, but he is a guy who is in no way approachable. Carlos Acosta? If they don't like it, they don't come. I'm already preparing for that. I think sex is a very, very important fact of life in all relationships, he says. 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. It may sound ugly to say it, but in my opinion it is a work of art. Im not retired let me correct you on that. [citation needed]. Obituaries Section. A teacher gave me a small bar and I remember going home, sitting with my sister and cutting each piece of chocolate into four. It's not quite finished because I've had a really tough year with a lot of travelling. He was an over-energetic child, and his father felt that his youngest son would soon land in serious trouble. Includes Address (7) Phone (7) Email (5) See Results. 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. On 5 February 2004, the world premire of Dance Cuba: Dreams of Flight, a film by Cynthia Newport featuring Acosta and other former members of the National Ballet of Cuba, took place at the Miami International Film Festival. In 1997 CBS News filmed Acosta for a special report for their programme 60 Minutes (broadcast in January 1998), following him during his performances for the Houston Ballet and relaxing with friends and family in Cuba. Right now, we have a Dominican, three Colombians and two Spaniards. It was his father who insisted he become a ballet dancer. 2018. Films that dramatise the lives of dancers are a rare breed so it is rather remarkable that within a short space of time we should have two of them. Who is directing? What I want to do is just old-fashioned storytelling, to produce some hours or weeks of escapism from this world. The rags-to-riches story of one of the world's greatest dancers, from his difficult beginnings living in poverty in the backstreets of Cuba to his astronomical rise to international stardom. Menu. We didnt have chocolate at home and there was nowhere in Los Pinos [a suburb of Havana] to get it. In 2006 he was filmed in the BBC studios performing a dance from Tocororo, which was broadcast on the Newsnight programme. He lives in a garden. Which is a big shame., Besides madness, there is a great deal of sex in Acostas novel, some tender, some peremptory, some blackly comic. 280 Hackensack St Wood Ridge, NJ RICHARD ACOSTA OBITUARY Richard Acosta Acosta, Richard 48 of Little Ferry on 9/13/17. He beams. He wants to give her a sense of his Cuban roots. We connected after I saw the documentary Full Circles that was about my dream of renovating part of the famous buildings of the National School of Art to create a teaching centre for dancers around the world with low resources. JR-Your company Acosta Danza was founded three years and three months ago. 1991: Prize for Merit in the Young Talent Competition, 1991: Grand Prix at Cuba's prestigious Union of Writers and Artists (UNEAC) competition, This page was last edited on 29 November 2022, at 18:53. But then we met again. Did he invite her to the ballet? 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. He was a permanent member of The Royal Ballet between 1998 and 2015. 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. "Iliked the reaction that I caused when Idance. Scriptwriter Paul Laverty doesnt romanticise either of Acostas parents. We already knew he could write. If I want to stick around for a while, I want to do it all, close to the level that I used to do when I was 25. In the end he produced a fantastical tale involving several generations of a family going back to the 1800s, against the backdrop of Cuban history. Career. After five years in Houston, Acosta joined London's Royal Ballet in 1998. The book starts on a sugar plantation his own family name comes from the Acostas, a Spanish landowning family on whose sugar mill his great-great-grandparents were enslaved. 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. In Havana, you cant beat La Guardia for atmosphere and food. Acostas mother and ebullient half-sister Berta are pale-skinned Hispanics. In every seat, there is a resplendent corps de ballet male. I'm a ballet dancer that's what I've been doing since I was nine, it's how I make my living. His narrator, Oscar Kortico, is the sole survivor of four generations of a Cuban family, originally like Acostas fathers family of slave origin. 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. "Wow. The book took Acosta 10 years to complete. "Really?" Acosta grew up with no toys, sometimes went shoeless, and did not even have a birthday cake until he turned 23. Our eight content pillars celebrate the finest in Culture, Style, Interiors, Property, Schools, Sustainability, Hotels & Travel, and British Brands. Away from ballet, he will continue to write, and he has also made a move into acting (he plays a Cuban dancer and tour guide in a soon-to-be-released film Day of the Flowers). "I never had anybody to say 'read this'. See production, box office & company info. 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. I have the lower two floors of a Georgian house and a paved garden surrounded by lots of trailing creepers at the back. 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. The prize was a years scholarship to any ballet school in the world, or money. The boy crackles with life (he hates ballet! I practically lived in Chinatown when I was with the Royal Ballet in London. Search by Name. There is nothing like it. Jul 2008 - Jan 20123 years 7 months. It was very hard seeing other students eating homemade food as well as that from the states centre for school food distribution. As you go down to the lower floor there are four photographs in the hallway of me in action, chosen not because they're of me but because they're by the dance and theatre photographer Anthony Crickmay. Acosta is exploring life beyond classical ballet. And sugar, which the country grows a lot of. My body's natural desire is not to do it, but I'm telling it, 'You are going to do it a little bit longer,' and my body responds with pain. It took him three years, between rehearsals andperforming. Acosta is married to the English writer and former model Charlotte Holland, and they have three children. I havent mastered the art of cooking. So we used to gather around and tell stories and jokes, and I was very good at that. Spain/UK/Germany/Cuba. JR-This Monday Acosta Danza Academy will be performing at the Mella theatre . The process of reading and imagining it took me a long time because Icouldn'tget past one page without falling asleep. ", He is contracted to the Royal Ballet for the next four years, "but I don't know if I'm going to finish it. It's a good feeling." In the first year there are 20 students, that is, 14 Cubans and the six foreigners that I mentioned. The "young protagonist" is played by Yonah Acosta, Acosta's younger nephew, and for six performances the central role was played by Jos Oduardo Perez. The Times-Picayune Homepage. My baby! cries Carlos Acosta, swooping down on my copy of his first novel, Pigs Foot, and giving it mwah! The novel opens in midstream of consciousness, with Oscar recalling the day I came home from primary school dragging a dead cat by the scruff of the neck, and continues in similar trenchant vein. Yuli, a film based on ballet dancer Carlos Acosta 's fascinating autobiography, No Way Home and featuring the dancer's Cuban dance company, Acosta Danza , is to be released in cinemas across the . Country & Town House is the go-to destination for trusted, inspiring and uplifting content that will enhance your lifestyle wherever you live. They're about the only reference in the flat to my professional life, which is probably a good idea. Acosta's mother and ebullient half-sister Berta are pale-skinned Hispanics. 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. The film-makers hearts are in Havana and, yes, their enthusiasm is infectious. I've started my autobiography; although I'm only 31, there already seems to be so much to say. . But rice, rice, rice. Dance Consortiums spring tour of Acosta Danzas Evolution opens at the Mayflower Theatre, Southampton on 3 March; danceconsortium.com, Yuli: this portrait of Carlos Acosta and Cuba is a dance film like no other, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, Carlos Acosta: My mother roasted my pet rabbits. The River House in Frome for breakfast; the Smokehouse or Roka in London for dinner; the Talbot Inn in Frome for Sunday roast. With that I would be very satisfied.. 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Thats right, and were looking forward to it. ", At the time, he was one of only two or three dancers who were black. It's a work in which the dancer plays himself in the present day scenes but leaves the more substantial acting to the excellent Edilson Manuel Olbera Nez who appears in the episodes concerned with his childhood and to Keyvin Martinez who portrays him as a young man. ", When he was 16, he won the Prix deLausanne, the prestigious ballet competition, which brought him to international attention. She tried to skip through some of the graphic descriptions. -Very intense and full of light and art: we have works choregraphed by Marianela Boan, Goyo Montero; Juanjo Arqus, resident choreographer of the Dutch National Ballet; a gala tribute to the superprofessor we all love, Ramona de Sa, for her high contribution to Cuban culture; workshops with Pepe Hevia, tours of the UK, Spain And we will do everything possible to be back performing in Cuba in the fall of 2019. Then I realised that Mam had roasted my pets and I cried a lot. It's important we see ourselves as a collective and have good vibes for each other but that we. In 2004 he met his wife, Charlotte, then a model, now a writer, at a barbecue. When I have an hour or so I go down to my dressing-room, open the computer and escape into my own world. His mother made good but very limited food. 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? Its very atypical because Cuban fathers want their sons to be macho to do football, boxing or whatever. This food is not going to run away.. I want more to life than just dancing, I want to experience more, live more. 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. let's check out the Carlos's personal and public life facts, Wikipedia, bio, spouse, net worth, and career details. But actually my father really liked ballet, and he loved the music of Chopin and Schubert. As he told JR, there are two versions. Contact us now, https://shop.cuba-solidarity.org.uk/departments/books/138/no-way-homea-cuban-dancers-story, Yuli: The Carlos Acosta Story film goes on national release check where you can see it Cuba 50. Studio 2, Chelsea Gate Studios, 115 Harwood Road, London, SW6 4QL, Country & Town House It's something that you develop. Carlos as a child (played by newcomer Edlison Manuel Olbera Nez) is easy to love. 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. And carrots, broccoli and cucumber. I think my body will let me know. Ive retired from classical dancing, I dont do Nutcracker or Swan Lake in tights any more, but Im still dancing.. 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. Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in, Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile, Carlos Acosta is a guest principal dancer for the Royal Ballet and is currently starring in his own Olivier-nominated show, 'Tocororo - A Cuban Tale', at Sadler's Wells. 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. Does it seem extraordinary to him that more than 20 years later, there is still a lack ofopportunities for black classical ballet dancers? With this producer we started working on the project, but then everything collapsed. Acclaimed ballet dancer known for his performances with London's Royal Ballet. I understand my limits. He won the schools gold medal aged 16 and was sent on a student exchange to Turin. He likes just "being. He hated ballet school at first he thought ballet was effeminate and behaved so badly that he was eventually expelled. But his father was worried that the older boys in his gang were leading him into petty crime, and decided that he needed to go to ballet school to learn some discipline. Carlos Acosta has had to deal with racism his whole life, in Cuba and abroad. The whole process of writing, I didnt know how to do it. ", But the issue of a lack of dancers of colour, particularly in the traditional companies, remains "a big thing. That is what used to happen when someone arrived in his old neighbourhood asking about the celebrated dancer, who last October was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Award, by the Royal Academy of Dance in the UK, for being one of the most influential figures in contemporary dance and inspiration for dancers around the world. 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. But Mam got ill and went to hospital for quite a while. There were no books, and I was a very bad student as well. "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. 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