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Bocca's Ballet Nacional Sodre brings Coppélia to Barcelona

By Graham Watts, 02 January 2017
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“Gomes is surely another South American ballerina deserving wider international acclaim”
Reviewed at Gran Teatre del Liceu: Auditorium, Barcelona on 20 December 2016
Programme
Coppélia (Enrique Martínez)
Performers
Ballet Nacional Sodre
Martín García, Conductor
José Varona, Set Designer, Costume Designer
Orquesta Sinfónica del Gran Teatre del Liceu
Julio Bocca, Artistic Director
Ciro Tamayo, Dancer
Ariele Gomes, Dancer
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Graham Watts
Graham Watts
Graham Watts is a freelance dance writer and critic writing regularly for Dancing Times, Dance Europe, Danza Europa, and many more publications. He regularly writes features for Sadler’s Wells, London Coliseum and La Scala. Chairman of the Dance Section of the Critics’ Circle in the United Kingdom and of the UK National Dance Awards he has interviewed many of the greatest names in dance including Maya Plisetskaya, Vladimir Vasiliev, Boris Eifman, Alexei Ratmansky, Andris Liepa, Sir Peter Wright, David Bintley and Dame Gillian Lynne. When not involved in dance Graham is a keen fencer, and has captained the British Sabre team.