Laurence Olivier Prize for Cuban dancer Carlos Acosta

HAVANA, February 19 (PL).—The outstanding Cuban dancer Carlos Acosta has been awarded the Laurence Olivier Prize for the best show presented on London stages during 2006, its representative Heriberto Cabezas informed Prensa Latina.

The performance at the Sadler’s Wells Theatre in the British capital in June last year and conceived of as the beginning and end of a rehearsal, included invited artists from the London Royal Ballet.

The dancers enter and greet each other, do their warm up exercises, brilliantly interpret their solos or pas de deux and modestly receive, with even a hint of disdain, the applause of the public.

Between one piece and another, props staff and technicians cross the boards to accentuate the air of apparent informality that Acosta imposed, with sagacity, on his work.

The performance left a trail of praise in its wake, the culmination of which is this prize, intended to distinguish the most outstanding piece on the London stage in the last 12 months.