The Guadalajara Reporter

New state ballet company takes a bow in eye-popping spectacles at Teatro Degollado

Jalisco’s “reloaded” professional dance troupe had an exhausting workout practicing for two presentations on consecutive weekends at Guadalajara’s premiere venue, said Polish choreographer Dariusz Blajer (pronounced “bláh-yer”), the brand new director of the brand new Joven Ballet de Jalisco (Young Ballet of Jalisco). 

Nevertheless, both the corps’ debut gala November 15 and 17 and the patriotic extravaganza they presented November 22 and 24 were well received with warmer-than-usual applause and nearly sold-out houses at the Teatro Degollado, Blajer added.

“The dancers worked hard. It was exhausting. But we enjoyed it and the public enjoyed it.”

Many observers wonder how the Ballet pulled it off, since Blajer just took charge in August of the 18-member group, resurrected from the ashes of the Compañía de Danza Clásica y Neoclásica de Jalisco. One asset is surely the director himself, with a wealth of experience from his early formation in Warsaw as well as 31 years working in Mexico.  

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