The heat is rising. Hummingbirds even come into my living room because the poor things can’t stand it. Between that and the candidates without real plans, thought diametrically opposed to the poor Mexican inspection May drowns. Or I would do it more without certain lines of flight, escape valves in this reality where politicians ally themselves on what they should not and divide on what is necessary. As in the issue of discriminatory Unofficial Preventive Detention.
There is elections At the door, the music of the heat is just beginning to play, and we know it will sound loud. At least there are very interesting events in Culiacán these weeks, like the traditional UAS Festival and the José Limón International Dance Festival, in its 37th edition. I went to several of the events and one with great expectations, that of The Transience of Daisies, presented by Marion Sparber, which is a tribute to Frida Kahlo. It seemed to me much less powerful than what Sparber brought in 2023, when she gave a new color to what has been presented at the festival for years. Also, at the closing of the festival, the choreography Shared Levitation, by Marion Sparber and Alan Fuentes-Guerra, was presented along with the Young Dance company of Sinaloa. The event was patio in the Sinaloa Art Museum and on a platform about seven centimeters high. So it was not easy to see the conditions, it seems that the Pablo de Villavicencio Theater was occupied by an aestetic-style circus show. But that is where a Festival of international stature must close, where the National Dance Award was given to choreographer Sunny Savoy.
Lucina Jimenez, director of the National Institute of Fine Arts, was almost going to be there, but there was a problem with her airline that denied us the presence of an official and academic in cultural policy research, as in Mexico you can count on your fingers. And there, in a non-Ad Hoc space to feel dance, the event took place.
Even if the situation had arisen, I would have decided to see Marion Sparber’s dance over other events that same night. The fact is that her presentation, along with the last edition of the festival, was truly wonderful, poetic. I learned that in the Mazatlán presentation there were even some extra elements to the one given in Culiacán. But 2024 is not enough, there is not much possible, be it federal budgets for health, better tax collection and better use of it or an effective tree plantation plan for a hot city as self-mobilized as the capital of Culiacán. A two-decade plan, like the one applied in Medellín, proves to reduce the heat, and the future demands strong actions. I would have even had to flip my favorite coin, -(a German mark from the 70s)-, to decide between seeing Marion Sparber’s presentation or the Sinaloa Symphony Orchestra of the Arts, with the visiting direction of the phenomenal Enrique Diemecke. But there is mercy in the color of the air, and they did not occur on the same night. Even last night’s program, with Handel and Shostákovich’s first Symphony, will be presented again on Sunday at 12:30 p.m. at the Pablo de Villavicencio and with free admission (for the moment).
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