-The Instituto Municipal de Cultura, Turismo y Arte de Mazatlán and the Mazatlán Ballet Company will pay tribute to maestra Margarita Naranjo de Saa, this November 1st during the show as part of “Legends of Art” this Day of the Dead at the Municipal Arts Center and the Ángela Peralta Theater.
Margarita left a great legacy in the classical ballet of the port, indicated maestra and choreographer Zoila Fernández, and this tribute with which she will be remembered will be called “Forever Margarita.”
It will be a beautiful choreography accompanied in the musical part by the song by Albita Rodríguez “Que culpa tiene yo”, and works by John Williams that were part of the film “Schindle’s List”.
“Today it is our turn to have the high responsibility for the legacy, the affection, for all the love we had for that beautiful companion and artist at the same time. We are going to represent a little bit of Margarita’s Cuba, her passions, Margarita’s love for her partner and also her love for Mazatlán, all the legacy she leaves in this beautiful city, which she loved deeply,” exclaimed the director of the company.
Zoila Fernández assured that today the honoree’s legacy continues at the Municipal Center for the Arts, proof of this is that three of her students: Aramara Ayala, Martha Romero and Pamela Talavera, are part of the staff of the company under her care.
“We did not want to think about the Margarita who is not here, but about the Margarita who is alive and the legacy she left in her students, in the dancers who are part of the Ballet Company, and today she accompanies us in this tribute that I believe It will awaken many feelings and emotions in us and we will be happy to remember it on this special day,” she concluded.
Margarita Naranjo de Saa was a Cuban dancer, choreographer, and teacher who arrived in Mazatlán at the beginning of the new millennium. She was deprived of her life in 2008, but her essence and dance legacy lives on in the classrooms of the CMA.
