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Pilar Barreiro Mayor and Councillor for Culture Rosario Montero will come on Saturday November 8 at the last show of the dance show 'Les Enfants du Paradis', at the Palais Garnier in Paris, invited by the dancer and choreographer José Carlos Martinez Cartagena and this was his first major ballet as a choreographer.

In 'Les Enfants du Paradis' the heads of 65 dancers from Cartagena, on an original composition by Marc-Olivier Dupin, scenery and costumes by Ezio Toffolutti the star dancer of Paris also Agnès Letestu, a regular contributor to his previous creations.

The musical direction is the founder and principal conductor of the Baroque Orchestra of Granada, who debuted well in the Paris Opera.

The play summed up in two hours and two acts of the complex history of the film of the same name and focuses with him the magic of theater, its intrigues, its artists and audience, a whole range of celebrities and anonymous people of the first Paris mid-nineteenth century.

'Les Enfants du Paris "has been performed since last October 21 with great critical and commercial success in the French capital.

Jose Carlos Martinez running here his first world creation for the corps de ballet in which a member since 1988, and that is a star in 1997, but won the National Opera and in Paris with several of his pieces.

The last 'Scaramouche "(2005), for students of the School of Dance, Opera, the same year he created" Parenthèse 1' for the star dancer also Laëtitia Pujol.

Preceded them all 'My Favorite' (2002), premiered at the Paris Opera Young Dancers in the cycle in 2003 as in 2006 "Delibes Suite", a piece that went into the repertory of the San Francisco Ballet in 2007.

Other choreography of Martinez, who starred in the last years of the main roles of the Paris Opera, are 'Soli-Ter' (2006), a work which incorporates a reflection of Jean de la Fontaine on the destination, and 'The Smell of Absence '(2007), which takes place during the Spanish Civil War.

The dancer is the Gold Medal of Cartagena, as well as the National Dance Award in 1999 and Gold Medal at the International Dance Competition in Varna.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena