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With success of public and critic Acosta Danza was presented this week in Mexico in the context of the 8th. Festival of Dance Córdoba 2017, which is celebrated during these days in that city of Veracruz.

Before the audience that filled the auditorium of the ESBAO Center, the dancers directed by Carlos Acosta, presented a program integrated by the works Fauno, by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui; To Buenos Aires, of the Argentine Gustavo Mollajolli; the single Je ne regrette rien, by Ben Van Cauwenbergh; We, duet created by the young Beatriz García and Raúl Reinoso, and Refugio de Jayron Pérez; the pieces Impronta and El salto de Nijinsky by the Catalan choreographer María Rovira were also enjoyed.

According to journalist Karina Aguilera, in her article Star Dance for the newspaper El Mundo, the debut of the Cuban company gave Cordoba "the magic of its almost inexplicable dance, that which is too much in the scenarios and that is not enough for the heart , taking their bodies to the limit in the beautiful art that left more than one breathless ".

Aguilera also pointed out that Acosta Danza's artists "made the audience vibrate that did not resist standing up and applauding for minutes the chair offered by the Cubans on stage, to be an unforgettable night ..."

The Cordoba International Dance Festival in its eighth edition brings together about 1,500 dancers, teachers and visitors from countries such as France, Argentina, Japan, Korea, Russia, Portugal, the United States, China, Germany, Spain and Brazil. Cuba is present at the event with the work of important pedagogues and choreographers such as Maestra Ramona de Saá, Director of the National School of Ballet of Cuba and the choreographer Alberto Méndez, who presented on the opening night a version of his ballet After the Deluge , interpreted by the students of the ProVer Foundation and the Cordobés Artistic Development.

In addition, this edition of the festival is dedicated to the memory of the choreographer and teacher Gustavo Herrera, a personality of the Cuban ballet who disappeared last year and who had a celebrated participation in the development of dance in Mexico.