by the El Reportero’s wire services
Festival Internacional de Danza Contemporánea
MANAGUA, (Prensa Latina) The 18th International Dance Festival starts here today and will run until Aug. 26, with guest dancers from Costa Rica, El Salvador and Nicaragua.
The National Ruben Darío Theater will host the opening, with shows to reach other theatres from the capital and the city of Granada.
The meeting will be dedicated to the Finnish artist Tarja Rinne, for her work to improve dance in Nicaragua, reported the newspaper La Prensa.
The National Salvadoran Company, the Paola Lorenzana (Costa Rica) and Hijos del Otro, will be among other foreign companies to perform.
Workshops on contemporary dance will be taught by Rinne at the National School and at the Nicaraguan Academy.
Nickelodeon Actress Maria Gabriela de Faria To Make Big Screen Debut
This is the time of Venezuelan actress Maria Gabriela de Faria’s life – not only is she nominated for the Kids’ Choice Awards Mexico but she’s out to conquer the world of movies and music.
The 19-year-old De Faria, who plays the evil witch Mia in the popular Nickelodeon teen series Grachi, will play the part of the rebellious daughter of John Leguizamo and Karen Martínez in the Spanish-language film El Paseo 2 that has just finished filming in Colombia.
“I never did movies, and this has been a wonderful chance with two great actors. I’m so excited!” said the Caracas native who began her career at the age of 5 in television commercials and telenovelas like Ser Bonita No Basta (Being Pretty Isn’t Enough) and the children’s series Tukiti, Creci de Una (Tukiti, I Grew From One).
Later Maria Gabriela soared to international fame with the Nickelodeon series Isa TKM and Isa TK+.
“I always loved acting. It’s really interesting work because you have to understand everything about human nature, both in its bright side and its dark side,” she said.
“Right now I’m working on my album, but I can’t say much about it yet in the way of details. I can only say that my disc will be very youthful and very much like me,” said the fan of Pink and Beyonce, to whom she looks for inspiration when it’s time to create.
Mexico establishes new award for literary translation
A new award bearing the name of Spanish-born Mexican author, translator and poet Tomas Segovia (1927-2011) has been created to honor outstanding work in literary translation, Mexican cultural officials said.
The prize recognizes translations that “bring the Hispanic literary tradition to other languages,” National Culture and Arts Council, or Conaculta, president Consuelo Saizar said in a press conference Wednesday in this western Mexican city.
The honor carries a cash prize of $100,000 and is financed by Conaculta in partnership with Fondo de Cultura Economica – Mexico’s leading publishing house – and the Guadalajara International Book Fair, where this year’s award ceremony will take place in November.
In alternating years, the award will honor the work of professionals who translate from Spanish into another language and those who translate from other languages into Spanish, Saizar said.
According to Mexican financial daily El Economista, the first edition of the prize will honor professionals whose target language is Spanish.
This “new and necessary” literary translation prize honors the work of Segovia, who brought universal works such as Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Victor Hugo’s religious epic Dieu (God) to readers of Spanish, Padilla said.
Born in Valencia in 1927, Segovia’s childhood was interrupted by the 1936-1939 Spanish Civil War, which forced his family to flee Spain and resettle in Mexico in 1940.
In addition to translation and text correction, he also dedicated part of his professional life to cinema, radio and cultural promotion in Mexico, where he spent most of his life.
Candidates in the first edition of the Tomas Segovia prize may be nominated by cultural or educational institutions, associations or publishing groups by Oct. 29.
