EMAIL FROM … SANTIAGO DE CHILE (FRIEDEMANN VOGEL & HYO-JUNG KANG)

Hyo-Jung Kang and Friedemann Vogel with Marcia Haydée, photo: privat

Dear friends and audience in Stuttgart,

we’re sending you greetings from Santiago de Chile, where we will be dancing tonight with Marcia Haydée’s company, the Ballet de Santiago, in her version of The Sleeping Beauty. It will be a very exclusive Gala performance for the newspaper El Mercurio, with only invited guests watching – and we’re very glad to be a part of it!

Besides me, Hyo has also four passionate princes from Marcia’s company for her Rose Adagio :) During the rehearsals we had a lot of fun with Egon Madsen, who is also here as a guest ballet master, and of course also with Marcia! It is always wonderful to be working with her and everybody in her company is very friendly and welcoming!

Love from Santiago,

Friedemann & Hyo

Hyo-Jung Kang und Friedemann Vogel mit Marcia HaydéeHyo-Jung Kang and Friedemann Vogel with Marcia Haydée and Egon Madsen, photo: private

 

EMAIL FROM … SANTIAGO DE CHILE (ANNA OSADCENKO)

Anna Osadcenko as Nikiya in “La Bayadera”, photo: Ballet de Santiago

Hello, everyone,

I am sending you my very best regards from Chile! Marcia Haydée invited me to work and perform “La Bayadera” with her company, the Ballet de Santiago, and I am so happy I could go! Everyone here is really nice, people are very warmhearted and fun to work with – so I am enjoying every moment and every day. I find it very interesting to experience a new company as a guest, especially because nobody here gives me the feeling of being a stranger.

I have always loved the ballet “La Bayadere” and dreamed of dancing the leading role of Nikiya as long as I can think, so I cannot say how thankful I am to Marcia for inviting me and making this dream come true! My partner is Luis Ortigoza, a Principal Dancer in the Ballet de Santiago, who did the choreography for this “La Bayadere” based on the one by Marius Petipa. I am lucky – he is a beautiful dancer, and a wonderful person.
Training and rehearsals will keep me quite busy, but anyway I hope to find a little time to stroll around Santiago: It is a beautiful place, the city with its old buildings, the nice parks and markets is sure worth taking a walk, and we’ve had nothing but sunny weather.
We will perform “La Bayadere” from April 18th to 21st in the Teatro Municipal de Santiago, so keep your fingers crossed, dear friends at home!

Kisses from Chile,
Anna