The Frost Interview - Carlos Acosta: From pauper to prince
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ธ.ค. 2012
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Sir David Frost travels to Havana, Cuba, to meet the world's most celebrated male ballet dancer in his homeland.
Carlos Acosta's family was desperately poor. Pedro, his father, had fallen in love with ballet when as a young man, he had sneaked into a cinema that was reserved for whites to watch grainy pictures of ballet dancers. When Pedro heard that Cuba's ballet schools offered free food, he sent his son Carlos off to ballet school.
"I wanted to become a footballer ... but obviously my father had different plans," Acosta tells Sir David.
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This is the best interview with the adorable Acosta! Thank`s for this!
I'm here becoz I was watching Kate bush vid and saw manon swamp pdd being danced and it broke my heart then discovered everything about manon and discovered Carlos my world is opening door by door xxx
Infelizmente no entiendo El.Ingles, mas me imajino que deve ser una historia de jovem Cubano.
what a legendary artist!
So very inspiring.
such brilliance.....magnifico!
This opening reminds of the power and emotion Nijinsky had. The images of his poses would really move me. And Carlos Acosta has this...Ps You can’t find Carlos Acosta’s height anywhere. So am gauging his height against David Frost who’s around 5 ft 11-12 (1.80 m? )so he’s about 6ft 2 (1.89-90 cm ). My point is when he jumps his feet are far from the stage. And spin his body several times aswell as entrechat entrechat...
Acosta was a guest artist at ABT some years back; I attended one performance, did not know of his background, and did not enjoy his performance.
Since then I have watched a lot of his dancing and interviews through you tube and now really enjoy his dancing . Acosta seems now retired from active dancing, but he is an inspirational dancer and polished partner.
He seems such a lovely genuine guy . I look forward to reading the latest video out on his life . I thought it was the Russian influence in Cuba that accounted for well trained teachers there .
El mejor de los mejores, el tigre de los tigres, mi ídolo y amigo, Carlos Acosta
Relájate querido.
Siempre
LOVELY!
Que ser más impresionante!
La escuela de artes no es solo la escuela de ballet. Es una escuela ara todas las artes, lo sé porque yo estudié ahí Artes Plásticas y es una escuela super rigurosa donde no entra cualquiera.
Gertrudis Rivalta solo por palancas y los hijos de los pinchos
Qué importante es tener un buen papá! El de Carlos Acosta habrá sido pobre e inculto pero era inteligente porque vió que en el ballet habia un futuro para el hijo. Edit: Parece que el papá era un hombre violento, eso ya no me parece tan bueno. Vaya a saber qué infancia tuvo él a su vez.
I will love to meet him.
Mr. Frost great interview & I Thank you.
I was borne in Cuba and my family left when I was a small child to the USA. Acosta is an incredible & gifted artist and I appreciate the love he has for his family and country, he talks about the dream of Castro & Che both murderers not only to the Cuban people but to other countries as well, by rebuilding (the dancing ground) but there is one thing & it's the following Cuba has been under a communist regime for 60 years and nothing just nothing will change or improve under that tyranny, no matter what you do or say will do NOTHING. Freedom for Cuba and the people is what they need... 🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺. ❤😥🙏
Your comment shows the brainwash you got in the USA educational system. You should better use your time and energy to stop the inhuman blockade of the USA against Cuba, than posting anti-communist propaganda! Your action against the blockade would help the people in Cuba!
you have to start somewhere now break dancing is one
Great docu, but please Frosty, time to retire!! x
Well, now he’s gone to the great retirement home in the sky but it was a good interview because Carlos himself is such an outstanding person .
What he is saying here is at odds with what he said in his biography, "No Way Home," where he says that the prima balerina absoluta of Cuba, Alicia Alonso, is a racist and that he suffered racism in Cuba. Here he says that he never suffered racism, but then again, he has to be careful what he says less the regime punishes him.
Totally agreed
I agree
I read his book and he did not write that Alonso was a racist.
HAY QUE LUCHAR CONTRA LOS NGLESES, NO RENDIRSE SU CULTURA ES VIOLENTA, NO QUIERO QUE SE IMPONGA
I thought black is color and not a human being.
For heaven's sake ...no child has been a "pauper" in communist Cuba. With rice and beans, and whatever he ate, he was surely better nourished than many poor children in America. And when he "dropped" school he was taken to boarding school. He was not a "pauper" He was a talent rightly targeted by Cuban well trained teachers.