Spain's Blanca Li: Choreographer, Woman of All Trades, Dreamer
Lifestyle FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 2017 Spain’s Blanca Li: Choreographer, woman of all trades, dreamer In this image released by Fox Searchlight Pictures, Chris Evans, left, and McKenna Grace appear in a scene Spanish dancer/ from, “Gifted.” — AP choreographer Blanca Li (left) and Review Maria Alexandrova, principal dancer of Math film ‘Gifted’ is less Russia’s Bolshoi Ballet, perform a scene from the two than the sum of its parts woman show called “Goddesses & here are several positive factors in the mixed equation Demonesses”. that is “Gifted,” starring Chris Evans and the appealing T10-year-old Mckenna Grace: A brilliant and precocious lanca Li could not be busier: she is a ing them all. “We live in societies in which Outfits that dance yet sweetly empathetic young girl. A devoted and decidedly dancer, film director and actress, and women are still not respected the way Li’s daily concerns show up in her work, hunky father figure. And then there’s math itself, presented Bdoes choreography for stars like they should be. Women are still very limit- in her creations. In her upcoming show not as a refuge for social misfits, but as an exciting and ele- Beyonce and Daft Punk, and lots, lots more. ed professionally and artistically,” Li com- “Solstice” at the Chaillot National Theater gant pursuit. Unfortunately, a movie about mathematical for- There’s opera, ad campaigns for Prada and plained. “In France or Spain, parity does in Paris, rehearsal for which begins in three mulas relies way too much on moviemaking formula, and the Christian Louboutin, video, art installations.
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