With the presentation of the Copelia ballet at the National Theater, students of the Magda Corbett ballet school will honor their professor on occasion of her 50 years of teaching in the Dominican Republic. Special guest performers for the ballet are award-winning Armando González and Michelle Jiménez, first dancers of the Ballet Clasico Nacional. Also performing are Michelle Paniagua, a Magda Corbett student who has gone on to a career as a dancer abroad; Rebeca Barger, a soloist of the National Ballet of Cuba, and dancers from Colombia. The ballet will be staged this weekend, 8-10 May at the National Theater.
