23 de December de 2024

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Charting the rise to stardom of the youngest principal ballerina in the history of the American Ballet Theatre, the biographical documentary Paloma Herrera, Here And Now, follows the story of the world renowned Argentinean born dancer.

From her first ballet studies in Buenos Aires at the age of seven, through to the Minsk Ballet School in Russia and the English National Ballet in London, Herrera is now principal ballerina at the American Ballet Theatre, starring in acclaimed productions such as Swan Lake, Romeo and Juliet and Don Quixote.

With artistic direction from the prestigious Argentinean photographer Jorge Fama, Paloma Herrera, Here and Now offers a personal insight into her rehearsals in New York and Buenos Aires, featuring testimony from her teachers and showing her dancing, as only she knows how, at the prestigious Argentinean opera house, the Teatro Colón.