Parallel Worlds: Arts and Sciences

La destacada poetisa Ida Vitale (Montevideo, 1923) se acaba de alzar con el Premio Cervantes 2018, el galardón más importante de la literatura en español, nuestro Nobel , en una ceremonia que tuvo lugar el pasado martes 23 de abril junto al rey Felipe VI y diversas autoridades de la cultura española. Anteriormente, lo han recibido numerosos escritores de la talla de Miguel Delibes, Jorge Luis Borges, Mario Vargas Llosa o Camilo José Cela, todos ellos figuras esenciales de la literatura española. La obra de Vitale, principalmente poética, también abarca otros campos literarios como la prosa, la crítica y el ensayo, dando lugar a más de 30 obras literarias publicadas desde su ópera prima La Luz de Montevideo (1949), hasta la más reciente Poesía reunida (2017). Esta larga y fructífera trayectoria se inició en su Uruguay natal al formar parte del conocido movimiento artístico “Generación del 45”. Más adelante, su carrera la catapultaría hasta México y finalmente a...

Perhaps, many of you may not know who he is Cyril W. Beaumont OBE (1891-1976), the British ballet historian, critic, theorist, bookseller and publisher. However, without him we would not know much of the Dance of the end of XIX Century and beginning of the XX Century. Therefore, his name will always be associated with the greatest dance theorist of all time such as Jean-Georges Noverre, Carlo Blasis as well as his contemporaries Ivor Guest and Clement Crisp, for his incalculable contribution to the art of Terpsicore. Nevertheless, without a doubt, he has been the most prolific of them being the author of more than 40 forty books of which many of them, have been published by the Beaumont Press located in his small book shop in Charing Cross Road in central London for more than half a century. Moreover, he has written numberless scholar and popular articles, as well as being an influential ballet critic of The Sunday Times from almost decade. His most notable work h...