Parallel Worlds: Arts and Sciences

Even if you aren´t a follower of her ideas, the same ideas that now the Spanish’s PM (Mariano Rajoy), is doing with his country (no public health service, no public education…). We need to admit that this woman has been one of the most influential people in the 20th century in the world as well as one of the most influential people of the whole history. And when the people loose such an important person (even if she didn´t do the things rights in my opinion), we need to recognise her as a fundamental person of the Human History. The funeral will happen next Wednesday at St Paul´s Cathedral in London with more than 2000 guests, including most of the politicians of the whole world like David Cameron or her Majesty, the Queen Elizabeth II: “ Margaret Thatcher , the most dominant British prime minister since Winston Churchill in 1940 and a global champion of the late 20th-century free market economic revival, has died. Her spokesman, Lord Bell, said on Monday: "It is with g...

Leanne Benjamin, one of the greeatest ballerinas of our generation, has decided to retire after and astonishing career with The Royal Ballet, becoming one of her most relevant principal dancers: “After an outstanding 21 years dacing with The Royal Ballet, Principal Dancer Leanne Benjamin has announced her intention to retire in July 2013, at the end of the current season.  Her last performance will be in Tokyo on 10 July in A Gala Evening with The Royal Ballet at the Bunka Kaikan, Tokyo. as part of The Royal Ballet’s summer tour. Leanne’s final performance at The Royal Opera House will be as Mary Vetsera in the season finale of Mayerling on 15 June. Leanne Benjamin came from Australia to join The Royal Ballet Upper School at the age of sixteen. In 1980 she won the Adeline Genee Gold Medal and in 1981 the Prix de Lausanne . At her graduation performance she danced the role of Giselle at The Royal Opera House partnered by Jonathan Cope as Albrecht. Leanne began w...