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...“Sánchez is giving in to the blackmail of the pro-independence movement,” said Alberto Núñez Feijóo, leader of the conservative People’s party....
...Opposition leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo is this week proving he does not have the parliamentary votes to become premier....
...Additional reporting by Laura Dubois in Brussels...
...There, she was one of a group of distinctive ballerinas (Alina Cojocaru, Marianela Nuñez and Leanne Benjamin among them) who made every show in the late 2000s a thrilling contrast to the next....
...Laura Morera, 44, has finally made her debut as Natalia Petrovna....
...Marianela Nuñez was a scene-stealing Mitzi Kaspar, her box-fresh pointe shoes highlighting her impeccable footwork....
...“The people in the hotel will have to stay there without leaving their rooms until test results are known,” said Domingo Núñez, a health official for the islands....
...Marianela Nuñez is a sunny, buoyant Kitri with soaring jetés, snappy échappés and nerveless balances....
...Sarah Lamb made total sense of the loving, pimping ex-mistress Countess Larisch (ditto Laura Morera dancing on Wednesday)....
...The three central duets (gorgeous work from both casts: Marianela Nuñez, Laura Morera and Fumi Kaneko all outstanding) are packed with beautiful, innovative lifts and dramatised with mysterious but richly...
...Laura Morera (Wednesday’s wife) and Itziar Mendizabal (Thursday’s) nailed every laugh, as did the un-synced Sylphides of the “Mistake” waltz....
...Marianela Nuñez was beguilingly its star, Thiago Soares her impeccable cavalier. Glorious shapes of dance blossomed. The jewels blazed in Balanchine’s settings....
...Laura Morera showed off her deliciously dirty feet in the bedroom scene from Manon and was better still in the final death-wish duet from Mayerling....
...Christina Arestis and Marianela Núñez both caught the second section’s otherworldly mood — like a floorshow for The Shape of Things to Come....
...It brings the revival of Liam Scarlett’s Viscera, an extra-sec realisation of Lowell Liebermann’s piano concerto, admirably danced under the grand leadership of Laura Morera....
...Laura Morera makes toe shoes an aphrodisiac in her teasing solos as Lescaut’s mistress....
...But there are splendid things afoot: a Flamenco gala from Monday to Wednesday; Rafaela Carrasco’s troupe (pictured) on Friday and Saturday; the superb guitarist Gerardo Nuñez on Sunday, with dance-divinity...
...Ashton’s Rhapsody got the tour off to a strong start, with blazing performances from Steven McRae, fiendishly brilliant in the role created for Baryshnikov, and Laura Morera, conjuring miracles of speed...
...Morera, Zenaida Yanowsky and Marianela Núñez in their partner’s ever-alert care....
...In the blink of an eye, just as she is completing her perilous plunge, Nuñez lets out a small cry and curls up on the floor....
...originally Balanchine’s French ballerina, Violette Verdy, whom we saw as music personified in elegant dance – and how sadly her spirit and her grace were missing at Tuesday night’s revival, which, save for Laura...
...As with Viscera, performances are splendid: the dancing of Laura Morera, Marianela Núñez, Ryoichi Hirano, Sarah Lamb, Melissa Hamilton, Edward Watson, Steven McRae and their colleagues throughout the evening...
...Morera gloriously leading a waltz, and then Marianela Núñez as the Sugar Plum....
...Much praise, too, for Laura Morera as Irina, almost – almost – stealing the ballet from her, and for Mara Galeazzi, all compassionate understanding as Olga....
...I think Marianela Nuñez their worthy successor. She is touchingly sincere, with nothing overstressed, and fetchingly responsive to the dance’s demands, which she shows with a lovely generosity....
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