Filmmaker Mary Jane Doherty writes the following, “It’s 2007. I am sitting in Mayara’s tiny bedroom staring up at her laundry draped over the termite-riddled beams, wondering how on earth she and her mom manages…
Fast forward to 2015. Yes, this is Mayara. The Executive Director from the Pennsylvania Ballet sent this photo to me. Mayara now dances with them as Soloist. She was also
PROFILED in Dance Magazine recently.”
Mayara defected to the United States during filming Secundaria! Mary Jane’s companion film Premaria has just “begun its outward journey.”
“Secundaria quietly follows one high school class on its journey through Cuba’s world famous National Ballet School. Our teenage dancers love to dance but many of them must dance as their sole way out of poverty and the constraints – visible, and not so visible – that is life in Cuba.
At least, that’s how the movie begins. In their third year, shy and inscrutable Mayara, the class star, takes charge of her destiny by committing an unprecedented act of willfulness.
Cinematic storytelling without a script, staging, or interviews, our gentle stream of a story turns out to have a waterfall hidden around that last bend…”
Mary Jane on location in Cuba
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Filmmaker Mary Jane Doherty writes the following, “It’s 2007. I am sitting in Mayara’s tiny bedroom staring up at her laundry draped over the termite-riddled beams, wondering how on earth she and her mom manages…
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What a gorgeous dancer and an amazing story. Stunning that only the Pope appears interested in the moment, in the God-given talent displayed before the three men. But then, a photo shows only the instant a picture is taken.
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See the movie, it is tremendous and is especially beautiful knowing how far Mayara has traveled!
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