In “La bailarina afropuertorriqueña Helga Paris-Morales al Ballet Black Firm de Londres,” the Black Artwork in Puerto Rico weblog introduced this week that Puerto Rican dancer Helga Paris-Morales has been chosen by London’s Ballet Black dance firm as junior artist for the 2022-2023 season.
London’s Ballet Black Firm has chosen younger Afro-Puerto Rican dancer Helga Paris-Morales as its latest member within the junior artist class for the 2022-2023 season.
Helga Yarí Paris-Morales, who was born in San Juan Puerto Rico in 2000, grew up along with her native music and dance, bomba and plena. When she was seven, Helga and her household moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, the place she started coaching on the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. From 2008 to 2016 she studied faucet, musical theater, and classical ballet. Helga participated in intensive summer season applications and acquired benefit scholarships on the American Ballet Theatre, the Joffrey Ballet, the Kansas Metropolis Ballet, and the Cincinnati Ballet.
In 2016, Helga was chosen by Julie Kent, former Principal Dancer and Inventive Director of The Washington Ballet, to attend The Washington Faculty of Ballet’s pre-professional coaching program and apprentice program. She was promoted in 2018 to TWB’s Studio Firm and has held varied roles inside the firm’s repertoire together with Allegro Brillante, by George Balanchine; Sleeping Magnificence, by Julie Kent; and works by Johnathan Heginbotham.
Helga was commissioned in 2020 to choreograph a ballet and direct a movie about The Washington Ballet for its new works, Season of Pleasure. Since then, she has created a number of works for the corporate and the varsity. Helga joins Cassa Pancho’s Ballet Black for its 2022/23 season as a Junior Artist.
[Photo above by Jorge Colón.]
Translated by Ivette Romero. For authentic article, see https://puertoricoblackart.blogspot.com/2022/08/la-bailarina-afropuertorriquena-helga.html
See extra on Ballet Black at https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/25/arts/dance/ballet-black-london.html