Marianela Núñez is an extraordinary dancer who seems to possess an inner light which not only makes her glow, but illuminates everyone around her. There is a pure, almost spiritual quality to her apparent happiness on stage, as though there there is nowhere else she would rather be. It is an extremely rare quality: many sparkle, many dazzle, but few communicate heart to heart.
She is also a fine actress, using her dance to communicate a story, and at every moment is thoroughly engaged with her colleagues on stage, not dancing in a bubble like many guesting dancers. Add to this that she is also "a dancers' dancer" in that all the technical wizardry is firmly in place, and this will explain the yells and screams that greeted her curtain calls at La Scala after her first performance in Kenneth MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet last night. Even more extraordinary was the fact that a last minute substitution for an ailing Massimo Murru left her with less than a couple of hours to rehearse all those tricky lifts, but Gabriele Corrado rose to the occasion and was strong and reassuring. If fact, there was nothing that indicated that the two hadn't already danced together, or that Núñez was dancing on the set for the first time. That is the result of experience, confidence and a great deal of courage.
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