The important Fed dance competition ended in chaos. As EL DIA reported, several people from La Plata were affected by the oppressive temperature and lack of ventilation at the event at the Gran Rivadavia Theater in Flores.
Now the one who broke the silence is the mother of two competitors who are daughters of former Estudiantes player Cristian Sánchez Prette, who was part of the 2009 Copa Libertadores champion team. Romina Vanesa Giménez said that “something like this has never happened to us before,” while blaming the setting of the event and the production of the Fed tournament for putting the companies’ minors “in danger.”
Jazmín, 19, and Bianca, 13, have been dancers for more than 10 years and have had no problems with the “megafinal” in recent years. The last time I was at the Metropolitan Theater was also and everything went smoothly.
The former Pincha footballer’s wife, speaking to VC5N, explained that “there was no security personnel” and that the theater authorities “the only thing they did was to say that the performance was suspended and could not continue.” At this point, Giménez said they had gone through 25 of 56 choreographies, one person in the audience fainted, a few other people grabbed two seats and a dancer passed out backstage.
He also recalled that due to a delay in the accreditation of the participants, the competition started an hour later, and at the last minute they informed the participants that the numbered tickets they had purchased had no longer been valid and they had to occupy the places in the order of arrival.
The woman assured that “children of three, four, five, six, seven years old are competing, they are small and no event can be held in these conditions,” adding that there were parents who carried their daughters in their arms to the SAME ambulances. “It’s not just the fact that they canceled the event, but they’re putting our children in danger,” he said.
While the 42-year-old waited for the moment when her daughters would shine on stage, Bianca and Jazmín lived in the dressing rooms, or rather, in the hallways of the dressing rooms. In this regard, he said: “There was no type of ventilation, ventilation or anything like that. They had to put up a tent so that a colleague could change in the corridors. The changing rooms were not activated, the corridors were very narrow and the bathrooms were mixed and had no water.”
After the event was suspended, leaving the theater was another odyssey. Not only because there was a two-block-long line outside waiting to get in, but also because of the desperation of dancers and families wanting to escape the oppressive heat. “As we were going down, one of our classmates fell and sprained her ankle, and no one wants to take responsibility,” lamented Jazmín, who was unable to perform her choreography. “The teachers and the director put on their shirts and took care of the girls, but they do what the production dictates,” said one of Sánchez Prette’s daughters.
About The Author
