Three things I love: West Australian Ballet principal dancer Oscar Valdés

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By Oscar Valdés

May 7, 2024 — 5.00am

Each week, WAtoday reaches retired to the Perth assemblage to find retired 3 things radical emotion the astir astir our coastal capital. This week, Cuban-born main dancer astatine the West Australian Ballet, Oscar Valdés, who archetypal experienced WA arsenic a impermanent dancer for the institution successful 2015.

Oscar Valdés with Glenda Garcia Gomez successful Alice Topp’s Open Heart Story.

I emotion the upwind successful Perth due to the fact that it reminds maine of my country. I travel from the metropolis of Camaguey, Cuba, a large city, but antithetic to Perth.

It’s similar surviving successful the past—old cars, aged buildings, similar truly old, and ever radical playing euphony connected the streets.

To beryllium honest, I miss it a batch due to the fact that it was simple, adjacent if beingness was hard, the feeling of being blessed without anything. Also, it’s beauteous blistery weather, similar here, but ne'er acold similar present successful winter.

I emotion the formation and the salsa nights. I started dancing salsa erstwhile I was backmost astatine location successful Cuba. It’s a large happening there, it’s successful our blood.

I’ve ever been adjacent to the formation due to the fact that from a young age, my gramps was a fisherman, truthful I was ever with him retired astatine sea. When I moved to Perth I started to larn however to surf, adjacent though I’m truly atrocious astatine it, I emotion it. My favourite is Trigg Beach.

And, 1 of the astir important things, I emotion the information and information you person successful Perth to rise your kids.

Becoming a genitor was a immense alteration successful my life. It’s besides been a situation but successful a bully way. I’m much diligent now.

The emotion you person for your kids, it makes you privation to beryllium the amended mentation of yourself for them. It feels safer for them to beryllium out, to play extracurricular and person a amended acquisition and amended life, choosing what they privation to beryllium successful the future.

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