Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Ballet Hispanico founder Tina Ramirez takes The Proust Questionnaire

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Tina Ramirez

Tina Ramirez, Artistic Director of Ballet Hispanico
takes The Proust Questionnaire (Celebrity Series Version)



What is your idea of perfect happiness? 
Solitude.  Also, no aches and pains in my body.



What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? 
Frustration.  When I am not getting work done.



What is your most marked characteristic?
I’m always on to the next thing.



What is the quality you most like in a man?
Sincerity



What is the quality you most like in a woman?
Truthfulness



What do you most value in your friends?
Loyalty



What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
My quick temper



What is your favorite occupation?
Dancing



What is your favorite journey? 
On the ocean



Who is your favorite hero/heroine of fiction?
Anna Karenina



What books are currently on your bedside table? 
Biography of Elia Kazan



Who are your favorite composers?
Bach, or whoever’s music my company is dancing to at that moment.



Who is your favorite performing artist? 
Gwen Verdon



What is it that you most dislike?
Bad taste



Which talent would you most like to have?
Painting



How would you like to die?
In bed



What is your motto?
Live and Let Live

Ballet Hispanico and the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra come to Boston's Citi Shubert Theatre this Friday and Saturday May 18 & 19 for two performances of Palladium Nights.



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