Disney fantasy has no limits. Ice is no exception. Proof of this is the series of ice shows Disney On Ice. The company’s latest show, Discover the Magic! lands in Barcelona. It will be at the Palau Sant Jordi from February 15 to 18. Four days. Seven sessions.
In this family show aimed at a children’s audience, several plots and adventures from different films are interspersed with musical numbers. Caliber of the show? The most necessary for surprise and emotion.
In figures? About 200 props. More than 800 lighting installations. More than 100 people dedicated to making costumes. Four buses needed to transport staff, cast and crew. More than ten million spectators accumulated so far on tour around the world.
The successful show in Spain has now been going on for 30 years, in which skaters dressed as Disney characters dance and live out iconic stories and songs from the mouse house. This edition does not want to be outdone and has among its cast: the Mexican skater Alicia Sánchez and the Spanish Rubén Barrera.
Alicia is a Mexican professional skater who began the sports art of skating at the age of 13. Rubén is a Spanish professional skater who started skating when he was only seven years old, in love with the show Peter Pan On Ice. What do they have in common? The professionalism and delivery just enough to excite.
Disney On Ice in Rubén’s words “collects 100 years of emotion and fantasy in a show tailor-made for all audiences.” “In just an hour and a half you will see Aladdin, Belle with Lumiere, the Little Mermaid, Moana, the characters from Frozen, Miguel from the movie Coco, accompanied, of course, by Mickey and Minnie Mouse and Tinkerbell,” he adds. .
For the professional skater from Madrid, “being able to be part of this project is a dream come true. When I saw Peter Pan On Ice when I was seven years old, I fell in love and asked my mother for some skates. Since then I haven’t taken them off my feet. “
Declared as an absolute fan of the musical sequences of The Little Mermaid, Frozen or the fun chase sequences of Aladdin, Rubén feels “incapable of choosing a favorite sequence.”
And given all the success collected, highly popular editions, 30 years of dancing on ice, 100 years of excitement and animated adventure, it is worth asking something fundamental: What is the secret to maintaining the magic? Rubén, with a strong smile, is clear: “We skaters transmit the magic of the movies, but at the end of the day the true magic is in each of us.”
