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Alicia Alonso still maintains her graceful way of talking and the elegant movement of her hands and head. Sixty years as director of the Cuban National Ballet Company, to be marked in October, have perhaps made her body less flexible, but her enthusiasm for ballet -the art discipline through which she best expresses herself- remains the same.

The 10th Meeting of Solidarity with Cuba in Spain is discussing Saturday several aspects of the work carried by that movement, comprised of over one hundred groups in this country.

The exhibition is the first joint project between Caixa Galicia and the Cuban museum after the signing of a special agreement on bilateral collaboration last year aimed at promoting exhibitions of Galician painters in Cuba and Cuban expositions in Galicia.

During her stay in Galicia, writer Nancy Morejon will deliver different lectures at the Rosalia de Castro Foundation and in other scenarios of that region about the essential bounds of the Cuban and Caribbean letters with the Hispanic cultural patrimony, as substantiated by her studies on Nicolas Guillen’s work.

The Cuban choreographer and dancer, Alicia Alonso assured in Valencia that in Spain “people are asking at least for a national ballet company” due to the importance of this sort of show. The director of the Cuban National Ballet (BNC in Spanish) made these declarations during the presentation of Giselle in the Teatro Principal, a piece with which the company celebrates its 60th anniversary.

The Spanish artist and designer Javier Mariscal, author of the logo for the Barcelona Olympics in 1992, attended this year’s edition of the International low-budget film festival held in Gibara.

Cuban filmmaker Humberto Solás announced the screening in Bilbao, Spain of a group of films that participated in the 6th Low-Budget Film Festival that concluded this past Sunday in the eastern city of Gibara.

Cuban pianist Chucho Valdes and singer Pablo Milanes will soon tour Spain to present their new album "Mas alla del tiempo" (Beyond Time).

Alicia Alonso became the first important figure of Spanish American culture and performing arts to leave a legacy at the Cervantes Institute’s “Caja de las Letras” in Madrid, Spain.

A meeting of Cubans residing in the jurisdiction of the Cuban consulate in Barcelona, Spain was announced for April 26 at the Ribera Baixa civic center, reports Granma citing Prensa Latina.

Ran a candy store for many years and was the last secretary-treasurer of the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Mr. Veltfort went on to teach engineering in Cuba and organize a drive to donate ambulances to the leftist government of Nicaragua in the 1980s.

Luis Benito Cintado, specialist from that entity, remarked that characters such as "the Caballero de París", who had a severe profile and looked like a rabine, as was described by Eusebio Leal, the Historian of the City of Havana, are values from cultural heritage, capable of a still greater diffusion.

The Cuban method named Yo sí puedo (Yes I can) to teach how to read and write turned out to be interesting for the Campus de Comillas Foundation, stated a source from that Spanish institution.

The Cuban National Ballet (BNC, after its initials in Spanish), lead by the prima ballerina assoluta Alicia Alonso, will travel in April to Egypt as part of a tour that will then move to Spain, where it will end in the last days of May.

The presentation in Spain of the most recent recording work of the Cuban group Vocal Sampling, Akapelleando, has captivated the interest of the public and the critic of that nation.