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• 07 / 24 / 2008

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This year's graduation is dedicated to three important anniversaries in the Cuban art world. The Cuban National Ballet is 60 this year, the Teatro Escambray theatre group celebrates its 40th year and one of the institute's professors, María Eugenia Barrios celebrates 50 years as a professional artist.

The institute's dean, Ana María González, told AIN news agency that 32 percent of this year's class graduated with honors, testimony to the high quality training they received.

"These are students who over the course of their five-year university studies received national and international awards, and also participated in several cultural and social projects in Havana," she added.

The students formed four artistic brigades, created during the Campaña de Frío (Cold Weather) period, when thousands of young Cubans were mobilized to harvest potatoes in the Cuban countryside.

Their mission was to tour the camps, performing for the young agricultural volunteers.

González stressed that the high calibre training of the new graduates is down to the school's excellent professors, most of whom are artists renowned in Cuba and abroad.

According to the dean, the school works towards developing future generations of artists as representatives of Cuba's national culture and identity.

(RHC)