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Cuban National Ballet Company back in Cuba

The Cuban National Ballet Company is back in Cuba after a successful South American tour. The ballet company danced in Chile and while there, President Michelle Bachelet received company director and Prima Ballerina Assoluta Alicia Alonso at La Moneda Palace, the headquarters of national government. Read More

Cuban dancer awarded Doctorate

Cuban dancer, Carlos Acosta, was awarded Doctor Honoris Cause from the Metropolitan University of London by Dean John Carter. Acosta expressed that this experience would inspire him to greater efforts in his work and to be better in his professional life. Read More

A peculiar sound in Los Tambores de Bejucal

Los Tambores de Bejucal (Bejucal Drums) has just obtained the National Community Culture Award, rounding off a great number of recognitions won on and off the island. That outstanding folkloric group, emerged 44 years ago -on December 6, 1962-, from the fusion of the accompanying congas of Las Charangas de Bejucal Read More

Chile University honors Alicia Alonso

Chile s University of Arts has bestowed upon Cuban Prima ballerina assoluta Alicia Alonso the title of Honorary Professor and the Chancellor s Medal. Those decorations were respectively given on Thursday by Alvaro Cruz, dean of the Faculty of Arts, and Victor Perez, rector of that higher education center. Read More

"Baila en Cuba" meeting of dancers to be held in Cuba from November 26 to December 1st

"Baila en Cuba", meeting of dancers to be held in our country from November 26 until December 1st, welcomes all persons of the world interested in learning how to dance the Cuban music with the best danceable orchestras of the country. Read More

The 20th International Ballet Festival comes to an end

A gala cultural ceremony closed the 20th International Ballet Festival with the performances of prestigious Cuban and foreign dancers as Jose Manuel Carreño, Julio Bocca and Patrick de Bana. Read More

Julio Bocca and his last Sigfrido

Bocca travelled to Cuba invited to take part in the 20th Ballet Festival of Havana, where hes been a distinguished guest for the past two decades, after winning a gold medal in Moscow he came to the island and first dance the Swan Lake. Read More

Maximiliano Guerra in Cuba

Aged only 10, Maximiliano Guerra noticed people dancing while seeing her sister, a dance teacher, at work. Then the boy decided to try it and soon his attraction and curiosity turned into passion. Read More

A spirit- soaked rumba party

That Yoruba Andabo should have headlined was no fault of rapper Papo Record. A talented MC with a fine line in barrio angst, his Spanish language invective made little impact on a crowd still reeling from a spirit-soaked rumba party. Read More

Viengsay Valdés and Carlos Acosta: Diana and Acteon

Viengsay Valdés and Carlos Acosta dance the Pas de deux of ballet Diana and Acteón in García Lorca hall of the Gran Teatro de la Habana. Read More

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