The Guantanamo Province hosts from May 26 to 28 the Young Choreographers Festival, sponsored by the Hermanos Saíz Association (AHS ), in conjunction with the Provincial Directorate of Culture and the Council of Performing Arts.
The event will honor the maestro Ladislao Navarro Tomasén, for his 45 years of career, who is also the founder of the company Danza Fragmentada, which celebrates its three decades of founding. The theoretical space will deal with the impact of migration and exodus of dancers and choreographers on the creative works of the companies and artists.
The Young Choreographers Festival invited important figures and projects from the country, including dancers from the Rosario Cárdenas company, the National Folk Ensemble, Danza Espiral, students from the Higher Institute of Art (ISA) and the Alfredo Velázquez Professional Dance School , in addition to the local groups like Danza Fragmentada, Danza Libre, Ballet Folklorico Babul, the K’merino Project and Bad Steps.
The program also includes the lecture The body today between exhaustion and the end of the representation, by the teacher Noel Bonilla Chongo; the contemporary dance workshops, Cuban dances of Yoruba and Caribbean rhythms, among other styles, taught by important figures as Leivan García, general director of the National Folkloric, Liliam Padrón, director of Danza Espiral and the Ladislao Navarro.
Every night at 8:30 at the Teatro Guaso will host the performance of all companies, and then at 10:00 p.m. Music concerts at the Casa del Joven Creador, where Mi Aldea space presents the recital the groups and young artists such as the Sonus Ensemble, the troubadour Maikel Moral, the bolero singer Paula Villalón and even Changüí Guantánamo
