{"id":16015,"date":"2026-04-30T13:51:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T17:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/?p=16015"},"modified":"2026-04-30T13:55:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T17:55:21","slug":"elfriede-mahler-honorary-dance-awards-presented-in-guantanamo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/elfriede-mahler-honorary-dance-awards-presented-in-guantanamo\/","title":{"rendered":"Elfriede Mahler Honorary Dance Awards Presented in Guant\u00e1namo"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Guantanamo.- For their outstanding work as dancers, teachers of new generations, and continuers of the legacy of the emblematic Ballet Flokl\u00f3rico Babul Company, Jorge Rancol C\u00e9spedes and Juan Carlos Correoso Iznaga were awarded the Elfriede Mahler Honorary Provincial Dance Award, granted by the Guant\u00e1namo Performing Arts Council.<\/p>\n

The award ceremony took place at the Bajo La Ceiba gathering in Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ed Park, where both members of the Babul Folkloric Ballet received this provincial honor in recognition of their dedication to the professional dance movement in Guant\u00e1namo and their work as internationalists in the Bolivarian nation of Venezuela.<\/p>\n

The director of the Culture sector in the province, Yoelvys Laba\u00f1ino L\u00f3pez, accompanied by L\u00eddice Fraga \u00cdrsula, Head of the Ideological Department of the Provincial Party Committee, and Virgen Speck Rodr\u00edguez, President of the Council of Performing Arts, presented the award during the celebration of International Dance Day in Guant\u00e1namo on April 29.<\/p>\n

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Also within this context, the Guant\u00e1namo dance masters Ernesto Llewel\u00edn de La Hera and Ladislao Navarro Tomas\u00e9n were honored for their recent awards of the L\u00e1zaro Pe\u00f1a Order, granted by the Central Organization of Cuban Workers (CTC). Navarro Tomas\u00e9n was also recognized with the 2026 Lorna Burdsall Award, conferred by the Association of Performing Artists of the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC).<\/p>\n

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Similarly, as part of the event, the culmination of the 13th Raquel Bal\u00f3n In Memoriam Dance Season at the Rub\u00e9n L\u00f3pez Sabariego House of Culture, the Franco-Haitian group “Renacer Cossi\u00e1,” which carries on Franco-Haitian traditions, was recognized for its 25th anniversary. The honor was received by art instructor Orbis Morgan, leader of this project.<\/p>\n

The casts of the territory’s dance companies and projects, together with the Amateur Artists Movement of this specialty, starred with their choreographic representations of contemporary, modern and folkloric syles, in Bajo La Ceiba gatheirng, dedicated especially to International Dance Day from the central Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ed park in the city of Guant\u00e1namo.<\/p>\n

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Guantanamo.- For their outstanding work as dancers, teachers of new generations, and continuers of the legacy of the emblematic Ballet Flokl\u00f3rico Babul Company, Jorge Rancol C\u00e9spedes and Juan Carlos Correoso Iznaga were awarded the Elfriede Mahler Honorary Provincial Dance Award, granted by the Guant\u00e1namo Performing Arts Council. The award ceremony took place at the Bajo […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-guantanamo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16015"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16019,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16015\/revisions\/16019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}