sábado, 31 de octubre de 2009

Seventh Iberian-American Festival Holguín 2009

By Amauris Betancourt.

Some pictures of the development and closing day of the 7th Festival of the Iberian-Amaerican Culture in the city of Holguín, 750 Km. east from Havanna City.

Iberian-American House in San José park.
Inaguration street parade.
Santiago de Cuba's Steel Band concert.
Iberian-American Thought Congress.
Cuban trouvador Eduardo Sosa at the Holguín Touva House.
Guajira Party.
Iberian-American audiovisual playings.
Closing day at Cayo Bariay Key.

lunes, 26 de octubre de 2009

Iberian-American Festival: Soul Maps Have no Borders

By Amauris Betancourt.

The 17th Iberian-American Festival started off in Holguín with an inauguration gala where the interesting melting pot binding our Iberian peoples' culture stuck out.

Music and dance made it into a gala honoring Eduardo Galeano, Mercedes Sosa, Mario Benedetti and Cubans Cintio Vitier and José Martí.

Cuban guajira dancers and singers
Trouba, Spanish and Mexican dance, and contemporary dance
Tatiana Zúniga, House of Iberia-American president welcomed participants
Flag parade

martes, 6 de octubre de 2009

Co-danza, Seventeen Years Dancing

By Amauris Betancourt / ambego@gmail.com
Co-danza, a Holguín contemporary dance company broadly recognized all over Cuba, turned 17 years old last September 25, 1992. But between Octuber 14 and 20 the company will celebrated it the way they know better: dancing. Pasajera la lluvia (1999 Villanueva Critic National Award), among other works, will be brought back to stage while Everything about me, its latest production, a coreography by Tangin Fong, dealing with the topic of sharing and communicating among people, will be premiered. Maricel Godoy has directed Codanza since its beginnings, and led it to international succes: Spain, Mexico, Venezuela and the United States.

Yényere Gumá, premiered in 2007 During the opening of the Iberian-American Party
In the Holguín 2009 Carnivals