Cuban Nacional Ballet Performs in Holguín

By Amauris Betancourt.

The Cuban National Ballet (BNC) presented this Sunday in the sold-out Eddy Suñol theater a program to be repeated today at 9:00 p.m.

 

Five pieces were interpreted by young members of the BNC who pleased the audience with the choreographies Muñecos by Alberto Méndez, Majísimo by Jorge García, Dionaea by Gustavo Herrera and Dialogo a 4 by Alicia Alonso.

 

The BNC’s last performance in Holguín took place in the 80s. This time the program is dedicated  to the Ibero-American House and to the IV Encounter of  International Solidarity Art Brigades taking place now.

Holguín Turned into Eastern Rock Capital with Metal HG

Rock bands arrived in Holguín from Ciego de Ávila, Havana City, Cienfuegos to join to local ones in the 13th Metal HG Rock Festival sponsored by the Hermanos Saíz Association (AHS) and the Cuban Rock Agency.

Debates and workshops on the influence of rock music within the new generations of artists, as well the link between rock and literature and the way it is focus in mass media, took place.

Asgard, from Cienfuegos made its debut in Holguín; Agonizer, made the dancing temperature go up over the main stage at the Young Artists’ House, headquarters to the event and to the AHS, just like Condenados, Kallejeros, Treament Choice, Suffering Tool and other bands to add up 17 in total.

The Fest has its continuity in The May Pilgrimage with the Rock-merías, sort of rock-(pilgr)image, a collateral event for the sake of rock artists and followers of that music.

Children Carnival Holguín 2011 Kicks Off

Sight of the Los Libertadores avenue from up a carnival carriage.

Carriages, dancing carnival groups and walking choreography groups as well as clowns  navigate all the way through the Libertadores Avenue from Holguín city, amid a sea of laughs, bright eyes, big and small hands –up and down, interwoven– and infantile fearful faces to the sight of macabre and daredevils disguises.

So starts the Holguín 2011 Carnival always preceded by the little carnival, the younger version of the Popular Parties celebrated from one extreme to the other one of the Cuban Island.

After the parade there will be a concert by the infantile salsa group The Sagüeritos and other artistic presentations in the area of the parking-lot of the Calixto García baseball park while refreshments and sweets are being sold.

 About happiness, fears, dancing and family walkings.