Old Havana, their streets, squares and architectural elements will become, from today, stages that will host the edition 28 of the International Festival of Dance in Urban Landscapes Old Havana: City in Motion.
Recently, Eugenio Chávez, general coordinator of the event, announced that the event will be filled with diversity because it will go through various ways of doing dance with the presence of a large number of companies from the Havana city, and from the provinces of Matanzas and Villa Clear.
Regarding the international participation, Chávez highlighted that the Capoeira Malta Group, from Brazil, will attend; the Kinames Collective, from Mexico; the Contemporary Dance Group of the Pontifical University of Ecuador and other companies from Austria, Chile and Spain.
At the opening of the Festival, which will be this Friday at 3:00 pm in the Plaza de Armas, the JJ Traditional Dance Company, the Contemporary Dance School of the Ollin Yoliztli Cultural Center, from Mexico, will perform; Rosalie Wanka, from Austria; and the Asiart-Dance and Danza Teatro Retazos companies, both from the largest of the Antilles.
The groups Yeshuaministeriarte, from Ecuador; the Havana bands Nirvana Flamenco, Danza Voluminosa, the Comparsa of the University Student Federation, ABCD, Cuban Soho, Dante and Orisha-House, among others from eight countries.
Habana Espacios Creativos will host, according to Chávez, the theoretical event Dance: urgent fringe of creation, which on April 27 will bring together choreographers and scholars of that manifestation, in order to discuss critical consciousness in the daily exercise of performing practices.
He pointed out that during Old Havana: City in Motion there will be master classes given by the national Dance Prize winners Johannes García, Isabel Bustos and Rosario Cárdenas, as well as other prestigious teachers such as Susana Pous, Dany Villalonga and Fabiola García.
The general coordinator of the event also highlighted the celebration of the XVIII International Video Dance Festival DVDanza Habana, Movimiento y Ciudad, which will be dedicated to the 10 years of the Dancing Technologies Creation Award.
In addition, the tresera and singer-songwriter Enid Rosales will offer a concert on April 28 at the Theater of the National Museum of Fine Arts.
Created in 1996, Habana Vieja: Ciudad en Movimiento is organized by the Danza Teatro Retazos company, the Office of the Historian of the City of Havana and the Havana Theater Center.
Since 1999, the event has been part of the Dancing Cities International Circuit, made up of countries from Europe and America.
