People are talking about the upcoming 32nd Havana Film Festival at bus stops, in lines at markets and in cinemas box offices. The word is now circulating in the street: there’s only a little time left before the beginning of the Dec. 2-12 event.
Read MoreThe 32nd Havana Film Festival is only two weeks away from opening. Cuba’s foremost cinema happening includes hundreds of full length and short films from Latin America and around the world and takes place from Dec. 2-12. (10 photos)
Read MoreHis lyrics have assured him a place in the hearts of all Cubans, just as his fusion work has won him high marks among specialized critics. His songs incorporate elements of Latin American music —basically Brazilian and Caribbean.
Read MoreFamed Cuban dancer Carlos Acosta returns to his country starting Saturday Nov. 20 for an eight day dance tour to several Cuban cities, reported IPS on Monday. Acosta, a principal guest artist of the Royal Ballet of London since 2003, said that he wants to be seen by his compatriots as “a multifaceted dancer who brings something fresh, perhaps innovative as well as inspiring and touching human fibers.”
Read MoreIn front of the Hotel Inglaterra, to one side of the Garcia Lorca Grand Theater of Havana, in the heart of the municipality of Centro Havana, every Friday afternoon at four o’clock a singular activity begins: oboes, flutes, saxes, basses and even drummers gather around the baton that will direct this orchestra. (21 photos)
Read MoreLeo Brower, Arturo Sandoval, Chucho Valdes and Alex Cuba were the four Cubans who won Latin Grammy awards on Thursday night in Las Vegas. Brower and Valdes live in Cuba, Sandoval in the United States and Alex Cuba in Canada.
Read MoreThe artists to present their works in the show titled “Cuban Counterpoint: A gaze at Cuba from other shores,” are Ramon Menocal, Romelio Rivera, Lazaro Batista and Alexis Landa, who all reside in Washington D.C.
Read MoreXiomara Reyes visited the Centro Pro-danza de Cuba to meet with her former teacher and director of the institution, Laura Alonso. Reyes, a principal dancer for the American Ballet Theatre, is in Cuba after an 18 absence.
Read MoreThe paintings and sculptures displayed in the hall are the most recent fruits of the creation of this prestigious ceramist, be they of a siren with a green tail or a gentleman with a tie and glasses questioning his assistants. (19 photos)
Read MoreThe American Ballet Theatre will perform tonight and Thursday in the Cuban capital’s Karl Marx Theatre after five decades of being absent from the island’s stages, the local press reported. The U.S. company thus joins in the tribute being paid for National Ballet of Cuba director Alicia Alonso’s 90th birthday.
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