Culture

Videodance in Cuba: A World to Explore

Many believe it is a kind of experimental cinema that only a select audience could understand. Despite Cuba’s Videodance Festival, the majority of Cubans know nothing about this genre of dance music. Is it a filmed choreography? A film in which the characters tell the story while dancing, as in a musical?

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Cuban Folk Singer Ruben Lester on Departing and Arriving

Though not one of the most promoted artists, Ruben Lester (Santiago de Cuba, 1977) has broken into Cuba’s folk music world with an interesting repertoire. His lyrics combine feelings and objective observations. They recreate humanity’s relationship with its surroundings – with the countryside, the land and animals.

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Cuba to Host Malakhov Dance Contest

Paul Seaquist, manager of the renowned dancer Vladimir Malakhov, shares with us the details of the first North Atlantic Dance Competition and Vladimir Malakhov Grand Prix, a great dance event to be held this year in Cuba.

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Cuba Bids a Last Farewell to Juan Formell

Personalities of culture as well as political figures came on Friday to pay tribute and say a final farewell to Juan Formell a great of Cuban music. Formell and his band Los Van Van have been popular for decades in Cuba and far beyond its borders. (16 photos)

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Cuba Mourns Van Van’s Juan Formell

Cuban musician Juan Formell, founder and director for more than four decades of the legendary band Los Van Van, died on Thursday, reported the evening Cuban National TV News. Director, bassist, arranger, composer, singer, and record producer, Formell was born in Havana on August 2, 1942. (7 photos)

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Gloria Estefan’s Life in Broadway Musical

Cuban singer Gloria Estefan, a US resident, is planning the release of a Broadway musical that will chronicle his life via a montage of new versions of their most popular songs. The artist spent several years planning what will be one of her most ambitious projects, to be called On Your Feet

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