From the darkened wings of Havana’s national theater Ariel Serrano stares toward the brightly-lit stage, where the finalists in the XII Concurso Internacional para Jóvenes Estudiantes de Ballet, an international ballet competition for aspiring student dancers, await the announcement of the winners. (8 photos)
Read MorePopular Cuban salsa singer Issac Delgado, known as “El Chevere de la Salsa”, decided to return to his native land permanently and is discreetly seeking to get back into the national music scene.
Read More“In view of the fact that my books aren’t allowed into Cuba – neither by customs nor the mail -, which amounts to prohibiting my work as a writer, I hereby resign from UNEAC,” stated well known Cuban poet Rafael Alcides Perez.
Read MoreDance is one of the oldest and most sublime forms of artistic expression. Today, we will be conversing with Cuban dancer and choreographer Yanosky Suarez. “The body offers us many possibilities if we set out to use it as a vehicle for expression.”
Read MoreThe Cuban capital once boasted around 130 movie theaters, more than there were in New York or Paris at the time. Many of these cinemas were directly serviced by the major production and distribution companies, such as 20th Century Fox, Columbia and Metro Goldwyin Meyer. (30 photos)
Read MoreThe legendary Cuban band Buena Vista Social Club will begin its long farewell tour on June 25 in Europe with a concert in Prague. The tour will take the group to several countries including Spain, the United States and in South America.
Read MoreThe paintings of Carlos Barrera Portas (Havana, 1976), a Cuban visual artist also known as Abeth, depict the symbiosis of human beings with their surroundings, the constant exchange that takes place between the individual and society. All of his works are in black and white.
Read More“This may be the right time to organize an Arab Culture Festival in Cuba,” says Gretel Llabre, dancer, choreographer and director of the dance company Q-band Soho in her interview for Havana Times.
Read MoreWhen famed ballerina Alicia Alonso takes the National Ballet of Cuba on tours abroad the risk of losing dancers is always present. This time the desertion took place in Puerto Rico and the artists are already in Miami.
Read MoreSinger Danay Bautista’s Cuban jazz has succeeded in Spain and she has just finished recording her first album (Live) there. “There is much to be learned in a different country,” she tells us during her interview with Havana Times.
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