The following is the monthly calendar for May 2013 of film showings at the Cinemateca de Cuba which includes the Charles Chaplin theater and the Charlot videoteca, both located on 23rd St. between 10th and 12th in Havana’s Vedado District.
Read MoreScholars have traditionally thought of posters as a form of commercial communication designed to announce, promote or sell products and seduce buyers. We have just confirmed, however, that they can tell a different story. Until the close of May, posters are on display in Havana which invoke legends drawn from the folklore and popular myths of Mexico, New Zealand and Cuba. (12 photos)
Read MoreThe best-selling Chilean novelist Isabel Allende is out with a new book, “Maya’s Notebook: A Novel.” It tells the story of a teenager named Maya Vidal and her struggles with drug addiction, grief and history. Although fiction, the story is rooted in real-life tragedy.
Read MoreAfter a great response in 2012, the time has come to begin our Cuba HT Photo Contest for the year 2013. This is the fifth such contest, one for each year of HT. The five categories for photos taken in Cuba are: Lines, Gardens, Transportation, Rain and Dance. Read on for the details.
Read MoreAs part of the recently held Urban Dance, Old Havana in Movement Festival performed the group Butoh Space Dance, led by Japanese maestro Tetsuro Fukuhara, with dancers from Japan, England and Chile. The troupe blended with the passersby that became part of the urban dance landscape. (20 photos)
Read MoreThe Variety Show companies draw upon many of the artistic possibilities (theater, dance, circus art, mime, visual art, audiovisual presentation). However, their basis is purely musical, sampling from a variety of sources and thus escaping formal definition. The script doesn’t necessarily have a single unifying theme and the performance is totally eclectic.
Read More“When we saw the call for participation, we were thrilled by the idea of taking our performance out to the street, to public spaces far from the stage, without charging admittance,” said Cyntia Moya, director of the Chilean theater troupe ‘Cyma’ at Havana’s City in Motion event.
Read MoreFor Sale (Se Vende), a newly-released Cuban film directed by established actor/director Jorge Perugorría, has an interesting logline: “When death becomes a pretext to talk about life”. An absurd comedy, a painful depiction of contemporary Cuba, painted with strokes of sarcasm and humor.
Read MoreFounded in 1927, The Ignacio Piñeiro National Septet is one of the mainstays of traditional Cuban “son” music. Many top musicians have passed through the Ignacio Piñeiro Septet in these 85 years. Today, they are constantly meeting commitments abroad and when they return to Cuba, they still perform for Cuban lovers of son in all its variants. (28 photos)
Read MoreAlfredo Guevara, founder of the Havana Film Festival, and an old friend of Fidel Castro, died today in Havana from a heart attack at age 88. Guevara was also the founder of the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry (ICAIC) created two months after the revolution triumphed in January 1959.
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