Lorna Feijóo, who currently dances with the Boston Ballet Company, will always be a star of the Cuban Ballet. “Cuba has been the setting where I’ve felt the greatest emotion,” she told us during her interview with Havana Times.
“The Danza Espiral Dance Company from the city of Matanzas has emerged from that primary vortex of ideas,” said its director, Lilian Padron, in her interview with Havana Times.
Niurka Reyes remains one of the great voices of the Cuban song today. “I’m passionate, dedicated, true, but above all I’m an artist who loves what I do – and I’m very respectful of my audience,” she said in her interview.
Maykel Sotomayor is a young creator of visual arts who is defining the path of this work on the island today. He’s motivated by what’s called object-oriented and landscape art; after he first dabbled in graphical humor.
Clarinet player Haskell Armenteros directs the Vientos Nueva Camerata chamber music group and at the same time performs with the popular Grupo Compay Segundo band. Nonetheless, we found out that the clarinet wasn’t exactly the instrument that first captured his interest in music.
Cinema and theater director Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti spoke with Havana Times about his most recent and controversial work for the stage, La Hijastra, in addition to sharing some exclusive revelations with us.
Donato Poveda is a Cuban artist who emerged from the movement called “Nueva Trova”, someone whose work conserves the glory days of Cuban music. He agreed to give an exclusive interview with Havana Times after having lived for many years outside of the island.
“To me, choreography represents a manifestation of intimate and public rebellion. It also involves a service and a possibility of establishing contact based on memory and emotions,” said Laura Domingo in her interview with HT.
As the 23rd Havana Ballet Festival nears (Oct. 28 – Nov. 7) we interview the great maestro of Cuban ballet Fernando Alonso. ” I feel very happy when I see how the theater fills, how the people applaud, how much ballet is loved here in Cuba, and how so many people want to study it.”
One of the greats of Cuban visual arts today is Ileana Mulet. She told us: “Two places were the “school of life” for me. One was being an interior decorator for the tourist industry for over seventeen years, and the other was working as a costume designer for television for five years.” (8 photos)