Music is the art, theory and technique of combining sound with melody and harmony. Pedagogy is the discipline of educating and teaching. The person I interviewed, Adriana Asseff, has succeeded in merging these two pursuits.
Read MoreAs 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.”
Read More“Scientists say we’re made of atoms, but a little birdie told me we’re made of stories. One truth of the Mayan Indians is that we’re children of the days, and therefore every day a new story is born.”
Read MoreOne 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)
Read MoreI began to write my first plays on the eve of the Special Period and wrote many in the middle of those years that were so difficult for Cubans, as we faced so many hardships and vicissitudes. I wanted to narrate all those events, rid myself of that feeling of impotence…
Read MoreHe has preserved his thin body and tender face of twenty years ago. We met each other at the Movement of Amateur Theatre Artists, where it took me little time to realize my lack of talent for acting. For Andres Enrique Perez Viciedo, though, it seems he still hasn’t given up on his dream.
Read MoreInterview with Cuban actor Ivan Garcia about his role playing author Virgilio Piñera in Tomás Piard’s made for TV film “If you’re going to eat, wait for Virgilio”.
Read MoreYoung Harold Lopez Nussa is among the great pianists of Cuba. “I think we should pay more attention to jazz in the teaching process,” he said in his interview with HT.
Read MoreAs part of the celebration of “Virgilio Piñero Year” to commemorate the centenary of the Cuban writer, Cuban TV commissioned filmmaker Tomas Piard, to do a dramatized version of “If you’re going to eat, wait for Virgilio” a highly successful theatre play written by Jose Milian.
Read MoreI got to know Wollette Tsehay Gabriel Tafari (Marbys Guzmán Palomo) in 2010. We were both trying to sign up on a diploma course on Humanism and Society being given at the San Juan de Letrand Convent in Havana.
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