This year has been very fruitful for my career as a soloist in the company. In March I realized my premiere as Nikiya in “The Bayadere,” a beautiful ballet which had the great challenge of not having been staged in Cuba for more than six years and only the Prodanza company was doing it.
Read MoreHip hop, rap and urban music are musical genres in vogue. They are assimilated by many and scorned by others. Damian Rabilero is a professional advocate (a lawyer) but does not advocate his profession. He is a poet basically, a video producer and one of most interesting young people who have remained in the city of Santiago de Cuba.
“It’s said that we live a dizzying time, and that’s why I had the idea of breaking out of an atmosphere of a small audience in which works are read with a certain cadence. It’s also a way to present poetry as a show.”
Read MoreMauricio Ortega, 57, is a native of Guanabacoa, a municipality of the city of Havana. With a ninth grade education, among the jobs he’s held are street sweeper, security guard and ambulance driver. HT interviews Mauricio (not his real name) who is currently working for AGESP,the Security and Protection Agency.
Read MoreCuban actor Jazz Vila’s career has been associated with the group Teatro El Publico. During the recent period he has been developing his professional talent in Spain, however for the moment he is back on the island to act in the first terror movie ever made by Cuban cinema. He was selected to play one of the leading parts in the production “Juan of the Dead.”
Read MoreOne must to try to unite the useful with the satisfying. In other words, you have to try to reconcile earning a living with doing what you like. In my case, though I can’t generalize, it’s like what Marx said: “Social consciousness reflects social being,” which is to say that you think like you live.
Read MoreI was taught to be a professional, to respect the stage, that an actor has to study and always concern themself with being a good human being, because someone who is not a good human being can never be an artist.
Read MoreThe 13th JoJazz 2010 Festival just concluded in Havana. It’s an event that has led to the “discovery” of numerous young talents and been a launching pad for their careers. During the competition HT interviewed composer Leonardo Fabian Gil.
Read MoreI attended so many ceremonies that I started to get interested… The elders wouldn’t allow you to play the sacred instruments, so you had to learn to play adlib, by observing and copying. I began in a self-taught manner and they would later correct what I was doing.
Read MoreRequirements and standards are very positive for achieving efficiency. Me in particular, I like to do my job well. I have years of experience in work that has made me known as a straight shooter.
Read MoreMercedes Aguirre, my famous model friend, told me about him when she found out that I was “hunting” for interesting characters to interview. She described him as a hairdresser who was missing a leg and who lived in a small room on an upper floor of a building in the Centro Havana neighborhood.
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