Renowned Cuban ballet dancer, Carlos Acosta, will retire from classical dance with a new production of Carmen which the Royal Ballet is set to premiere in September, 2015.... More
A gala by the National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by maestro Guido López-Gavilán, closed the 28th International Cubadisco 2014 Festival at Havana’s National Theater.... More
Renowned Cuban poet, actor and musician, Luis Carbonell, also known as "the water-colorist of Antillean poetry”, passed away in Havana at the age of 90.... More
Two pieces by renowned Venezuelan choreographer, Vicente Nebrada, will be premiered by the Cuban National Ballet Company during Havana’s International Ballet Festival, set for October 28 through November 7.... More
Havana, May 24 (RHC) -- Renowned Cuban poet and actor Luis Carbonell died today at the age of 90 in Havana.... More
Renowned Cuban declaimer and musician, Luis Carbonell, also known as "the Watercolorist of Antillean Poetry”, passed away in Havana at the age of 90.... More
The contemporary ballet company Endedans celebrates its 12th anniversary this weekend with the world premiere of By Friction by renowned Danish choreographer, Jens Bjerregaard, at the Principal Theater in Camagüey. ... More
Celebrations marking the 30th anniversary of the Havana International Fine Art Biennial kick off on Thursday with a theoretical encounter on the significance of Cuba’s most important visual arts event over 30 years.... More
Cuban pianist and jazz musician, Ernán López-Nussa, won the Grand Prix at the 18th International Cubadisco Fair, Cuba’s top recording industry festival, for his album Sacrilegio, produced by the record label Colibrí.... More
The book Arroyo Blanco: Churchill’s Cuban route by International Relations expert and researcher, Lourdes María Méndez, was launched at the Fayad Jamis book store, dealing with an almost unknown event in Cuban history, involving the future British leader... More
The 30th anniversary of Havana’s Fine Arts Biennial is being celebrated this year in May under the slogan “a living lab”. ... More
Musicians, students and professors from the US University of Richmond, Virginia, and the State University of Pennsylvania will perform at the opening of the 31st Concierto Santiago Festival along with their Cuban colleagues and partners from the eastern city’s Esteban Salas Music School.... More
The Romerías de Mayo Cultural Festival is underway in the eastern city of Holguín, focusing on young art on the island. ... More
Cubans are packing several Havana movie theaters as the 12th French Film Festival got underway in the Cuban capital to pay tribute to filmmaker Francois Truffaut.... More
Thousands of Cubans paid tribute to deceased Cuban musician Juan Formell in concerts all across the island over the weekend. The main concert was held at Havana’s Anti-imperialist Tribune, where popular orchestras, bands, singers and performers in general joined Cubans to pay homage to Formell, the director of the legendary band Los Van Van, whose former members also participated. Versions of famous compositions by Formell were performed by Cuban musicians, such as renowned pianist Frank Fernández, the children’s theater company La Colmenita, and salsa bands, to the tune of which people who attended the concerts danced. Juan Formell passed away unexpectedly on Thursday at the age of 71. In 1969 Formell set up Los Van Van, later baptized as “the train of Cuban music”, directed the group until he died and recorded 30 albums, one of which Llegó Van Van (Van Van is here), took home a Granmy Award in 1999. Experts consider Los Van Van as the Los Beatles of Cuban music, and Formell, as the leader of a revolution in popular Cuban dancing music when he Thousands of Cubans paid tribute to deceased Cuban musician Juan Formell in concerts all across the island over the weekend.created “”songo”, a genre whose basis is Cuban “son”. ... More
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