Dance in construction, blurring lines
Amelia Duarte de la
Rosa
To encourage creativity in dance which, as Mexican
dancer and choreographer Cecilia Appleton noted,
often emerges in the quietest echoes of a body which
needs to express, through movement, what it wants to
say, what it can not articulate or describe, will be
the focus of the International Workshop for Young
Dance Choreographers in Construction 2014, November
14-22.
In the Escambray theatre and neighboring areas of
the mountainous territory in the country’s central
region, creators from Haiti, the Dominican Republic,
Guadalupe and Cuba will come together under the
title of Danza, desdibujando sus fronteras (Dance,
blurring lines), with the aim of exploring the
different ways of realizing and considering dance,
as well as its links and associations with other
arts.
Organized by the National Council of Performing Arts
with the collaboration of the French Alliance, the
French embassy in Cuba and the French Institute, the
Dance in Construction workshop includes in its
program academic exchanges and master classes with
choreographers Acerina Amador (Spain); Daniel
Larrieu and Franck Jamin (France); Cubans José
Antonio Chávez (Camagüey Ballet); Clotilde Peón
(National Ballet of Cuba); Susana Pous (DanzAbierta);
Lilian Padrón (Danza Espiral) and Sandra Ramy (Danza
Persona).
Likewise, young dancers selected from among Cuba’s
various professional companies and students from the
Advanced Institute of Art will present their
creations in public performances in the communities
of Escambray and at the Mejunje cultural center in
Santa Clara.
This event, which links the creative-investigative
experience of the dancing body as a vehicle of
communication, expression and performance, has
become “a nucleus of analysis and creation based on
invention, modulation, and transferences which
traverse contemporary dance,” according to critic
and researcher Noel Bonilla.
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