The seventeenth edition of the event, scheduled until Sunday, April 23, extends its catalog of presentations to venues in the historic center of Havana such as Creative Spaces, the Visual Arts Development Center, the Diversity Room, the Warehouses San José, and El Arca Theater.
According to organizers, the official selection includes materials by creators from Ecuador, Chile, Paraguay, Mexico, Spain, the United States, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil and the Caribbean island, while Ana Baer and Jorge Alcolea will be guest artists.
Among the pieces selected in the official exhibition are titles such as A-Tracción, by Mayra Ávalos; Bronx Magic, by Marta Renzi; Awakening, by Aldo Vanegas; Digestion, by Jorge Irán Díaz and Jara García; Dimensional, by Bernardo Orellana; Between Orixas, by Dinah Schonhaut, among others.
Baer, a choreographer and audiovisual producer of Mexican origin based in the United States, will exhibit the personal exhibition Latent Spaces / Rethought in Havana, while the Cuban based in Ecuador, Alcolea will present a choreographic work for stage and screen.
Likewise, the Choreoscope Barcelona Dance Film Festival, in Spain, will mark the beginning of a relationship of exchange of materials and collaboration between both events, with the exhibition A European focus.
The meeting’s agenda also includes workshops, thematic exhibitions, dance-video actions and a special presentation of Play dance, a project directed by filmmaker Elvys Ariel Urra Moreno, which alludes to the link between dance and technology, as well as spectator-creator .
Likewise, a projection program is being developed at the Cuban Art Factory, which includes the dance film exhibition of the Choreoscope Festival; and the presentation of the video The Empty Map and the live performance Bouncing Head by the El Pez Dorado Company (Ecuador), directed by Alcolea.
In parallel, the International Dance Festival in Urban Landscapes, known as Old Havana City in Motion, takes place in the streets, parks and squares of the Cuban capital, which takes emblematic sites of the city as stages.
Founded in 1996, the festival combines the talent of artists from different nations that break into the daily life of the streets of Old Havana, to bring viewers closer to the most contemporary samples of dance and its fusion with other manifestations.
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