The event will take place at the National Theater of Cuba, Avellaneda Hall, where the dance group will perform pieces such as Cautivos, in which slaves brought from Africa in captivity arrive with their ancestral rites, songs, dances and the strong will to reach freedom, according to La Papeleta portal.

Another of the show’s play is Okún, a work dedicated to the orisha Yemayá, in which the deep blue, undulating, calm or stormy sea is witness to the slave trade, and Yemayá, mother of the universe, dances frantically churning her waters.

The pas de Deux Olokun, devoted to this mystical deity of the African pantheon Yorubá who reigns unquestionably in the depths of the oceans, will also return to the scene.

The works Habanera, Oguere, Oyá, Ayanu, Danzón Barroco, among others, will also be danced from August 18 to 20, and the piece Carnavaleandoo, a divertimento that expresses through complex polyrhythms dances such as La Tahona, Guaguancó, Columbia and baile de la chancletas, will be performed at the end of the festival. Such a fun expresses the joy of these manifestations so loved in Cuba.

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