The Cuban delegation is composed of BNC Historian Miguel Cabrera, maître Consuelo Dominguez and dancers Yanlis Abreu and Luis Valle. This is the fifth time the Cuban troupe attends this event.

The BNC will perform at the opening galas on Tuesday and Wednesday scheduled for the National Theater, and at the Culture center of Santiago de los Colorados on March 13, 14 and 15. It will also attend the didactic presentation An Encounter with Dance: technique, expression and styles, to be held at the Dance Center, the institution sponsoring the Festival, directed by Susana Reyes and Moti Deren, prestigious personalities from the field of culture in that fraternal country.

Likewise, BNC sources told ACN that Cubans will participate in the meeting called Heritage Evenings, aimed at reflecting on Latin American cultural roots, as well as in lectures on the history of dance, at general teaching schools and specialized centers.

Also attending this meeting of art and friendship, organized in the year in which Quito has been declared the American Capital of Culture, is Hungarian dancer Batarita Tarsulat, a well-known interpreter of the Butoh style, as well as the Mexican Company of Lola Lince; Nuestras Raices and Kallpañan, from Bolivia; the Luis Beltran Folk Ballet of Venezuela; Semi, from Israel; Aziza Doxo, from Benin; and the Ecuadorian National Ballet, among other local groups.

The premiere on March 14 in Ecuador of the film “Alicia Alonso: orbita de una leyenda”, by Jose Ramon Neyra -at the Dance Center’s Honor Hall- will be a special tribute to the general director of the BNC, prima ballerina assoluta Alicia Alonso.