Carlos Alberto Cremata, director of the Cuban company, La Colmenita, which
has just returned to the island from a successful tour of the United
States, told the media that for the first time the public will enjoy the
presentation of the play Martina, the Little Roach with its complex music
interpreted live, by musicians from the Colombian Orchestra.

Maestro Jose Francisco Arroyo Sanabria, violinist of the Philharmonic
Orchestra of Bogotá –the biggest one of Latin America-, is the founder and
general director of the Colombian children-youth cultural project that
emerged in February of 2009 in San Cristobal, a humble town of the capital
of the South American country.

Arroyo Sanabria explained that none of the members of the project attend
music schools. He said they have received lessons from the members of the
orchestra through creation workshops, where the best students join the
group and the rest become part of the choir.

He said he heard about the Cuban La Colmenita and, before even meeting the
company’s director, Cremata, he asked him for help to include the
theatrical arts in the orchestra.

Cremata arranged for Cuban instructors to travel to Colombia who trained
them in acrobatics, staged a “rueda de casino” and the play Martina, the
Little Roach, which was very successful in his country, Arroyo Sanabria said.