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Interviews with Cuban culture icons

  • Cuban Theatre

“Art must overcome everything, culture is life” interview with Fatima Patterson on what theatre means to her

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 07/02/202101/01/2022

As Fatima Patterson, Cuban theatre actor, playwright and director, 2017 Cuban Theatre National Award winner,…

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  • Cuban Dance

Interview with two young Cuban dancers about “dancing like in another dimension”

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 26/11/2020

Mario and Víctor Varela are brothers and co-workers. For some years now, they have danced…

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  • Cuban Dance

A conversation with Cuba’s 2020 National Dance Award winner Johannes Garcia, maestro of AfroCuban dance theatre

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 11/10/202023/10/2020

Johannes García, director of the Cuban Traditional Dances company (Compañía de Danzas Tradicionales JJ), will…

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  • Cuban Theatre

Art on the move – interview with a young Cuban community arts worker in Venezuela

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 11/10/202011/10/2020

Cuban art instructor Yanila Rodríguez Gómez has had to face the pandemic alongside Venezuelans, which…

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  • Interviews

Wasp Network: interview with director of the new film about the Cuban Five (+watch trailer)

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 23/06/202011/10/2020

The feature film ‘Wasp Network’ by French director Olivier Assayas, has just been released this…

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  • Interviews

“In these times art has been vital for many people” Cuban artist Glenda Salazar interviewed

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 08/06/202024/04/2021

In Cuba, Glenda Salazar (Holguín, 1982) is one of the most outstanding creators of Land…

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  • Cuban Music

For International Jazz Day – the legacy of Irakere + young Cuban jazz stars looking to the future

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 30/04/202018/07/2020

To celebrate #InternationalJazzDay this 30 April – watch this interview with Chucho Valdes — Cuban…

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  • Cuban Music

Omar Puente: “passing on my knowledge to a new generation”

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 05/09/2019

Internationally acclaimed Cuban violinist Omar Puente is performing a special show in London this November…

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  • Cuban Architecture

Interview with Eusebio Leal Spengler, on the restoration of Old Havana

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 24/07/201903/08/2020

To say ‘Eusebio Leal Spengler’ is to say Havana – how many other cities have…

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  • Cuban Art

The important thing is what you don’t see: interview with Toirac, Cuban National Arts Award winner

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 28/02/201928/02/2019

The artist, recently honoured with the National Award for Visual Arts 2018, attempts to reveal…

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  • Cuban Music

CIMAFUNK on top: interview by Cubahora

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 28/12/201828/12/2018

In 2018 the track and video clip “Me voy” by Cimafunk has been a massive…

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  • Cuban Dance

Dreaming big: interview with Carlos Acosta about new film ‘Yuli’

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 10/12/201804/08/2020

Carlos Acosta talked with Cuban media Juventud Rebelde about his new film Yuli being presented…

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  • Cuban Film

Latin America Film Festival in Havana: building cinema love: Interview with Ivan Giroud

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 18/11/201819/02/2019

CONVERSATION WITH IVÁN GIROUD, PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF NEW LATIN AMERICAN CINEMA interviewed…

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  • Cuban Literature

“For me everything started in a literary workshop”: young Cuban writer Ahmel Echevarria

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 24/07/201814/08/2018

by: Orsola Casagrande Born in Havana in 1974, Ahmel Echevarria graduated in mechanical engineering but…

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  • Interviews

The loves and hopes of Raquel: female director of Cuban drama series interviewed

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 12/07/201802/03/2019

by: Granma.cu ‘Of loves and hopes’ comes to the Cuban small screen this summer, with…

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