“Cuba Danza” - At Havana the ballet also speaks Italian

"Cuba Danza" - At Havana the ballet also speaks Italian (book presentation)

The word dance, in Cuba, is such a vast universe that it is a great challenge to tell it, beyond the fascination of rhythms and sounds and bodies "born to dance" that inhabit the Isla Grande of the Caribbean.

Before the nationalist revolution of Fidel Castro, the focus of colonial and postcolonial governments was on the Caribbean luxury of cabarets like the Tropicana, on the lure of "vice" nightclubs, where to drink, smoke, flirt in the name of a cheerfully overflowing and multiracial eros , or on theaters for the white bourgeoisie where the European model of elitist cultural consumption was borrowed with operas, concerts, ballets.

After 1959 the new government directs, promotes, authorizes, supports, controls, finances and manages shows and entertainments according to a concept that also looks at non-white oral cultures that will prove to be very attractive for welcome tourist flows to the coffers of the beautiful and needy Isla Grande del Caribe.

In the approach to today's complexity, the result of many upheavals, and to understand the pervasive centrality of dance and the dancing body in Cuba, an event that united the two choreo-dance extremes of the "g-local" reality mixed islander.