The Litz Alfonso Ballet is presented in Canada with the show AMIGAS, tour that will last until February 27 through major cities in Québec, always with the Cuban heat and energy transmitted through dance and fusion music.

Sources from the company told ACN that this is the sixth time the group visits that nation and that this time it makes it to offer its art in over 10 points of the vast geography of the northern country and at iconic venues like the Place des Arts in Montreal. The payroll of the company includes the ballerinas Yadira Yasell, Niurka Reyes, Sandra Reyes, Yaíma Sáez, Yaraidy Fernández and María Carla Cardona; the dancer Jerlandys Milian, percussionist Oddebí García, the presenter will be José Luis Pérez and Osvaldo Doimeadiós shall be the TV coordinator.

The intimate life of José Martí and traits of character revealed by graphology inspire Ercilio Vento Canosa, author of the research into the death of the Apostle newly included among the most remarkable scientific papers in 2014, in the province of Matanzas.

Historian also employs this western town preparing a series of texts that delve into the personality of the National Hero of Cuba, in order to explore facets not previously reflected in traditional literature.

Artemisa, Cuba - The Provincial Center for the Visual Arts Eduardo Abela exhibits in its halls the participating works at Ruben Suarez Quidiello Hall, within the methodological actions, the institution performs various workshops including the rubberized wire and papier mache.

To promote the development of handicraft created from knowledge is the purpose of the workshop sponsored by the Cuban Association of Craft Artists (ACAA), members of José Martí brigade and interested in the eagerness to learn, willing to create with the artistic sensibility blow up to initiatives to participants attending each week in the morning session on Thursdays.

The Cuban film Vestido de Novia or Dressed like a Bride is currently being screened in Havana’s most important movie theaters, featuring the story of first Cuban who had a sex reassignment surgery.

Starred by Laura de la Uz, Isabel Santos and Luis Alberto García, the film, which won the Popularity or Audience’s Award at Havana’s 36th New Latin American Film Festival in December, 2014, was directed by Marily Solaya, who had already made a documentary titled In the Wrong Body.

Havana - Government and cultural personalities unveiled today a plaque accrediting the name of the emblematic pedagogue Fernando Alonso to the national ballet school.

The National Cuban Ballet historian, Miguel Cabrera, extolled the founder of the company and the academy and his technical sense and his intellectual and scientific worry to assume art as an act of thought. Cabrera explained that the pedagogical forum Fernando Alonso in memoriam held last October under his conduction, exposed the international transcendence of the maestro of most of the jewels of the Cuban ballet.

Havana -The National Ballet of Cuba (BNC) will present again next February the world classic Swan Lake, according to a statement by the institution.

This obligatory piece in the repertoire of all major companies in the world will be available to the public in this capital on February 13, 14 and 15 and then on the 20, 21 and 22 of the same month at the National Theatre.