Cuban music and dance is more than salsa dancing. Cuba’s African roots hold worlds of rhythm and dance opportunity and a lifetime of learning.
For many people, when they think of dance in Cuba, it's almost impossible to think of anything other than salsa, rhumba, cha cha cha or the Afro Influenced Folkloric forms. Cuba is also world renowned however, for dance in many…
Happily Presenting La Cubana Pura: Professional Dance Expert and Author MAYLENIS ORTEGA PÉREZ See May on YouTube Find May on Facebook and Instagram@soy_cuba_yoruba_soy I'm thrilled to present Maylenis Ortega Pérez to my readers on The Breath of Cuba blog. Maylenis is…
FiDanza happens every year in Trinidad, Cuba at the end of April. Hosted at the Casa de Cultura, Palenque and other cultural music spots in the city, FiDanza features all types of dance forms from folkloric to modern and ballet.…
This article is another share from my dance teacher and close friend, Maylenis Ortega. She will be sharing more with us on the blog of her vast knowledge of the history and practice of the dances in Cuba. She writes…
Fiesta Del Tambor 2018: An Honest Review The name brings images of street parades of drummers and dancers: The Party of Drums. It's easy to envision in Cuba, thousands of drummers parading the streets, rocking us into high ecstatic states…
Cubans love to dance and dancing is always the most fun when the whole community is dancing together. This is just another day in a normal life in Trinidad Cuba for me and many of my artists and musician friends.…
Trinifolk is an awesome cultural event, this year (2017) held from Nov 27-Dec 2 in Trinidad, Cuba just a block away from where I live, at the Casa de Cultura on Calle Rosario. The celebration is dedicated to Amador Ramírez,…
It's almost impossible to think about Cuba and not feel the passion of it's music stir inside. Cuba and it's contagious, powerful rhythms and melodies are one and the same. In my almost 8 years of enjoying this culture firsthand…
This Article was Submitted by Maylenis Ortega of Trinidad, Cuba. Maylenis and I met in July of 2016 in Trinidad and fell in love dancing together in Trinidad. I asked May to start sharing more of her knowledge with us…
I was invited to attend FIHAV from October 30 to November 3, 2017 at the EXPOCUBA fairground as a guest by my friend, Dominic Soave. Dominic is the editor of Cuba Plus Magazine. FIHAV is known to be the most important…