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Maria Emilia García: "Since I was a little girl I loved to dance. I even danced commercials, as my mother tells me. Dancing was part of my life from an early age"

Maria Emilia García: “dance and art are what make me happy”

3 September 2020 Rosmery MARTINEZ DE LOS SANTOS

María Emilia García, 34 years old, became one of the most outstanding dancers in the Dominican Republic. This passionate artist who is a member of the Ballet Nacional Dominicano studied dance in several prestigious places […]

On this occasion, the Ruta de la Rumba, as it is also known, will show a virtual program of concerts, performances of folkloric groups from several provinces, a flash back of unpublished memories of the previous editions of the festival and the international forum.

The new routes of the Cuban rumba, in the times of coronavirus

1 July 2020 Amelia Duarte de la Rosa

From August 16 to 24, 2020, Cuba will celebrate the International Timbalaye Festival “La Ruta de la Rumba” in a different way because of the coronavirus pandemic. The 12th edition will be enjoyed on online […]

Viengsay Valdés, from premiere dancer to director of the Cuban National Ballet

29 January 2020 Amelia Duarte de la Rosa

The death at 98 of Alicia Alonso, the most iconic dancer in Latin America, orphaned the Cuban dance movement, because she was its foster mother and the ambassador of Cuban ballet. Viengsay Valdés is now the […]

Sébastien Nicolas showed his street jazz at the MACTe

9 July 2019 Évelyne Chaville

On Saturday, June 22, the Memorial ACTe and the Bleu Outremer Festival team offered dance lovers two workshops as part of the “Urban memories”: the first, dedicated to the KRUMP, was held in the morning […]

Haitian dancer, Makerson François, presented Krump at the MACTe

4 July 2019 Évelyne Chaville

On Saturday, June 22, the Memorial ACTe received the talented Haitian artistic director and choreographer Makerson François. The artist came to teach the Guadeloupean audience Krump, one of the branches of the big tree that […]

Matthieu Plantier made the MACTe audience dance

2 July 2019 Évelyne Chaville

On Friday, June 21, the day of La Fête de la Musique, the Memorial ACTe in Pointe-à-Pitre (Guadeloupe) proposed to the audience to dance traditional and contemporary sounds with dancer and choreographer Matthieu Plantier and […]

“Nou Sé Nonm”: the special Kalakaswé of May 27 by Dimension Ka

4 June 2018 Évelyne Chaville

On the occasion of the abolition of slavery celebrated on May 27 in Guadeloupe, the Mémorial ACTe, Caribbean Center for Expressions and Memory of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Slavery”, proposed to the public a […]

Cynthia Phibel: "Each dancer, each choreographer who comes to promote the seven rhythms of gwoka has his own artistic writing which gives a very beautiful and diverse "landscape".

Kalakaswé: an introduction to gwoka, renewed every month

17 April 2018 Évelyne Chaville

Since 2015, the Memorial ACTe in Pointe-à-Pitre (Guadeloupe) offers once a month an introduction to gwoka dance called “Kalakaswé” and animated by a choreographer. Gwoka music is played by “tanbouyé” among them Fanswa Ladrézeau. “Kalakaswé” […]

Our grandmothers danced very well quadrille

6 March 2018 Évelyne Chaville

For 9 years, the cultural association “Akadémiduka”, founded in 1986 by the well-known Jacqueline Cachemire-Thôle and currently chaired by Nadia Pater, has been inviting the associations of the archipelago of Guadeloupe to “On Bon Maten, […]

The dance troupe "Viré Gadé" (Photo: Jacques Miath)

The troupe “Viré Gadé” revives the biguine dance

22 December 2017 Évelyne Chaville

After some time in a dormant stage, the association “Jénès Doubout” created in 2006 woke up and, in 2015, it founded its troupe called “Viré Gadé” which dance only to biguine music. Composed today of […]