Artists from Cuba, Germany and Mexico won the main prizes of the Circuba 2022 International Festival, which concluded this Sunday in Santiago de Cuba.
After four days of presentations at the Heredia Theater, the contest’s jury — chaired by Pavel Kotov, senior casting director of the renowned Circo del Sol — awarded first place to the Havana Company, from Cuba. A regular winner at these events, this group has now prevailed thanks to its acrobatic swing act, one of the most applauded by the public that filled the Santiago installation.
Meanwhile, the second place went to the young German Joana Lokaichuk, from Germany, for her performance in the artistic discipline of arm wrestling, while the third place went to the Mexican Javier Jiménez, for his number of aerial tapes, according to review the Cuban News Agency (ACN).
In addition, the popularity award went to Steven Reyna, from Peru, who captivated the audience at the Heredia Theater with his 1.75 and 3.50 meter high unicycles and his marabares with balls, hoops and canes.
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Similarly, the Belarusian artists from the Arena Circus Arts Center, the clown Lollipop and the magician Jeison, both from Cuba, and the German Jiska Marlene received collateral awards.
For the host country, the young Ronald Pérez was also awarded, laureate by the State Academy of Circus Arts of Berlin and by the Provincial Council of Performing Arts of Santiago de Cuba, a province that successfully hosted the competitive circus event, in which Artists from more than 10 countries participated.
This is the first time that the event has been held outside of Havana in its 18 editions, since its creation in the 1980s. Currently, the festival is considered one of the most important of its kind in the American continent and , particularly in Latin America.
