Madrid Spain.- Eight dancers from the popular company Lizt Alfonso Dance Cuba (LADC) stayed in Madrid, Spain, leaving the team with which they had been touring Europe.
As reported to the media Cuba News 360 sources close to the group, these are some of the main figures of the cast: Helen Rodríguez, Aldair García, Camila Leonard, Jessica María, Yillian Cuesta, Chabelis Hernández, Lorena Flroes and Luis Miranda.
LADC tour of Europe
The performance in Madrid was the last stop on a journey that began on July 5 at the Deutsches Theater Munich, in Germany.
The company presented itself with the show “¡Cuba Vibra!” in several European cities, showing typical Cuban music and dance from the 1950s to the present.
Prior to the tour, the choreographer and director of the group, Lizt Alfonso, had declared to Latin Press: “After this time of the COVID-19 pandemic, our return to the theaters of the world is wonderful, performances that constitute a natural process for us, lubricating that mechanism is something that we missed and longed for.”
During the tour, the company continued to share the success of its time on European stages through social networks.
“Since 1985, in the months of July and August, the Veranos de la Villa has been celebrated in Madrid, a cultural event that brings together great national and foreign artists. This year, as part of a varied program, the Lizt Alfonso Dance Cuba company was invited, which with the show “Cuba vibra!”, was presented on July 20 and 21, in the Central Patio of the Conde Duque Cultural Center, main stage of the event. And Cuba vibrated with the dancers and musicians directed by the unbeatable dancer, teacher and choreographer. Shouts of ¡Bravo!, ¡Guapa!, and even ¡Viva Cuba! were heard repeatedly during the performance of the Cuban artists”, reads one of the publications in Facebook.
Lizt Alfonso Company
The Lizt Alfonso Dance Cuba School, one of the most prestigious dance companies on the island, was created in 1992. During all these years “hundreds of children and adolescents have passed through its halls, cultivating a love for art and dance, music, in addition to the discipline, perseverance, life goals, teamwork and personality that are instilled in them”, he reviews on his website.
Lizt Alfonso and LADC have shared the stage with renowned groups and figures such as the National Ballet of Cuba, the Milan Scala Ballet, the National Folkloric Ensemble of Cuba, the Buenavista Social Club, the musical groups Ojos de Brujo and ChocQuibTown, the Opera Nacional de Cuba, the singers Omara Portuondo, Enrique Iglesias, Descemer Bueno, Gente de Zona, Nicky Jam, the pianists Frank Fernández and Chucho Valdés and the first dancers Carlos Acosta and Viengsay Valdés, among others.
The “abandonment” of the dancers, another drop in the current migration crisis
By deciding to stay in Spain, the dancers join the thousands of Cubans who have left the country in the last year. Among them the singers of the choir Entrevoces, of the teacher Digna Guerra, announcers Radio and television, doctors and athletes.
So far in 2022, at least forty athletes have left Cuba. Among them the baseball players Wilfredo Aroche, Yosimar Cousín, Yunior Tur and Miguel Rolando Camacho Yanes; the fighters Leonardo Herrera, Amanda Hernández; the sailors Iris Laura Manso and Carlos Miguel Expósito; boxers Kevin Brown and Herich Ruiz; and recently the Javelin thrower Yiselena Ballar.
The number of Cubans who arrived in the United States from October 1, 2021 (beginning of the current fiscal year) to May 31, 2022 reached record figure of 140,602.
This data, revealed last June by the Department of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), confirms that Cuba is going through the greatest migration crisis in its history, surpassing the 125,000 Cubans who arrived in the US during the Mariel exodus in 1980.
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