• Submitted by: lena campos
• Arts and Culture
• 05 / 25 / 2012

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Dedicated to Andalucia, the Cuban festival La Huella de España, will show from next Sunday the ties between that country and the island regarding dance, music, cinema, visual arts and literature .


The main promoter of the event, the prima ballerina Alicia Alonso, emphasized at a press conference that this is the 24 edition.

She said that Cuba is the only country in the world that recognizes the input of Spain, and added that blood should not be ignored.

The party will start in the popular Paseo del Prado, in the heart of Old Havana, and it will continue in the Great Theater of Havana, with a gala headed, among others, by the Spanish Ballet and the company Lizt Alfonso.

Among the guests is the troubadour Andres Suarez, who will join his guitar to Cuban pop duo Buena Fe in a concert as part of his Latin American tour Cuando vuelva la marea "When the Tide Returns".

The presence of Lorca, Rafael Alberti, Juan Ramón Jiménez and Antonio Machado, will be in several panels, discussions, and performances.

The author of Blood Wedding, for example, will be honored with the piece Preciosa y el aire "Beauty and the Air", choreographed by Alicia Alonso, the world premiere of "The Crime was in Granada", and the play "The Prodigious Shoemaker".

Various groups that cultivate the flamenco in the island, and singers like Omara Portuondo, Ivette Cepeda, Johanna Simon and Andres Correa, will enhance the event.

Founded in the late 1980s, the festival will run until June 3.