Carnaval à la Havane
Carnaval à la Havane
Carnaval à la Havane
The Havana carnival, like the Rio carnival, is an opportunity for Cubans to parade for several days and nights through the city streets while dancing. Less prestigious than that of Brazil, this festival nevertheless retains an essential value of social unification. Once a year, black, mixed race and white people get together to the beat of the “comparsa”. Claude Santiago reproduces here its energy and emotion.
The Cuban “comparsa”, equivalent to the Brazilian samba school, designates both the dance and the group of dancers performing it. People organise themselves by district, and each “comparsa” represents an episode from Cuban history or a small play. The colours and traditions derived from varied ethnic heritages merge and the differences fade to let the party begin. In the 18th century, these processions grouped slaves who paraded in various ceremonial outfits for Epiphany. Today, the festival takes on the appearance of an exorcism of the island’s slavery past. Enrique Nunez Rodriguez analyses this phenomenon with delicacy: “In periods of plenty as in hard times, the common denominator is joy. This people has always resisted difficulties.”
Western classical dance enters the modernity of the 20th century: The Ballets russes and the Ballets suédois
If the 19th century is that of romanticism, the entry into the new century is synonymous of modernity! It was a few decades later that it would be assigned, a posteriori, the name of “neo-classical”.
Bagouet Collection
The Dance Biennial Défilé
The BNP Paribas Foundation
Indian dances
Discover Indian dance through choreographic creations which unveil it, evoke it, revisit it or transform it!
les ballets C de la B and the aesthetic of reality
Black Dance
Why do I dance ?
Artistic Collaborations
Panorama of different artistic collaborations, from « couples » of choreographers to creations involving musicians or plasticians
Meeting with literature
Collaboration between a choreographer and a writer can lead to the emergence of a large number of combinations. If sometimes the choreographer creates his dance around the work of an author, the writer can also choose dance as the subject of his text.
Dance and performance
Here is a sample of extracts illustrating burlesque figures in Performances.
Round dance
Presentation of the Round’s figure in choreography.
The Dance Biennale
Female / male
A walk between different conceptions and receptions of genres in different styles and eras of dance.
Dance and visual arts
Dance and visual arts have often been inspiring for each other and have influenced each other. This Parcours can not address all the forms of their relations; he only tries to show the importance of plastic creation in some choreographies.
Hip hop / Influences
This Course introduce to what seems to be Hip Hop’s roots.