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Not long after the Cuban Revolution, the innovative choreographer Ramiro Guerra formed, under the aegis of the new state, the Conjunto Nacional de Danza Moderna, a contemporary dance company that, like the national folkloric and ballet companies, sought to project a Cuban identity to the people of its country and to the world. Guerra had studied ballet in Cuba and modern dance in New York with masters like Martha Graham and José Limón, but he wanted the company to reflect a particularly Cuban way of moving and a Cuban musicality. Choosing Cuban dancers of varying professional and racial backgrounds and associates with modern dance backgrounds from the United States and Mexico, Guerra sought to extract varied Cuban ways of moving and merge them into modern dance choreographies with Cuban import. Together with his associates, and later dancemakers in the company that is now called Danza Contemporánea de Cuba (and offshoot modern dance companies), he evolved a teaching technique, the técnica cubana, that combines a basis in modern dance with ballet and Cuban folkloric elements; it allows dancers and choreographers who master it great flexibility and virtuoso possibilities that do inde

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Author

Susanna Sloat

Publisher

KITLV Press; Brill; Leiden: Brill (ISSN 0028-9930)

Published

2014

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences