Belly Dance Cuba Project
The
Bellydance Cuba Workshop is a humanitarian artistic and cultural
exchange created by hanan and the hanan arts cooperative in
December 2003. The ongoing "workshop" is a mentoring,
training and educational sponsorship of the now renown and unprecedented
bellydance troupe in Havana, Cuba named "grupo Aisha al-Hanan".
The new troupe is based out of the "Casa de los Arabes"
in La Habana Vieja; a museum and mosque dedicated to preserving
Arabic culture and history in Cuba, sponsored by the Office
of the Historian. To date, the troupe has performed in many
festivals, cultural and educational symposiums and for Arabic
Embassies throughout Havana. The Bellydance Cuba Workshop is
a volunteer based and donation driven project.
Images
by PITO
10th
annual Havana Dance Festival : March 2005
photos:
Pito, Habana, Cuba