Havana, Apr 20 (Prensa Latina) Cuban dancer and choreographer Alfredo O'Farrill Pacheco received on Saturday the National Dance 2024 Award. After having evaluated the trajectory of the eight nominees, the jury decided unanimously to award the prize to O’Farrill Pacheco, a figure of folkloric dance, artistically alias Papa Shango.
Havana, Feb 24 (Prensa Latina) The popular Cuban artist Juana Bacallao died today in this capital at the age of 98, after days of hospitalization in serious condition, reported the Cuban Institute of Music.
Havana, Dec 26 (Prensa Latina) The 2023 National Prize for Social and Humanistic Sciences was awarded today to the Cuban academic and anthropologist Juan Jesús Guanche Pérez, with a recognized career in teaching and several published works.
Havana, Dec 3 (Prensa Latina) Cuban filmmaker Daniel Diez Castrillo, a prominent documentary filmmaker and sound engineer, died at the age of 77 in this capital, the vice president of the Institute of Information and Social Communication of Cuba, Onelio Castle, confirmed on Facebook on Sunday.