Danza Contemporánea de Cuba Closes Its Year at the National Theatre

Danza Contemporánea de Cuba, under the direction of maestro Miguel Iglesias, announces a performance season to take place in the Avellaneda Hall of the National Theatre on Friday the 5th, Saturday the 6th (7:00 p.m.), and Sunday, December 8th (5:00 p.m.). The program features the Cuban premiere of Wolves at Dawn, a choreographic creation by Julio César Iglesias Ungo, and the restaging of Reversible by Annabelle López Ochoa.

First presented this past July at the Pina Bausch Zentrum in Wuppertal, Wolves at Dawn proposes a choreographic journey that moves between the mythical, the dystopian, and the profoundly human, articulated around a disquieting question: are we fallen angels guarding a laboratory where humanity attempts to remake itself? From that image, the performers embody bodies in transit and transformation, moving in a territory where the loss of innocence leaves room only for the urgency to reconstruct a possible "us."

On stage, Iglesias Ungo constructs a symbolic universe populated with gestures and signs: the shared apple, the awakening bodies, the observing guardians, the earth covering the bodies at the end. This Cuban version accentuates the visceral and collective nature of the piece, thanks to the expressive power and musicality of the dancers of Danza Contemporánea de Cuba.

The season's program is completed with the restaging of Reversible, a creation by Belgian-Colombian choreographer Annabelle López Ochoa. This piece, with marked symbolic and emotional weight, delves into gender roles and their cultural constructions, proposing an interrogation of social norms and expectations.

With these two works, Danza Contemporánea de Cuba reaffirms its vocation as a creative laboratory where different worldviews and movement styles converge.

Translated by Sergio A. Paneque Díaz / CubaSí Translation Staff