CAMAGÜEY.- The Olorum Festival, promoted by the Folkloric Ballet of Camagüey, will be celebrated from December 20 to 23 in this city, its tenth edition and 30 years of the company of maestro Reinaldo Echemendía Estrada.

The event will also pay special tribute to the first dancers Elsa María Avilés Carmenate and Janixe del Rosario Jiménez Sánchez, deserving of the 2021 Olorum Prize for the work of life, it was said at a press conference.

Although reduced to three days, it will keep the usual program options

with theoretical sessions at the Santa Cecilia Convention Center, dance workshops, and presentations in squares and theaters.

The public will enjoy the invited groups Babul, from Guantánamo; Dance of the Soul, from Villa Clara; and the JJ company, from Havana; and of the Camagüey's women, both professionals and the amateur movement.

“We want Olorum to be the great party, not just for folk dance but of popular and traditional culture in Cuba ”, emphasized Kenny Ortigas Guerrero, president of the Provincial Council of Performing Arts.

The announcement was made from the lobby bar La pergola, of the Plaza Hotel, right on the 114th anniversary day of the facility that will provide its services to the festival, including the gift of the Olorum cocktail, at the initiative of the bartender Alberto Castellanos.

Precisely Olorum, as was insisted, summons forces of culture from Camagüey, radiates its good energy and multiplies in the action of various institutions and personalities of the province and the country.

Translated by Linet Acuña Quilez