CAMAGÜEY.- The international Camagua Folk Dance festival adds competitions for dance couples, and for the first time it will have the physical participation of foreign dancers, from December 14th to 17th in this city.

Through digital platforms it will promote 20 companies, with videos sent from... Portugal, Uruguay, Poland, Costa Rica, Philippines, Chile, Spain, Thailand, Paraguay, Bulgaria, Colombia, Kenya, Japan, Ecuador, Haiti, Serbia and Georgia.

It still maintains the virtual programming that marked its emergence under the circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic, although that interest has decreased, explained founding president Fernando Medrano.

The festival adds a fraternal segment with couples from Colombia, Bulgaria, Poland, Mexico, Chile and Uruguay; on a competitive basis, for the second year it calls for duos from professional groups and opens another competition for couples made up of art school students.

More than 300 people will receive the “Camagua Folk Dance” among which personalities and specialists stand out, as well as the children's company La Colmenita, the soloist María Victoria Rodríguez, the Faílde Orchestra and the Septeto Santiaguero.

The venues for the presentations will be the Avellaneda and Principal theaters, the plaza of this coliseum, the Plaza de los Trabajadores, and will extend to universities and several municipalities.

The Santa Cecilia Convention Center will host the theoretical sessions; and the Fidelio Ponce de León gallery makes its space available for the two-person exhibition Gray with black stitching by Ileana Sánchez and Joel Jover.

“We want to hold a popular festival before the end of the year, as a salute to the Triumph of the Revolution, and to the 510th anniversary of the founding of the Villa de Santa María del Puerto del Príncipe,” emphasized Fernando Medrado, after recognizing the integration of institutions and organizations and remember that the festival begins on Culture Worker's Day.

Translated by Linet Acuña Quilez