Journey with NovelaCuba:

An emblematic institution of Cuba, the Martí Theater, opened under the name of Irijoa, reached a great popularity thanks to its Cuban comedy plays; its central location, only a few meters from the National Capitol of Havana; and its technological and design solutions from the end of 19th century. It was inaugurated on June 8th, […]

The company of contemporary dance Retazos was founded in 1987 by a Chilean dancer and professor, Isabel Bustos (National Prize of Dance, 2011), and it stands a genuine expression of the fusion of vary artistic manifestations. Today it is a sort of laboratory of ideas, of encounters between different artists; not only from the dance, […]

Looking for originality, founding something new to say in dance, have been the way that the needle of the artistic compass of Lizt Alfonso Dance Cuba  have marked since its beginnings. Of course, guarded always by something fundamental in life that permits to get results: talent and discipline, base of any success… Another characteristic of […]

The charismatic singer Ivette Cepeda, in each concert, unleashes enthusiasm, attracts love, travels by several paths of the song and holds us by the hand, in her particular way, through those visited places of passion that she knows perfectly. She offers some unforgettable instants with the music, her voice, and her limitless interpretation that is […]

In the panorama of the Cuban music, the Camerata Romeu is a very original group. It was founded by Zenayda Romeu toward 1993, under the auspices of the Pablo Milanés Foundation. It was the first feminine string orchestra in Latin America and the only one in its genre, supported on a good repertory and stage […]

The Spanish Ballet of Cuba was founded toward 1987 by the prima ballerina assoluta and director of the National Ballet of Cuba, Alicia Alonso. At the beginning, it was baptized as Group of Spanish Dances of the Great Theater of Havana, later on the name would change to Spanish Ballet of Havana, and then, it […]

A big dream come true: the creation of a classical ballet company on a small Caribbean island is celebrated every year on October 28th. The calendar travels backwards, it stops on this day of the tenth month of the year 1948… and the memory emerges: Alicia, Fernando and Alberto Alonso, the trilogy of the convinced […]

Alberto Lescay (Santiago de Cuba, 1950), is a contemporary Cuban creator who has authenticated the language of forms and colors. To describe him it is necessary to highlight, first of all, the autochthonous source of his art, that threads and acquires personal sense in the sculptor, painter and draftsman. Lescay is the creator, among many […]

Alicia Leal (Sancti Spiritus, 1957), painter, draftswoman, ceramist, and photographer, in her more than three decades of irrepressible work between forms and colors, has managed to make her works represent a feeling, a glance to the purely Cuban-Caribbean because they are open doors to us in a pictorial dimension; and she has achieved it through […]

Luis Enrique Camejo was born in 1971, in Pinar del Rio. Between the years 1983 and 1996, he studied at the School of Arts in his native city, the National School of Art (ENA), and the Superior Institute of Art (ISA). The works of this artist could be described in numerous different words. His creativity, […]