Carnaval à la Havane
1998 - Director : Santiago, Claude
Present in collection(s): Ministère de la Culture , CNC - Images de la culture
Carnaval à la Havane
1998 - Director : Santiago, Claude
Present in collection(s): Ministère de la Culture , CNC - Images de la culture
Carnaval à la Havane
The Havana carnival, like the Rio carnival, is an opportunity for Cubans to parade for several days and nights through the city streets while dancing. Less prestigious than that of Brazil, this festival nevertheless retains an essential value of social unification. Once a year, black, mixed race and white people get together to the beat of the “comparsa”. Claude Santiago reproduces here its energy and emotion.
The Cuban “comparsa”, equivalent to the Brazilian samba school, designates both the dance and the group of dancers performing it. People organise themselves by district, and each “comparsa” represents an episode from Cuban history or a small play. The colours and traditions derived from varied ethnic heritages merge and the differences fade to let the party begin. In the 18th century, these processions grouped slaves who paraded in various ceremonial outfits for Epiphany. Today, the festival takes on the appearance of an exorcism of the island’s slavery past. Enrique Nunez Rodriguez analyses this phenomenon with delicacy: “In periods of plenty as in hard times, the common denominator is joy. This people has always resisted difficulties.”
Santiago, Claude
Of Spanish origin, born in Algeria, with a degree in political sociology from the University of Paris VIII, he filmed his first images at the age of 18, in 1968: an exchange between Sartre and a group of students. He spent the next decade among hippies between California and Canada, where he discovered video art. He also writes a cultural column for the French daily Libération.
In San Francisco, he is artistic producer of the avant-garde club Savoy Tivoli. From California and New York, he mounted several experimental video projections for Europe (Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris, Palace, Bains Douches). From 86 to 89, he produced Picnic Tv, a magazine on video creation broadcast unencrypted on Canal +. He will direct around fifteen creative documentaries and experimental films, notably for Arte.
Carnaval à la Havane
Artistic direction / Conception : Claude Santiago
Production / Coproduction of the video work : Morgane production
Duration : 26'
Roots of Diversity in Contemporary Dance
Modern Dance and Its American Roots [1900-1930] From Free Dance to Modern Dance
At the dawn of the 20th century, in a rapidly changing West, a new dance appeared: Modern Dance. In the United States as in Europe, modern trends emerge simultaneously and intertwine in thier development. Let's dive into the beginnings of American modern dance!
CHRISTIAN & FRANÇOIS BEN AÏM – VITAL MOMENTUM
Vlovajobpru company
Western classical dance enters the modernity of the 20th century: The Ballets russes and the Ballets suédois
If the 19th century is that of romanticism, the entry into the new century is synonymous of modernity! It was a few decades later that it would be assigned, a posteriori, the name of “neo-classical”.
40 years of dance and music
Indian dances
Discover Indian dance through choreographic creations which unveil it, evoke it, revisit it or transform it!
The “Nouvelle Danse Française” of the 1980s
In France, at the beginning of the 1980s, a generation of young people took possession of the dancing body to sketch out their unique take on the world.
The national choreographic centres
James Carlès
les ballets C de la B and the aesthetic of reality
Meeting with literature
Collaboration between a choreographer and a writer can lead to the emergence of a large number of combinations. If sometimes the choreographer creates his dance around the work of an author, the writer can also choose dance as the subject of his text.
When reality breaks in
Dance and performance
Here is a sample of extracts illustrating burlesque figures in Performances.
Round dance
Presentation of the Round’s figure in choreography.
Do you mean Folklores?
Presentation of how choreographers are revisiting Folklore in contemporary creations.
Dance in Quebec: Untamed Bodies
First part of the Parcours about dance in Quebec, these extracts present how bodies are being used in a very physical way.