The seventh Meeting of Young Choreographers, sponsored by the Hermanos Saiz Association (AHS) together with the company Danza Libre de Guantánamo, to stimulate the search and professional dialogue around the demonstration, will take place from May 27 to 30, for the first time online.

Under the thematic axis Choreography and its expression in times of pandemic, the event invites national and foreign dance groups, as well as young choreographers, dancers, performers, stage directors and independent researchers of any nationality under 35 years of age, who through The networks will be added to the activities on the Facebook page of the AHS Guantanamera and the company managing the initiative.

Elio Orestes Reyna, director of Danza Libre, informed the press that to date artists from Mexico, the United States and the Atabaques company from Colombia have confirmed their attendance; while from Cuba, Danza Unidos, by Artemisa; Retazos y Generador, from Havana; the National Folkloric; Danza Espiral, from Matanzas in addition to the local ensembles Ballet Folklórico Babúl, Danza Fragmentada and the Medulla project.

He explained that for this edition three presentation modalities were proposed: the recording or video capture of a dance presentation at the exact moment in which it is executed; promotional (capsules, advertising, trailers) used to publicize the work of a dancer or group; and video-dance, as a more experimental way of conceiving, producing and appreciating art, appealing to new languages ​​in the dance and technological area.

The Meeting will be honored with the presence of specialists such as the dancer and audiovisual producer Guillermo Kerton; the Colombian choreographer Wilfram Barrios; the master's degree Marilyn Garbey, professor at the Higher Institute of Art and professor Mercedes Borges Bartutis, from the National Council of Performing Arts, who will be in charge of the main theoretical conferences.

There will also be practical workshops, led by teachers Yaneisi Chibás and Ladislao Navarro, from the Upper Cuban East.

The event, which will be dedicated to the 35 years of the AHS, aims to establish itself as a platform for debate and criticism about the new strategies that dancers have sought to reach audiences and stay active from home, exploiting existing tools and possibilities for the interpretation