Both expressions, declared by UNESCO in 2016 and 2018 respectively, Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, were merged for these days in master classes of Mora with groups such as Panama Dances Today, directed by the teacher Edgardo Hidalgo.
In the most recent of these meetings at the Academia de Artes y Danzas Cristina Carrillo, which was attended by the ambassador of Cuba to the isthmus, Victor Cairo, the also dancer and choreographer said that they expect to have representatives of the canary nation in the 17th edition of the Timbalaye Festival, which will take place from August 25 to 31.
This year, he said, the appointment will be dedicated to the voice of the congos in the rumba, hence my presence in Panama as a reference country in the genre.
Similar routes have already made their way into Italy and Mexico, he pointed out, always hand in hand with solidarity and what unites us, culture , music, the ancestral.
In statements to Prensa Latina, he added that in Panama he also exchanged with researchers such as Guillermo Castro and Mario García, was invited to tributes to iconic figures of the Congo culture and in the City of Knowledge, in this capital, was also welcomed by the project “Living in the neighborhoods”.
Mora emphasized that his project relies on solidarity from the culture and its spirit of resistance, in the middle of a turbulent world in which nations like yours face an economic war that involves the blockade of more than 65 years imposed by the United States.
For his part, Hidalgo highlighted the opportunity to show the dance and Congo culture, which in essence, recalls the rebellion of the black slave towards the Spanish oppression in times of the colony in the Panamanian Caribbean, those rites of burlesque tone, but that are carried out with joy.
The program of the festival includes dance classes, editorial presentations, concerts, live performances, visits to museums and characteristic places, seminars and theoretical meetings, that involve all generations with a particular focus on the synergy between the various arts and rumba.
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