Cuba. Una identità in movimento --- D'Arte Agency

Cuba

Una identità in movimento

D'Arte Agency

D'Arte Agency provides the world with the best of Cuban Culture in its various manifestations: music, ballet, plastic arts, theater, Cuban modern, contemporary and folklore dancing, circus variaty show, cultural advertising, literary science and documentation techniques, restoration museology, cultural heritage, among others.
Through D'Arte services, you may hire the best experts from the most prestigious cultural institutions existing in Cuba as well as freelance artists for rendering their services abroad. Our projects involve all aspects of the cultural know-how ranging from teaching of the Cuban Ballet School methods to the learning of how to dance salsa music.
And remember, D'Arte surely provides a meeting with the most authentic Cuban Culture.
PROJECTS
Methodology of the National Ballet School of the Republic of Cuba
The method of the National Ballet School is the result of over 30 years experience in teaching classical dance. The design and all the teaching and other kind of materials are branded "ENBC" which is a duly registered mark in the Republic of Cuba.
In addition to the ownership of the copyright of the Cuban Ballet School Method, the National Center of Schools of Arts (CNEART) has the technical expertise, the required teaching materials and the necessary capacity to carry out whatever it deems necessary to implement the aforementioned method in the country that requests so.
For the implementation of the Cuban Ballet School Method, the following resources are placed at your disposal:
Specialized texts, video-tapes and master discs; professors for training the teaching staff and evaluating the students; certificates to approved candidates and other actions required by the implementation of the method and mutually agreed upon by the Parties.
The foreign entity interested in the project will create the necessary technical and organizational infrastructure to apply such method by performing market studies and plans. It will be responsible for the reproduction of supplied materials in the required quantities and also for basic services such as air ticket, accommodation, hourly salary, medical assistance, transportation and travelling expenses for Cuban specialists involved in the implementation of the project.
The distribution of revenues in terms of registration, courses and tests will be agreed upon in a contract to be signed by the foreign entity and D'Arte Professional Cultural Services Agency, as the sole legal and financial representative of CNEART to the effect of the signing of contracts, legal advisory and financial management.
Methodology of the Teaching of Piano of the Republic of Cuba
The methodology of the teaching of piano in Cuba is sustained for more than 35 years of experience in the teaching of this musical instrument, having an eminently Cuban artistic pedagogy of grateful excellence as a result in the national and international environment.
The National Center of Schools of Arts (CNEART), besides the ownership of all the intellectual rights on the Method of the Teaching of the Piano, possesses all the conditions for the installation of the referred method in the country that requests it; you program, study plans, methodological indications, specialized texts and professors of grateful trajectory and talent to advise its installation, to qualify the educational personnel and to examine the students. Also, it puts the certified accreditations at your disposal for the approved candidates, as well as others that the installation demands of common agreement among the parts.
The foreign entity interested in the project will create the necessary technical and organizational infrastructure to apply such method by performing market studies and plans. It will be responsible for the reproduction of supplied materials in the required quantities and also for basic services such as air ticket, accommodation, hourly salary, medical assistance, transportation and traveling expenses for Cuban specialists involved in the implementation of the project.
The distribution of revenues in terms of registration, courses and tests will be agreed upon in a contract to be signed by the foreign entity and D'Arte Professional Cultural Services Agency, as the sole legal and financial representative of CNEART to the effect of the signing of contracts, legal advisory and financial management.
This project will allow to children and young with musical talent for the learning of the piano, to specialize in this instrument following the international limits without necessity of being absent of the country that he/she requests it.
International Courses
If you are interested in organizing courses on popular dancing or other artistic disciplines, true exponents of Cuban culture, the agency D'Arte, devoted to the promotion and marketing of Cuban culture professional services, gives you the chance.
Our agency is in the position of collaborating with you in the setting up of course in your country offering you the following options:
Cuban Popular Dancing Courses
For those in love with the rhythms and beats generated historically by the Caribbean warmth, reaching in Cuba an unequaled expression as a reflection of the peculiar mixture of razes and cultures, this offer will allow to enjoy and capture the rhythmic riches of traditional dancing styles such as: son, danzon, cha cha cha, mambo and salsa, by means of practice and theoretical teachings about their origins, history, creators and leading interpreters.
Duration: 2 months.
Hours: 20 hours/week (160 hours).
Delivered by a professor.
The duration of the course can be adjusted on request made by the interested party.

Dance, Folklore and Popular Dancing Course
The topics of study are the techniques of Cuban modern dance, elements of Cuban folklore and internationally-renowned Cuban popular dancing rhythms such as son, danzon, mambo, and salsa. The course will include both theoretical learning and practical training.
The course includes delivery of a didactic salsa video for each student.
Duration: 3 months.
Total of hours: 20 hours/week (240 hours).
Delivered by two professors.
(The duration of the course can be adjusted according to the interest of the students).

Cuban Percussion Workshop
An exclusive occasion to achieve a more dynamic knowledge of our popular rhythms and their essential characteristics, through the study of Cuban percussion, as well as the study of the historical and artistic values of Cuban music. It includes: percussion practical lessons (paila, congas, guiro, bongo, drums), and demonstration on the Cuban rhythms danzon, son, cha cha cha, mambo and salsa)
(The duration of the course can be adjusted according to the interest of the students).

Duration: 3 months.
Total of hours: 20 hours/week (240 hours).
Delivered by two professors.

D'Arte guarantees:
Professor(s).
Payment of the professor's salary.
Specialist to work con the organization of the course in the country for a period of 15 days.
High quality teaching program.
Salsa didactic video.
Accrediting certificate.

The foreign party must guarantee:
The proper conditions for the carrying out of the course (space, sound equipment, etc.).
A minimum of 20 students for the course.
To cover airfare, accommodation, mails, and medical assistance of the professor(s).
To cover airfare and accommodation for the specialist that will organize the course for a period of 15 days.
Payment of visas for the specialist and the professors.
Payment of registration fees to the agency in US dollars.

The professors that we put to your disposal have a long teaching career and a widely recognized prestige and talent in the different cultural-artistic disciplines included in the courses, apart from been graduates form highly recognized cultural institutions of our country.
The duration of the courses, as well as the distribution of teaching hours can be adjusted according to the interests of the institution.

WORKSHOP
An anthropological vision of the dancer's figure of Dance and Ballet
In the Ballet, the Dance and the Shows of Varieties and in some circus manifestations the human body is essential in the technical expression of the artists. This workshop explains the vision of the Kinesiology of these artistic manifestations as mechanical movements carried out by an alive physical structure that expresses independent biological necessities of this process. Given the importance of this science in the improvement of the teaching of the art the scientific tools are studied that quantify the biological changes of the figure of the students and the characteristics of the main external factors in the learning of the arts you would dance.
The addresses of this course can be professors of specialty of Ballet, Musical Dances Shows and of Circus, Teachers of Biological Sciences that work in art schools and of sports schools, professors of physical preparation and investigators of the anthropological sciences.
The course is constituted by three Modules whose thematic basic will be:
The studies of the Anthropology and the Kinesiology in the Scenic Arts.
Nutrition.
The teaching of the dance and the ballet in the dancer during their growth and normal human development.

It will be imparted by the Graduated Hamlet Betancourt León, Investigator of the Academy of Sciences of Cuba, Enclosed Instructor Professor of the University of the Havana, Investigator of the Department Investigations and Development. National Center of Schools of Art and Professor of Kinesiology. National school of Ballet of Cuba.
Workshops so important as the Cuba-Dance that offers the National Company of Contemporary Dance of Cuba and the FOLKCUBA that every year is carried out for the National Folkloric Group, these services can be requested through our Agency.
Both institutions the National Folkloric Group and the National Company of Contemporary Dance of Cuba represent the purified chore in the Dance in our country with 45 years of artistic and educational experience.
Requirements for the recruiting of the course
D'Arte Agency, as an entity that commercialize the technician-professionals services of the Cuban culture, offers the possibility to contract a specialist of high scientific level to impart the workshop "An anthropological Vision of the dancer's of Dance figure and Ballet", directed to professors of the specialties of Ballet, Dance, Musical Shows and Circus, of Biological Sciences of the art schools, Physical Preparation and Investigators of Anthropological Sciences.
The foreign entities interested in the referred recruiting whose technical requirements are annexed, will fulfil the following recruiting conditions:
It will assume the expenses in that the Professor incurs, relative to:
Feeding.
Lodging.
International air passages (going and return).
Migratory steps.
A medical insurance.
Pay for student registered to the D'Arte Agency, negotiable.

WORKSHOP OF FOLKLORIC DANCES, PERCUSSION AND SONG
FOLKCUBA
The study of our folkloric roots in its purest manifestations; the dance, the music and the song will be able to be enjoyed in a laboratory from 15 to 21 days.
Noted figures of the National Folkloric Group, Institution with more than 40 years of having been founded of the most genuine and popular tradition taken to the artistic, educational and methodological plane, they will be the professionals in charge of bringing near them to the alive world of the Cuban folklore.

The course consist of a panoramic of the Cuban culture that allows to the interested to know in the practice the rhythms, touches, the dance and the songs that accompany them.
Addresses
For Modules
Workshop of Song 1st. Level:
Fans.
Workshop of Song 2nd. Level:
Folkloric Dancers.
Singers.
Percussionists.
Actors.
Workshop of Percussion 1st. Level:
Fans.
Workshop of Percussion 2nd. Level:
Musicians.
Workshop of Dance 1st. Level:
Fans.
Workshop of Dance 2nd. Level:
Dancers.
Professors.
Choreographers.

Minimum and maxima of participants for Modules
Sing from 20 to 40 students.
Dances from 15 to 30 students.
Percussion from 4 to 8 students.

The students can enroll 2 modules, because they will be carried out in contrary session the shop of Dance to that of Percussion and Folkloric Song.
Content Module of Dances
1st. Level:
Popular Dances.
Santeria's Dances.
Conference about Cuban Culture.
2nd. Level:
Popular Dances.
Rumba.
Santeria's Dances.
Santeria's Songs.

Content Module of Percussion
1st. Level:
Rumba.
Conga.
Instruments (Drummer, tumbadoras, pans and keys).
Panorama of the Cuban Culture.
2nd. Level:
Batá Drums.
Shequeres, First, second, box.
Panorama of the Cuban Culture.

Content Module of Song
1st. Level:
Song of the popular dances.
Mimetic Rumbas.
Yambú and Guaguancó.
Santeria's Songs (Eleggua, Ogún, Yemayá, Oshún, Shangó).
Panorama of the Cuban Culture.
2nd. Level:
Santeria's Songs (Eleggua, Ogún, Yemayá, Oshun, Shango, Obbatalá).
Arará's Songs (Afrekete, Babalú).
Congas Songs.
French tomb's Songs.
Panorama of the Cuban Culture.

There is also the possibility of a technical attendance for a period of 3 to 6 months in which the professor will be able to make a study plan and a program with the manifestations that are more interesting for the contracting institution.
The Agency D'Arte guarantees
Professors of the National Folkloric Group.
Study plan and it programs of the subjects.
Accreditation Certified.
Migratory steps.

The Foreign part will guarantee

Condition for the realization of the course (local, sound, musical instruments).
International air passage, lodging, feeding, medical insurance.
Pay of the specialists' Visa.
Pay of the Course to the Agency in USD according to price agreed in the negotiation.

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP OF MODERN DANCES.
CUBADANZA
The modern dance in Cuba has its beginnings in the decade of the 60, it started with the support of countries of America, at present it possesses a technique of training based on the purest Cuban roots those that endow the dancer of corporal movements, where the use of the pelvic region and the wave of the torso among other elements conform the fundamental base of our Cuban technique.
Duration: 3 weeks, with 30 hours classes.
Subjects:
Techniques of Modern Dance.
Cuban Popular and Traditional Dances.
Choreographic Workshop.
Teaching Methodology of the Cuban Modern Dance.
Classic Ballet (optional subject).

The possibility of a Technical Attendance of 3, exists 6 to 12 months in which the professor will be able to make a study plan and a program with the manifestations that more they interest to the contracting Institution.
The Agency guarantees:
Professors of Contemporary dance of Cuba of such grateful professional experience as: Ángel Eduardo Veitia, Leonor Rumayor, Regisseur of the company, Luis Roblejo, Dulce María Vale Pumariega, Isidro Rolando Thondike experienced professors of technique of modern dance, Isabel Blanco as teacher of Methodology of the dance and choreographic Composition, Margarita Vilela and Ricardo Pedroso, professors of Folkloric Dance of the Company.
Study plan and it Programs of the subjects.
Certified Acreditativo.
Process in the Immigration Department.

The foreign part will guarantee:
Condition for the realization of the course (local, sound, recording).
International passage , lodging, feeding, medical insurance.
Payment of the specialists' Visa.
Payment of the Workshop to the Agency in USD, according to price agreed in the negotiation.

COURSE OF GOLDWORK
During 7 weeks you will be able to know the historical antecedents of the contemporary Cuban goldwork, to appreciate the functional and stylistic diversity of the Cuban works and to investigate the history of the goldwork of the Islamic World.
It will train you in the application of the basic techniques for the work of the Goldwork, developing abilities of artistic expression through the work with beautiful metals and precious stones, as well as to know the diverse decoration techniques: modeling, embossed, assembling and waste of the stones.
This course offers you the possibility to present in exhibition the objects and stones elaborated by the student during the workshop.
The Course of Goldwork will be imparted by the professor: Yaniel Rodríguez Benítez.
His works have been part of exhibitions organized by the Cuban Fund of Cultural Goods in countries like England, Colombia and Argentina.
He is member of the Cuban Association of Artisans Artists.
He has obtained important prizes: A Reward in VIII Biennial of Applied Arts "Domingo Ravenet", "Mention" in the VIII edition of FIART '2001, "Mention FIART-UNESCO" in the IX edition of FIART '2003.
The Agency D'Arte guarantees:
Professor.
Migratory steps.

The Foreign part will guarantee:

Condition for the realization of the course (local, materials, istruments).
International air passage, lodging, feeding, medical insurance.
Pay of the specialists' Visa.
Pay of the Course to the Agency in USD according to price agreed in the negotiation.