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Danys Perez Prades "La Mora"
Originally from Santiago de Cuba, Danys Perez "La Mora" is yet another great artist from the marvelous world of Afro-Cuban folklore. La Mora is one of the best interpreters of the forms of Afro-Cuban dance that are derived from the Yoruba, Congo, Carabali, Arara, and Dahomeyan cultures of West Africa. As a dance performer, teacher, dance ethnologist, and choreographer, La Mora has focused on the unique styles of her native region of "Oriente Province”, in Eastern Cuba. Oriente offers a particularly rich cultural heritage due to the introduction of Afro-Haitian influences to an already vibrant Afro-Cuban context. She excels in the interpretation of dances from this heritage including: Gaga, Vodu, Tajona, Haitian Bembe, Tumba Francesa, Carabali, as well as the popular dances Rumba, Comparsa (Conga), Chancletas (Cutaras), Haitian Merengue and Son Montuno, Son Urbano, and Casino. Danys Perez Prades "La Mora" is an international artist who offers a profound contribution not only to the dance world, but to the world of cultural studies as a whole. BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Danys Perez Prades "La Mora" was born in Santiago de Cuba where
she began At the age of 13 she began working as a guest of the national folkloric ballet "CUTUMBA", an opportunity that allowed her to participate in international festivals at 15 years old. Since her graduation as a Financial Media Technician at sixteen La Mora remained under contract with "CUTUMBA". At the same she joined the Centro de Superacion Arts School, where she studied the specialty of Afro Cuban-Folklore with international personalities like O’Farrell, Johann Garcia, Silvina Fabar, Lazaro Ross, Juan B. Castillo, and Ernesto Arminan. In this school she also studied Modern Technique with Eduardo Rivero Walker, and with first Dancers; Aristides and Mariano. In 1994 she was evaluated as Primera Bailarina and Primera Profesora by the National Dance Commission in Cuba, an organization whose roster includes such great exponents of Cuban Dance as Manolo Micler, the principal choreographer for the "Folklorico Nacional de Cuba" and Cristy Dominguez “Primera Bailarina Choreographer of the Ballet of National Cuban Television. La Mora taught in Cuba for international courses to students
from: Holland, New Zeeland, Canada, Germany, Scotland, and Japan.
She has been invited on her own to teach outside of Cuba since 1995
in; Italy, Spain, France, Canada and in the United
States. WORK in US and CANADA: 2007 2006 2005 2002 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 Website: www.afrocubaweb.com/danisperez.htm |
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