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Havana Queens Dance Company has participated in multiple audiovisual productions and has won in Cuba the Lucas MTV awards of the year 2012, 2013 and 2014 in categories such as Most Popular Video, Best Choreographic Video and Best Video of the Year. In 2015 she was nominated by LEA (Live Entertainment Award) for Best Show of 2015 in Germany with the show “Havana Night”. It was Enrique Almirante 2017 Award as the best Variety Show awarded by the Caricat Representation Agency.

At this time they are presented every day at the “Casa Miglis” Restaurant, located at Calle Lealtad # 120 between Animas y Virtudes, Centro Habana; with the show “Bus stop to Party”.

HISTORY

Havana Queens company was founded on April 2, 2012 by Rosario Garcia (general director, choreographer and principal dancer) and Patrick Hofer (general producer). From the beginning, the dance group caught the attention of several filmmakers who used the talent of the Cuban group to various video clips. Among the most notable directors, and revealing the company in the media, we find the renowned Cuban filmmaker Ian Padron, winning major awards inside and outside Cuba with his film Habanastation, with him, the company participated in the video clip, seamstress, made for Los Van Van, one of the most famous orchestras of Cuban popular music. This video was winner of the Lucas Awards in Cuba, as the most popular video of 2012. Also in this year takes place in Cuba the show, Wanderings of Women, which was the first work of the company, which had important choreographers the country as Osnel Delgado, Maysabel Pintado, among others, and with playwright Noel Bonilla.

 

In 2013 and 2014 the company continues falling to the Cuban public and performs other video clips, such as guilt, along with the duo Buena Fe, led again by Ian Padron, getting more than seven nominations Lucas Awards and being winning several , including for Best Choreography Video. This enhances it in all areas and places to public view as a young and valuable company of the Cuban scene. also takes place in the capital, presenting a diverse program, joining several art forms of music and dance, with renowned guests Cuban musicians such as Osamu Menendez, the duo Elas, Ernesto Blanco, Israel Rojas, among others, wide acceptance of viewers. Another filmmaker chooses as visuality of your videos to the company, in this case we speak of Joseph Ross, with Bruges and Dance Crazy Videos, with the participation of the vocal group Sexto Sentido, also nominated for Best Video Choreography and was winner in Bruges for Best Visual Effects, pop electronic house and art direction 2013. While in 2014, they return again to participate with the group Buena Fe, under the direction of Ian Padrón in the video, it is thrown to kill, obtaining the award for Best Video of the year.

 

In 2015, he made his first international tour to Switzerland (Zurich), appearing in the Mag Music Hall, with the participation of 32 dancers and 10 musicians under the artistic and choreographic direction of Rosario Garcia in the work Dance is love, love is dance, which wastes energy and virtuosity by all its members, won rave reviews by the media and highlighting the company internationally. After this tour, and in Cuba, the Bridge show ranging from the traditional to the modern post, which was presented in the most important theaters in the capital and in different nightclubs of it is created. In November dancers to Germany move with the show Havana Nights, dinner show, along with the orchestra Dangeris Alvarez and his group, and the National Circus of Cuba, under the choreographic direction of Rosario Garcia and the overall production of Agenda – Shalva production and Beniashvili.Este show was nominated for LEA (Live Entertainment Amard) Best Show of 2015 in Germany. In March 2016, he traveled to Europe destined to cruise Victoria, presenting four different shows with the National Circus of Cuba, between the ports of Estonia (Tallinn) and Sweden (Stockholm), which came with great waste of cubanía in each of the shows, with the approval of all the audience. Thus, the company continues to participate in nightly shows and in the preparation of foreign proposals, highlighting more than ever in the Cuban cultural sphere.

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