Cuba | Culture of Arts in Havana
Trip Availability: OPEN
National Circus School
Tour Sponsor: Cuban Arts Match
Your Tour Leader, Suki John PhD, has three decades of experience in the studios, schools, and theaters of Cuba, working extensively with artists, professors, writers and performers across the island. She is a passionate advocate for Cuban culture who shares an inside look at the ways Cuban artists live and work. Suki has built long-standing cultural exchanges with individual artists and art institutions such as Ballet Nacional de Cuba, the national schools of art (La ENA and El ISA), Compañia Narciso Medina, Danza Espiral, and Danza Contemporánea de Cuba. Her acclaimed book, Contemporary Dance in Cuba: Técnica Cubana as Revolutionary Movement, is a personal and scholarly account of Cuban dance and culture.
Students at the Matanzas School Of The Arts
This journey offers you a unique opportunity to gain a first hand experience of Cuban culture, music and dance and life, We are confident you will come away with a deep understanding of the complexities and wonders within Cuba; its world recognized dance, music, and visual art; education and health systems; and current trends in Cuba’s tourism industry as we experience together the beauty of the island’s art and cultural heritage sites. Because travel to Cuba is complex, and those of us that reside and work in the US are subject to US laws and jurisdiction, it is important to fully explain your legal rights, and walk you through carefully how we will legally travel to Cuba together on this people to people tour. However this group is also open for professionals (educators, artists, and entrepreneurs) and others that qualify under a general license, like writers and journalists.
Tour Prices : Hotel Nacional: $5,510 (single supplement $750) | Casa Particular: $3,216 (single supplement $310)
Trip Itinerary (Subject to Change)
