Rumba: Expression of all things Cuban

After returning from a tour through Canada some members of the folkloric music and dance company Yoruba Andabo talked with CubaPLUS on their more recent artistic proposals.

The strength of ancestors gathers new energies with youth. That is Yoruba Andabo's motto. The artistic expressions of African slaves brought by Spanish colonizers to Cuba are revived in this company with the integration of new members together with the most modern contemporary musical tendencies.

Its director, Geovani del Pino, tells us about the union between the rebelliousness of the first years of age and the legacy of the Cuban culture fathers. Geovani: Rumba is not a dead rhythm and it will never be. The momentum given by youth to any genre is something people don't understand, but it is needed. Young people impose their fashion, energy, worries that get to both the young ones and old.

The company was born in the docks of Havana, when workers who were enthusiasts of the Yoruba culture created in 1961 the Guaguancó Marítimo Portuario project. What began with the stillness of the bay waters gained in unexpected vigor and today reached a professional level. It was not an easy jump to make.