CubaCaribe festival in S.F. kicks off with the immigration-themed ‘Mouth of the Shark’ making its debut.
The San Francisco-based Alayo Dance Company will perform a refugee-themed work “Mouth of the Shark” as part of the CubaCaribe festival.If you need a shot in the arm to revive your dance taste buds, the 17th annual CubaCaribe Festival of Dance and Music in the next two weekends may be just what you are looking for.
Ramón Ramos Alayo, artistic director and choreographer of at Alayo Dance Company, first came to San Francisco as a guest teacher of Cuban dance in 1996. A year later he moved from Cuba to the Bay Area permanently. my life”, he explains. “I had a grant to create a piece on Cuban dancers. I went to Cuba at the beginning of COVID in 2020. The people had so many economic problems. They couldn’t make any money. They couldn’t go out and buy things.”
“Nobody could leave their houses, so I had to make the piece in hiding,” he says. It was a tricky proposition getting the dancers together secretly. They completed the piece in two weeks, then it was recorded by cinematographer/filmmaker
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