The 2013 NC Latin American Film Festival presents:

La Salsa Cubana

(Joseph Johnson & Sarita Streng, 2011, 80 min, Cuba, Spanish w/ English subtitles, Color, DVD).

--Introduced by Andrea Woods, Dance Program. Duke

A dance group from the outskirts of Havana strives to win the Cuban national dance competition. The group comes from the Guanabacoa neighborhood and their passion is Cuban salsa. Along with the group's journey, we hear about the fabulous Cuban music, the ins and outs of the dancers' personal lives, and the history of the dance as told by old school dancers who were there when it started. This is an authentic and rare view of Cuba today and the dancing that lifts the national spirit.

Cost: Free and open to the public

Sponsors: UNC-Duke Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Program in Dance, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), and the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI)