Cuban Dances – A musical roadtrip with Sarah Willis

Synopsis

After the brilliant success of her “Mozart y Mambo” project, Sarah Willis is returning to Cuba. This time the Berlin Philharmonic hornist sets out together with the “Havana Lyceum Orchestra” on a musical road trip to showcase the traditional Cuban music, bringing viewers and listeners into even more intense and lively contact with its roots and traditions. With them, the musicians bring a very special commissioned work: Sarah Willis has commissioned six young Cuban composers to compose a “Cuban Dance Suite” in six movements – for strings, Cuban percussion and solo horn in a fresh and modern adaption of traditional Cuban dances: Son, Danzón, Guaguanco, Cha-Cha, Bolero and Changüi. Each movements of the dance suite is premiered at the place it originated. The result is a composition in six movements that simultaneously draws a map of Cuba and its history. The “Cuban Dance Suite” not only provides the musical thread to the film, but also the road map for Cuba and its musical heritage.

Additional Info

• No: A05551609
• Production year: 2022
• Run time: 00:45:00
• Director: A film by Magdalena Zięba-Schwind
• Producers: 3B-Produktion, UNITEL, ZDF, ARTE, Alpha Classics, Goethe Institut, Göhde Foundation
• Format: HDTV 16:9