Havana, Cuba.-The company directed by star dancer Carlos Acosta will carry out a tribute performance today to the historical leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, to thank his constant support to the arts of the country.

Acosta Danza, name of the company, will perform at the Alicia Alonso Gran Teatro in Havana’s Garcia Lorca hall, from today to December 11.

The program includes choreographies such as ‘Hokiri’, by French Mickael Marso Riviere, which tackles life beyond death and the eternal life, in addition to ‘Derrumbe’, by Cuban Miguel Altunaga, about the end of a romantic relationship.

A significant moment of the performance will be the performance of ‘Tocororo Suite’, a version of the well-known show ‘Tocororo’, a Cuban fable by Acosta and released in that Havana theater in 2003, in front of an audience in which Fidel was present.

The company will also perform ‘Babbel 2.0’, by Catalan choreographer Maria Rovira. This is a work on the chaos of the world nowadays, in which cultures are merged and men do not communicate.

The work is based on the tower of Babel, in that humanity’s need to unite, to touch the sky, the distinguished choreographer told Prensa Latina in 1998 by the Generalitat de Catalunya with the National Dance Award.

According to Rovira, the world is experiencing convulsive moments and touching the issue of the lack of communication interested her because, although internet and other media connect us all, she believes that people on a personal level every day communicate less.

Rovira studied at the Merce Cunningham School, in the United States, and at the Maison de la Danse in Lyon, France, among other institutions.

Babbel 2.0 is not her first job on this Caribbean island because in the last the Havana International Ballet Festival created the single ‘Alas’ for the Cuban National Ballet’s Prima Ballerina, Viengsay Valdes, and has works within the repertoire of that company, one of them still very remembered.