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April Video 2010
FABULOUS RUEDA DE CASINO
Santiago, Cuba


While the group is not identified, this video features a troupe of young dancers from Santiago de Cuba performing a 5 min. rueda (circle) and suelta (line) choreography that includes rumba, son, orisha, and caberet moves, plus some original combinations. It is rare to find a Cuban dance video of this quality on Youtube.

Video shot by Ger Van den Berg
Thanks to Isaac Kos-Read for bringing this Youtube video to our attention.



March Video 2010
CASA BOOGALU HOUSE PARTY
Havana, Cuba


On our last trip to Havana we threw a big party and invited many friends and artists of Boogalu to celebrate our many years together. Boogalu's assistant in Havana, Lazaro "Chucho" Portuondo, made it all happen - arranging for the roast pig "lechon asado", having his family help in preparing the feast, DJing, and tending the bar. Highlights of the party include some amazing salsa casino dancing, wild antics of the dancers, and Chucho and his friends dancing to their favorite American funk music.





New Years Video 2009-2010
MAYRA CARIDAD VALDÉS
jazz singer - scat singing
Havana, Cuba


"I saw her sing in France and immediately called her the Cuban Ella Fitzgerald," said Bebo Valdés, the legendary pianist, from his home in Sweden, where he was talking about his daughter Mayra Caridad Valdés. "She was just a little girl when I left Cuba. What an incredible voice. I never taught her, but it was Chucho who did".

This video and much more is on the new Cuban music, arts, and culture website - Havana-Cultura.com. We discovered this site recently and was very impressed.

This is a deep and very well produced site that features young artists in Havana who are on the vanguard of contemporary creative expresstion in Cuba. The site has artists doing interviews along with video clips about their work be it music, visual arts, cinema, performings arts, design-architecture, and literature. The Havana-Cultura.com website is a project of Havana Club, the famous company in Cuba that produces rum products.

Boogalu has no affiliation with this website but salutes this work as the first high quality web based multimedia presentation of Cuban culture generated from inside Cuba.
check out Havana-Cultura.com




December Videos 2009
CUBA BAILA
The opening dance scene from a 1961 Cuban film directed by Julio Espinosa. A glimpse at what popular Cuban dance might have looked like in the early 1960's. The song played is a classic danzon called Tres Lindas Cubanas by Antonio María Romeo, adapted as a charanga. The film is an average drama about a Cuban couple and their difficulties putting on a big party to celebrate their daughter's fifteenth birthday.
CARNAVAL HAVANA 1962

Scenes from the documentary film "Primer Carnaval Socialista" by Alberto Roldan. As the film title says, this was the first carnaval after the Cuban Revolution of 1959.

CUBA BAILA



CARNAVAL HAVANA 1962



October Video 2009
Salsa Con Timba Dance Party
San Francsico Bay Area


The San Francisco Bay Area may have the biggest and most active Cuban music and dance community in the USA. On 9/27/09 Anejo Productions threw their 2nd annual Timba-Que dance party under the redwood
trees at "The Old Homestead" in Crockett. Boogalu was there filming




 



Comments (23)add comment

Wil McZeal de Los Angeles said:

"Smooth Elder Dancer"
This looks like such a fun event! I love the fact that it was outdoors and during the day! Wish I could have attended and wish the LA timba community would throw a similar gig!
October 14, 2009

Dennis RIchards said:

Damn.
You all ALWAYS have it going on down there in the bay area. Someone PLEASE help me get a job down there. HA HA HA I love Seattle but...................

Peace. See you all the next time I'm down there.
October 14, 2009 | url

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October 15, 2009

Cathy Serrano said:

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Wow what a Beautiful Party !
October 16, 2009

Veronika from Czech Republic said:

super music
It¨s perfect music.................!!!!!!!!!
November 20, 2009

paul cooper said:

just a person who loves african cuban music for years
the video was just beautiful the dancers were great i have to go to cuba one
day always love cuban for years
November 20, 2009 | url

Guile capablanca said:

That is thte way the cuban gozan (enjoy)
Cuba cuba cuba cuba......salsa is Cuba and Cuba is salsa.What a natural show on the outside,good music and excelent dancers.San Francisco Bay Area is ready to chalenge Miami,New York etc about afrocuban music and dancing(casino)
November 21, 2009

Maria said:

At the Homestead
Que rico! Cubans know how to live life. How can we replicate this in NJ? Casino es lo maximo en musica popular.
November 28, 2009

Mari Smoak said:

Re: CUBA BAILA 1960's
Oh My God!, What a AWESOME TIMES those years were!!... You guys have brought Tears to my Eyes, my lasts Carnavales en El Prado were in the early 60s, I came from Cuba 42 years ago I was just 14 and never been back, seeing these videos have brought back such a WONDERFUL MEMORIES and Nostalgia at the same time.
No! there is NO other place in the World that Carnavales and Cuban Music is danced with such a Flavor and Fervor and Joy like the Cubans of YesterYear's. It's in our Blood and embedded in our Bones, to the Point when I feel sad and down, I prep-up my computer filled with the Old Cuban Music of salsa, Boleros, Danzones y hasta El Organo Oriental I play so laud in my house that my Cuban neighbors go Crazy with my Music they Love iT!..
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!
For giving us at least little pieces of our past that Brings So MUCH to our Hearts today in the present!!!
KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK and the Findings of our Lost YesterYears!!!
MUAH!!!...MUAH!!!.... THANK YOU!!! :-))
December 09, 2009 | url

Maurice said:

MUSIC IN THE BEGINNING
hi there

looks like a very cool event! such a shame i missed it.

i love the song in the beginning: "se te ve la carita... y mira como se te nota, y mira como me provoca..." any chance there is anyone who can identify the band and name of the song???

thanks
maurice
December 12, 2009

Niobel Cintra said:

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Cubano i live in chico California help me to get out
December 24, 2009

Niobel Cintra said:

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December 24, 2009

magnus said:

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maurice: that would be una aventura loca with Manolín!
April 03, 2010

Usukuma said:

Your 2010 Boogalu house party in Havana
Can you fix this video. it crashes every time at the same spot. Thanks for posting.

cheers
Usukuma
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