Cuban Theater Digital Archive

Interview with Salvador Fernández

Outline

Childhood in the district of Jesús María, in Havana. Spanish origin family, related to the world of Cuban cigars.
Early education at the Colegio Lasalle
His participation in the cultural movement of the Sociedad Nuestro Tiempo, where he met Servando Cabrera. Thanks to Servando he starts working at Teatro Estudio.
He beggins studying Architecture at the University of Havana, but leave it after a few years.
Founder along with Maria Elena Molinet of the Conjunto Folklorico Nacional.
His experience also with Dumé group and the Conjunto Dramático Nacional
His first ballet, in 1964, was Exorcism, by Anna Leontieva
Spends a year in Czechoslovakia, studying.
Fernando Alonso invites him to work permanently in the National Ballet of Cuba, where he still works.
Foundation of ENA, where he taught. The firsts years.
Relationship with Alicia Alonso, Servando Cabrera, Maria Elena Molinet
Special features of the Ballet Tarde en la siesta (1973)
Process of creating a ballet, creativity from material scarcity
Film experience with Tomas Gutierrez Alea
His passions: cinema

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