The International Contemporary Dance Festival, Edanco will take place at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Santo Domingo. Performances will be 25 September to 7 October. Contemporary dance companies are coming from Japan, Germany, Canada, Switzerland, Colombia, Italy, Spain, El Salvador, Guadeloupe and Martinique. The event is being sponsored by the Ministry of Culture, the Centro Cultural de Espana and the Edanco Foundation. Edanco director Edmundo Poy says that this year they will be paying homage to Olga Espaillat, first ballerina of the country’s first Ballet Academy in the 1940s.
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