The Contemporary Dance of Cuba company (DCC), under the direction of Miguel Iglesias, began a new season today at the National Theater with the world premiere of Waves and Edges, by choreographer Olga Labovkina.

"In times of crisis, art is refuge and sustenance. Taking the stage today is also an act of faith in sensitivity, in collective intelligence, and in the possibility of understanding ourselves through movement," Iglesias expresses in a text included in the program notes.

The company also revived the work Consagración, which uses the original score of Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring in the version recorded by the New York Philharmonic under the direction of Leonard Bernstein (1958).

Once again, DCC reaffirms its dialogue with the most current trends in international contemporary dance; the piece does not seek to repeat the steps of the past, but rather to tension them: veils, movements of the torso, shoulders, and hips, together with the choral presence and the emerging individual, make up a choreography marked by solemnity, confrontation, and viscerality.

In Waves and Edges, Labovkina reflects on the human being amid the flows of external information and their psychic capacities.

"We live in an unstable era. Is drawing a line a loss of humanity or, on the contrary, an attempt to preserve it?" questions the Belarusian choreographer.

The performance has the support of maîtres Yoerlis Brunet, Luisa Santisteban, Claudia Iglesias, Yiliam Pacheco, and Tomás Guilarte, and will continue tomorrow at 5:00 p.m. local time at the Avellaneda Hall of the National Theater, located in Havana's Vedado district.