Events

September 13, 2023, Old Havana – Interactive performance.

General direction and artistic direction: Erika Ivacson

Choreography: Aymara Vila
Production: Daniel Arévalo
Actors: Adlih Fernández, Adriana Migueles Rodríguez, Alexander Barrero Vaillant, Daniela Gascón Ramírez, Ernesto Domenech, Jennifer Torres Roque, Jessica Torres Roque, Leonardo Romero Negrón, Lianka Real Spech, Marian Hernández Manuz, Marla Almaguer, Yanela Lázara Rosabal, Yaniry Fariñas García, Amelia Domenech. 

Three presentations were made with the DAB project and each had its own characteristic, adapting to a different space but maintaining its own content and expressive power. The third presentation was held in honor of the 10th anniversary of the P. Félix Varela Institute. The artistic presentation starts with an interactive installation involving professional artists, young people, and also the audience. The DAB Project, through the act of creation, is a testimony of mutual growth and the power of art to reveal who we are and who we can become. Art is a human potential that through every movement, every word, and every brushstroke brings us closer to our essence.

 30 June 2023, Cuba – Interactive Performance.

General direction and artistic direction: Erika Ivacson.

Choreography direction: Aymara Vila
Projection mapping:: Roberto Guerra
Photographer/recording: Eloy Rodríguez
Actors: Adlih Fernández, Adriana Migueles Rodríguez, Alexander Barrero Vaillant, Daniela Gascón Ramírez, Ernesto Domenech, Jennifer Torres Roque, Jessica Torres Roque, Leonardo Romero Negrón, Lianka Real Spech, Marian Hernández Manuz, Marla Almaguer, Yanela Lázara Rosabal, Yaniry Fariñas García 

In collaboration: Instituto E.E.P.Félix Varela, Ludwig Foundation in Cuba.

The presentation of the performance took place during the International Congress, with the theme: ‘The human being between new technologies and transcendence for a very human’, organised by the Instituto E.E.P. Félix Varela together with the Catholic University of Sacro Cuore in Milan, Italy. The performance not only captures creativity in action; it is a testimony to mutual growth and the power of art to reveal who we are and who we can become.  Art serves as a master key to unlock human potential, in an environment where every movement, every word and every brushstroke brings us closer to our essence.

HAVANA: 17 December 2022, Cuba
POST DATE – Theatrical performance.

Managing Director: Erika Ivacson
Artistic direction: Arnaldo Galban
Written text: Shabely Bottle of Charity in collaboration with Arnaldo Galban
Theme development: Fr. Ariel Suárez, Ernesto Domenech, Wendy Pérez Bereijo
Musicians: Adrian Jesús Cabrera Biblonia, Vilmarys Rodríguez
Graphics: Wendy Pérez Bereijo, Veronika Breuer
Photographers: Veronika Breuer, Eloy Rodríguez
Set Design: Audrey Alfonso Morell, Cynthia Deus Fegundo
Actors: Lilibel Pérez Chirolde, Marla Almaguer Quiñones, Jorge Carlos Carrión Escudero, Juan Leandro Azcuy, Gen Torres Roque, Jessica Torres Roque, César Cardoso Moreno.
Production and recording: Daniel Arévalo

Wendy Pérez Bereijo’s description of the creative process: ‘Post-Data was a journey of acceptance. All of us who have been immersed in this process have understood, in a concrete practice, what it means to feel a naked person, to experience pain and to see the vulnerabilities of the other. This helped me to understand that we need to welcome the Other with a capital “Other” (his or her history, culture, body and, most importantly, relationships). This journey was embodied in concrete stories, in reflective debates, in meetings with friends, in tears and hugs. All this represented a vivid process of creating art, which materialised as a unity in a play. It may be said that it was not perfect, nor the best of its kind, but one thing is certain, it was experienced by us as the best work in the world.”

HAVANA: 13 September 2022, Cuba
Graduation – Awarding of diploma certificates: In_To_Wards Beauty.
Fr. Félix Varela Institute of Ecclesiastical Studies

Final moment of the course held in collaboration with the Instituto de Estudios P. Félix Varela. Recognition of the project at the Institute as a diploma course opened a collaboration that made it possible to include the project in the academic programme.

HAVANA: 21 May 2022, Cuba
Presentation of the book – The Creative Passion of Fernando Muraca.

Collaborators: DAB Project, Fr. Felix Varela Cultural Centre.

The Spanish language edition of the book, ‘La pasión creativa’, is presented for the first time in Havana, Cuba, at the Centro Cultural P. Félix Varela.
The Spanish version arose from the relationship between the author and Cuban actor Arnaldo Galban, who, on meeting him, expressed his pleasure and desire that it be translated into Spanish so that it could be read in Cuba and by all Spanish-speaking people.
“In this book, the author wants to convey an approach based on relationship. Who is the artist who embraces the idea of reciprocity and what does he do to control the emotional storm that is generated by shaping matter with his hands? What happens if, while working, you manage to establish a close dialogue with others that reciprocates with the warmth of friendship?

HAVANA: 20 May 2022, Cuba
REBORN – Birth of sensibility – Artistic presentation.
Fr. Felix Varela Cultural Centre.

Contributors: George Céspedes, Arnaldo Galban, Daniel Arévalo, Fernando Muraca, Antonio María Baggio, Gianluca Falconi, Annia Martinez, Darío García Luzón, and the 25 students of the course ‘In and through BEAUTY’ realised in collaboration with the Instituto Ecclesiastico P. Felix Varella.

The presentation was the conclusion of a three-month course sharing with experts and professional artists, on existential themes: identity, relationship with diversity, social commitment, emigration, awareness to build a better future. All in a complete fusion of various artistic expressions such as installation, performance, theatre and dance.

MANILA: 7 – 9 July 2018, Philippines
ExpLo – Journey of Life – Interactive exhibition
World Trade Centre underground Manila

Contributors: Antonio Maria Baggio, Gianluca Falconi, Francesco Baita, Maria Vieira Rosa, Jean-Paul Carradori, Francesco Carradori, Antonella Dancelab, Jena Espelita, Jonah Jose Espelita, Joanna Cariaso Gacayan, Manny Gacayan, Maika Napud, alumni Batch 113 De La Salle College of St. Benilde, Creative Synergy Inc. Manila, Steady Art Project, Dalma Timár, Michel Vandeleene, Alexander Simoen, Marco Lupi, Eve Henretty.
ExpLo, took place at the World Trade Center Metro Manila, as part of the central event of the Focolare Youth Festival, “Genfest” in Manila, Philippines, with 6,000 participants from five continents.
Beyond all borders was the motto. The content of the exhibition Journey of Life enabled the development of its universality centred on fraternity.

CASTELGANDOLFO:17 – 20 November 2016, Italy
50th Movement GEN2 – Interdisciplinary interactive exhibition.

Contributors: Francesco Baita, Laura Torelli and a group of young people.

The exhibition was framed by the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Gen Movement: the “new generation” of the Focolare Movement.
Trying to contextualise in today’s reality, the experiences lived in these 50 years at all latitudes, through art.