Cuban Jazz Dancers

Two seniors talking3

It´s not easy but not difficult either!

Alicia and her husband Alejandro

Alicia and her husband Alejandro coming by motorbike

Jazzpainting on the Wall of the House

Jazzpainting on the Wall of the House

Alicia Dancing with Alejandro

Alicia Dancing with Alejandro

Alicia Dancing at UNEAC

Jazz Dancers, Havana, Cuba

Julian is pointing at photo of Dizzy Gillespie

Julian pointing at photo of Dizzy Gillespie who once visited the pena!

Alicia and the Artist

Alicia and the Artist

Stepper Angelo Montes

Stepper Angelo Montes

DJ Williams

DJ Williams, son of the owner of the pena; There are some young people too.

Alicia and the two White Hats

Artist dancing in front of his painting of Dizzy Gillespie

Artist dancing in front of his painting of Dizzy Gillespie

Lazaro and his Wife Noemi

looking into the camera; only faces

Picasso

They call him Picasso. He is one of the Cuban cousins of Picasso!!!

Another excellent singer

Smoking Cuban Peso Cigar

Smoking Cuban Peso Cigar

Wild Party in the Pena

Wild Party in the Pena

Young People love to come as well. And there is not just Jazz. They dance to Salsa, Jazz,

Alicia calling her friends

Alicia calling her friends: Vamos bailar!

Miles Davis

Miles Davis is Ramiro´s favourite.

Lazaro looking through the old Vinyls

Lazaro and Ramiro watching the old movies.

Most of them learnt how to dance Jazz by watching the old American movies.

Lazaro visiting Ramiro

Lazaro is coming

Chilling on the veranda before dancing

House Owner Portrait

House Owner smoking cigarette

House wife

House owner and Noemi preparing some salad.

Lazaro is the barkeeper

This group of  mostly black Havana seniors met when they where young in the 1940´s. They learnt how to dance to Jazz music from US movies.  After the Revolution they were discriminated as US-friendly because of their love to Jazz.
They had to stop. Today they found each other again and they maintain their vitality.  As they can´t afford to dance in bars as  they used to, they dance in someone´s home, their pena. Special thanks to Lazaro who showed me around. I love these people. They integrated me and I even danced with them to the Jazz music. But it is not easy, it´s very tricky.