A Dance for the Planet

Last Thursday, Fundación La Tortuga held an event in Rolando Square, in front of the silent gaze of the Cajigal Theater, which is currently under restoration. The activity began with a recycling workshop given by Professor Manuel Yepez, an instructor dedicated to giving life to an endless number of objects made from recycled materials, accompanied on this occasion by Mayrelis Palacios, Yosetlyn Palomo, and Maigualida Suarez.

Last Thursday, Fundación La Tortuga held an event in Rolando Square, in front of the silent gaze of the Cajigal Theater, which is currently under restoration. The activity began with a recycling workshop given by Professor Manuel Yepez, an instructor dedicated to giving life to an endless number of objects made from recycled materials, accompanied on this occasion by Mayrelis Palacios, Yosetlyn Palomo and Maigualida Suarez.

Between scissors and plastics the curious children did not take their eyes off that material that once was a soft drink container, each child brought their material to work under the shade of the trees of the beloved square, and step by step they were making their little boxes of hearts according to the loving explanation of the instructor. With their little fingers they cut out and built this useful object that will be a reminder that in every container there is hidden a toy or other useful object and that the important thing is to recycle with a lot of creativity and imagination.

As soon as the night covered the Plaza Rolando, a white curtain took over the place and became a proscenium, with Nancy Marcano’s voice, who opened the stage representing Mother Earth, a show that clearly feels demanding; Jesus Bravo begins a performance with his contemporary dance and with an excellent interpretation breaks the space with flights of denunciation and reflection before the continuous threat that hovers over our trees, a dry trunk full of leaves with printed numbers connotes how the pragmatic technological world suffocates the natural one, the one who dances reflects the agony of a tree, which is that of a forest of our planet.

In a second act flows the body of a man, Robert Bracho, who demarcates spaces that signify a journey through the history of humanity, he dances transforming himself into elements; then a woman accompanies him in this transit, she is the dancer Linoska Ugas, energetic and impulsive she makes the space vibrate, together they demonstrate with great strength and admirable interpretation, while the background music echoes images of the planet, seen from a satellite that shows that today is the time to wake up, to act and give back to our Mother Earth what she has given us with so much love: life.

To close this event, the Zambuling Foundation offered three trees for peace with a loud mantra in the background, three trees that symbolize peace for all, from the hands of Patricia Catillo, were given to three people present who pledged to take care of them and make them grow. A few words from the vice-president of La Tortuga Foundation, Chelo Nogueira, closed the beautiful and heartfelt event.