From the last performance at “Möllan” in Mölndal.
The participants from Adrianas Danshus had been preparing
many months for this show. It turned out to be a spectacular
performance and the audience where clearly surprised by the professional
level of the dancers!!
Coming up again this year December 18 same place at 15:00 and 17:00.
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Pure fun in a plastic globe floating around in a pool
Göteborgs Kulturkalas (Cultural party). One week each summer with a never-ending number of activities for all ages. Last summer.
My first trip to Cuba 1993 I lived with a family in the district of Luyano, Havana.
This was the so-called “período especial” and in practice it ment a decade of misery for the Cubans.
Mayari sat at the corner of Municipio and Melones trimming the hair of his dog Miringuita.
Of course I could not resist picking up my camera!
Seventeen years later I stumbled upon a page on Facebook “Solo gente de Luyano”
(Just for people from Luyano) The fantastic thing I realized a little later when I started to
contribute my photos (most of them almost forgotten and deep down in some old analog archive) to the group, is that the responsable person for the site was Reynier Perez.
Reynier was just a kid back in 93 and lived upstairs in the same house where I stayed and I had caught him in my pictures playing with the children of “my” family. (i´ll post some of this in the future)
Internet, Facebook can sometimes be a fantastic media to reconnect people. Many Cubans have left their country and are spread out all over the world. On “solo gente de Luyano” they can make contact with old friends and neighbors!
The additional information I get referring my photos from these comments in the Luyano page
increases the documentary value a lot. The picture of Mayari for instance no longer just represents an image of an odd character!
Listen to the following quotes (translated from original Spanish)
Yanliet Linares: Sitting outside of what used to be his house. An unforgettable personality from Luyano
El Lachy Pons: A personality from Luyano. He is dead now.. lived a block from my house
Claribel Alvarez Sosa: Mayari was well known? “look at me women, play with me, look here I am single now”. Fantastic personality, a skilled tailor and as you say Reynier he liked sports and he participated in competitions, he was strong
Armando Mandito Valdes: The old Mayary lived beside my house. Sometimes they came and emptied his house. It was filled to the ceiling of stuff that he found walking around. It could be of use to somebody . I lived close by. I moved to the states 1980, never saw him again. HE WAS A GOOD PERSON
Eduardo Somoza Rios: He used to whip me when we played chess, the day I beat him was our last match
Yohandra Ramos: He died some time ago, he lived near my house
Grettel Llana: My God whats he doing to the dog????
Grettel Llana: Looks like he wants to cut his tail..
Yanet Viamontes: Por dog!!
Reynier Perez : I can assure you that MAYARI never would cut the tail of the dog because it was his only friend he spoke to him and prepared food for both of them. The hands holding that scissors is hold by an excellent tailor.. a surgeon with his cloth
mayari, the revolution gave him everything ?????? (ironically)
Keyla Roymer Barrientos: mayari, everybody knows mayari, this is great!! What memory’s really this page is really good
It was a spectacular september day 3 years ago. Lisa got married to Bo
in the church of Hönö.
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Little boy working hard at the maize field.
Some decades ago I stayed a week in the Andean village of Huandoval in the province of Ancash, Peru.
It’s a small isolated place with no electricity and no telephone. You have to rely on shortwave radio for communication. In periods you can´t reach or leave the area because the road collapses in the rain!
A fantastic horseback ride excursion in the mountains with the shopkeeper of the village is a strong memory from that week!
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Always when I go to Havana I visit Luyanó. It´s the “barrio” where I stayed on my very first trip to the city 1993.
Eduardo is the grandfather of the children in the family I lived with.
He invites you a glass of his home-made wine, and starts telling his story.
It´s more or less the same theme every time.. the Cuban history, the liberation from the Spanish colonialism and of course the revolution.
Eduardo has lived that history since the beginning of the last century!
Siempre cuando voy para La Habana, paso por Luyanó. Es el barrio donde
me quedé en mi primer viaje a la ciudad.
Eduardo es el abuelo de los niños de la casa donde yo viví.
Te invita un vaso de vino de la casa, y empieza a relatar su historia.
Es mas o menos el mismo tema cada vez.. La historia Cubana, la liberación
del colonialismo Español y por supuesto la revolución.
Eduardo ha vivido esa historia desde el comienzo del siglo pasado.
The salsa dance routines can be complex, but with a bit of practice and perseverance
it will be a shining performance in the end!
Adrianas Danshus giving lessons at Liseberg Amusement park in Gothenburg.
There she sat in the car at the beach east of Havana.
I could not resist. Lots of tempting ingredients. The sun was low,
the girl was pretty and the car had all that pre revolutionary patina
that one need for a nice Cuban cliché.
-Do you mind a picture? I asked.
-No but you have to hurry up, my husband is coming back in a moment
and he is very jealous!
Not to many tourists find their way to the southwestern coastline of Dominican Republic!
Got a feeling that this group, does not belong to the ordinary “all-inclusive” category tourists.
Had a short friendly conversation with the man. Cant remember the US state he mentioned as their home!
some christian faith group.. Mennonites? Anybody has a clue?
By the way, we are not far from Paraíso (paradise) You´ll find it between La Cienaga and Enriquillo!
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Håkan Rönnblad 
