Homero's Journal:
October 1999 gave
dance demonstrations in Los Angeles and San
Francisco with Enio Cordoba's 'Let's Dance' company.
November 1999
guest teacher at the International Salsa
Dance Congress in Rotterdam in Holland.
December 1999 gave
master classes at the Brean Sands Pontins
Salsa Festival which attracts almost 2000 dancers, where
his Cabaret Show also performed.
2000 invited to
perform with the Afrocuban Company Musik
and Dansteater in Sweden and continued his series of workshops
in various different dance forms in Rome and Paris.
May 2001 Homero
hosted masterclasses and performed with his group in the Rome International Salsa Congress.
Also in 2001, Homero was invited to teach and perform at Ecole
Jean Claude Sither in Paris.
In 2001 Homero
was invited to teach and perform in Cyprus
to develop the nascent Cuban dance culture now becoming popular
there.
March 2002 Homero was joined by other internationally famous performers
and teachers to host a Salsa Cruise
from Miami to Puerto Rico, as well as further
invitations to Switzerland, Spain,
Paris, Malta and Cyprus.
2003, Homero and
his group performed in Denmark, Spain, France.
2006, Homero performed
and taught in workshops in Cyprus,
Spain, and Slovenia. |
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 Professional
training
Homero trained at the Escuela De Arte de la Provincia
de Havana. He began his professional dancing career with the Carnival
Group Charanga De Bejucal and subsequently the most famous carnival
group in Cuba, the Guaracheros De Regla,
directed by Umberto Medina.
In the 1980's he developed into cabaret work, dancing with some of the
best companies in Cuba, including Antonio Maria
Romeo, Los Kelellas, and Empresa Turarte, working in the Playas
Del Este and Playa Giron. He also directed a cabaret at the invitation
of the Canadian Tourist Board, 'Los T con E'.
In 1987 Homero joined Teatro America for
a Cuban television programme aimed at bringing the rich cultural inheritance
of dance rhythms to ordinary Cuban people; the programme, directed by
Gilberto Bosa and Guanarie Almuedo, provided a weekly presentation of
various aspects of Cuban dance i.e. Afro Cuban, rumba, Cuban popular dance,
ballet and contemporary. Homero specialised in the Rumba and Afro Cuban
presentations.
In 1990 Homero became choreographer to the Benny
Moré Cabaret, working with Feliz Mauricio and Gilberto Bosa.
From 1989 to 1993 he danced with the internationally acclaimed Cabaret
Tropicana.
In 1993 he became Director of Cabaret Groups working at the Playas Del
Este, including 'Cabaret Marazul', 'Cabaret Las
Terrazas', 'Cabaret Megano', and at the Hotel Itabo. Also in 1993
he was invited to accompany Silvia Pena, Tropicana singer soloist, in
a promotional tour to Santiago De Chile, sponsored by Cubana Aviacion.
Whilst pursuing his cabaret work Homero retained his involvement in Afro
Cuban and traditional dance, and worked with many leading Rumba groups,
including Papo Angarica, Luis Chacon, Grupo De Clave
y Guaguanco, Grupo De Chabalonga, Grupo De Ardo, amongst others. |
