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Minister of Culture Meets Dance Schools and Company Directors to Discuss Plans for New Schools<\/STRONG> D<\/SPAN>irectors of dance and ballet schools held a meeting with Minister of Culture, Jos\u00e9 Antonio Rodr\u00edguez, in which they discussed the need to work for better national expression in dance.<\/P> \u201cSince time immemorial, culture is less and less appreciated. With us, it is the only thing we have to be competitive. Nothing has more value than what is ours and no one can value it more than we can.\u201d<\/P> Minister Rodr\u00edguez, since he assumed the post of Minister of Culture, has been seeking to promote an artistic expression that resonates with Dominicans, whether classical or popular, he explained to the dance and ballet teachers at the meeting. His essential suggestion, he said, would be to work to \u201crender value to Dominican culture.\u201d.<\/P> Placing a high value on the national culture is one of the pillars of President Danilo Medina\u2019s government program, he said, as well as inspiring the creative work of artists. The meeting with members of the dance and ballet academies from around the country took place in the Ram\u00f3n Oviedo art gallery.<\/P> \u201cSince time immemorial, culture is less and less appreciated. With us, it is the only thing we have to be competitive. Nothing has more value than what is ours and no one can value it more than we can.\u201d<\/P> He spoke about the need to wake up and about being competitive and creating, soon, a repertory \u201cto appreciate what we are and what we have as a people.\u201d<\/P> He stressed the importance of preserving cultural elements and values such as the Chuinerosof Ban\u00ed and the SonerosofBorojol, just to mention two cases that are losing what they have cultivated over the years.<\/P> He insisted that it requires value and appreciation of the culture of dance and that it should be done in a monolithic way. He stressed that what unites people is Dominican culture, which belongs to everyone.<\/P> Also speaking at the meeting was the teacher, Carmen Heredia de Guerrero, who was in favor of the idea of elevating what is Dominican without leaving out the classical. On the other hand, Mari Lois Ventura said it was urgent to create the Municipal Balletof Santiago and to prepare pianists to play for dance in as well as to organize the dancing in a general way.<\/P> Patricia Ascuasiatisuggested that there should be general education in the area of dance, and a method for creating marketing structures for Dominican artwork. She said there should be registration and conservation of the repertories and a division in the schools for popular dance and for learning techniques from teachers at the schools.<\/P> Eduardo Villanueva added that it is necessary to form a repertory from national music themes due to the fact that there is no archive or register for this.<\/P> M\u00f3nica Despradeladded that it is necessary to collate and organize dance repertories in order to strengthen and replicate dance programs, making sure that the natural resources are credited with being original and Dominican.<\/P> Some of the others who spoke at the meeting were MarianelaBoan, Maril\u00edn Gallardo and Ninoska Vel\u00e1squez<\/P> Minister of Culture Meets Dance Schools and Company Directors to Discuss Plans for New SchoolsSanto Domingo, Dominican Republic 10\/6\/2012 Directors of dance and ballet schools held a meeting with Minister of Culture, Jos\u00e9 Antonio Rodr\u00edguez, in which they discussed the need to work for better national expression in dance. \u201cSince time immemorial, culture is less … Continue reading “Minister of Culture Meets Dance Schools and Company Directors to Discuss Plans for New Schools”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5923"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 10\/6\/2012<\/STRONG><\/STRONG><\/P>
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The Minister of Culture meets with members of the dance and ballet schools<\/P>
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The Minister of Culture and directors of dance companies from around the country<\/P>
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