In the context of the President's State Visit to Cuba, he visited the National School of Modern Dance.
The school is part of a set of five schools that make up the Cuban National Schools of Arts, originally imagined by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara in 1961, and is housed in buildings that belonged to the former Havana Country Club golf course, built between 1960 and 1965 by famous Cuban architect Ricardo Porro.
The Escuela Nacional de Danza is part of a broader network of arts schools across the country that provide free education focused of various aspects of the arts for Cuban students from aged nine to university level, and specialise in disciplines as diverse as visual arts, music, ballet, contemporary and folkloric dance and circus performance.
The Escuela Nacional de Danza has a particular focus on contemporary and Cuban dance.
The President witnessed a workshop underway organised by Culture Ireland involving Irish performers and Cubans students of the school.
