Ariguanabo River

does dreaming of this bring good luck?

Interestingly, most of the stories and mentions of this river online are not in Santiago de las Vegas, they're in the town next door, San Antonio de los Baños. 

Curiously, this town is known for its International Museum of Humor. coincidence?

~Ilanna

Ibrahim Ferrer (Buena Vista Social Club)- Bruca Maniguá

Rum Rum Rum!

 

 Apparently the original Havana Club Mojito Recipe
(we should make some...)

1 teaspoon powdered sugar
Juice from 1 lime (2 ounces)
4 mint leaves
1 sprig of mint
Havana Club white Rum (2 ounces)
2 ounces club soda

Place the mint leaves into a long mojito glass and squeeze the juice from a cut lime over it. You'll want about two ounces of lime juice, so it may not require all of the juice from a single lime.

Add the powdered sugar, then gently muddle the mint into the lime juice and sugar. Add ice (preferably crushed) then add the rum and stir, and top off with the club soda . Garnish with a mint sprig, and then DRANNNKKK ITTT!!!

Lengthy, but a lot of nice pictures and maybe some interesting history of EL RON
I didn't read it all, but it's fun to just click through and skim
http://www.therumelier.com/id74.html

Love, Zazie

Good Music

...please just watch the first few minutes.

we expect you to know the first three bars for rehearsal tonight :)

~Liz and Ilanna

ps. jk!

boleros!

the whore who plays music in her room might play this!

Nilo Cruz

An interview with our playwright, Nilo Cruz, on his process of creating:

...and the Joseph Cornell boxes he's talking about:

(I feel like we're kinda making one of those with this.)

hehe.

His (super cool) website:

http://www.josephcornellbox.com/ 

And finally, an interview from the NYTimes with Nilo and Maria Irene Fornes. I think some of us read this in Intro to Directing with Alma, but it's fun rereading it again now. (Especially at the end--he's talking about Two Sisters and a Piano, the one we did in collabs last year.):

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/27/theater/spring-theater-visions-of-america-what-it-means-to-be-both-cuban-and-american.html?ref=nilocruz&pagewanted=3

~Ilanna

Bright Colors!

Here are some of my favorite pictures from my research on traditonal Cuban clothing.  Enjoy!!

More pictures coming soon!
xoxo
Alana