Camagua: From the Chancleta to the Dream of a Greater Festival
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Among the excerpts the Camagua Folkloric Company will perform this Saturday, April 11th, at the Avellaneda Theater is Chancleteando. Today, part of the group’s established repertoire, the piece also serves as a symbolic bridge to an unexpected image: a young Fernando Medrano dancing. For decades, Medrano has been publicly defined by his leadership—the director, the researcher, the guide—rather than the performer. And yet, a photograph shared during the recent theoretical session returns him to that origin: a teenager, still in secondary school, performing the very dance of the chancleta.