Dance and Value: roots in the drum

This week in Afrologica (where most of my blogging has been taking place for 2010), we are investigating how value is created in dance as well as hot spots to take dance that are embedded in a drum culture. I thought it would be interesting to start by looking at the Danza Contemporanea De Cuba, as they exist as an arts entity that is highly prized in a country where dance arts are vibrant and often part of several distinct drum cultures. It is also a state organ, and therefore a highly curated presentation of "Cubanismo;" one could even argue that their repertory could be considered as much censorship as it is curatorial audacity: arts placed in a primary position to drive and augment governmental policy. Intriguing.