Throughout four years, a camera witnesses the day-to-day in the headquarters of Cuban Contemporary Dance (CCD), the most emblematic company in Havana’s scene. Trainings, choreographic works, international tours, provide the context from which Out of Scene addresses dancing as an expression of collective will, while reflections, fears, contradictions or individual certainties surface at the
same time.
What is a dancer? There is no sole or unambiguous answer. The question triggers other related issues: the body, instinct, profession, career life span or the artist’s relation with the stage or with its close environment.
Speaking of dance involves speaking of the body. Speaking of the body requires placing it in a spatio-temporal map. The dancer is seen as a common citizen in permanent need to perform both life and movement together. This is why the verbal and kinetic discourse of Out of Scene will take us, once and again, to nowadays Cuba.
