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  • Title: ...se parece a la felicidad
  • Alternate Title: ...it looks like happiness
  • Holdings: video (HIDVL)
  • Duration: 00:14:44
  • Language: Spanish
  • Date: 1997
  • Location: La Habana, Cuba.
  • Type-Format: performance, documentary, performance art
  • Cast: Manuel Mendive, artist ; Roger Lorda, Inés María Pérez, Joel Pérez, Danays Rivero, Santiago Nani (Mendive's dancers, musicians, and models) ; Gisela González, Wendy Ferrer, Pablo Trujillo, Ángel Saldívar, Aime Herrera, Ana Francis, Víctor Alexander, Isbert Ramos, Alexis Zanete (Danza Nacional de Cuba dancers) ; Dennis Bain, Alberto González, Aloy Junco, Robinson Chacón (Conjunto Folklórico Nacional de Cuba danceers) ; César Waterson, Alfredo Torres, Raúl Montes, Maikel Navarro (Tropicana dancers) ; Roy Carreño, René Cuevas, Eduardo Dorticos (acrobats) ; Grupo Raíces Profundas, Grupo JJ (dancers & musicians) ; Regino Jiménez, Fermín Nani, Armando Aballi, Ciro Colas (Danza Nacional de Cuba musicians).
  • Credits: Manuel Mendive, producer, creator, script ; Aarón Vega, documetary director, script ; Noel Álvarez (Luz Brillante Producciones), executive producer ; Juan Delgado, performance production, executive coordination ; Alexander González, Carlos Molina, special assistants to Mendive ; Rafael Solís, director of photography ; Pedro Suárez, editor ; Andrés Ortega, assistant editor ; Marcelo Suárez, technical assistant ; Rafael Solís, Iván Nápoles, Ernesto Gil, videographers ; Javier Figueroa, Pedro Suárez, Andrés Ortega, Aarón Vega, soundtrack ; José León, live sound ; Guillermina Ramos, consultant.

...se parece a la felicidad (1997)

In "...se parece a la felicidad," renowned Cuban artist Manuel Mendive orchestrates a massive performance event, combining visual arts, music, dance, performance art, Afro-Cuban elements and 200 hundred bodies painted to represent the sky, the sea, and the land. In this performance, brightly-colored bodies streak through the streets of Havana, shouting and gesturing wildly, dancing in sync, carrying ducks. Aaron Vega's video documents this exuberant public body art performance, including scenes of Mendive's unique method of preparing the performers: painting some with bright animals and abstract shapes, and covering others entirely in one color.


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