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  • Abakuá folklore, masquerade dancer (2011).

    This image shows a dancer in full body masquerade performing the dance of the íreme, an ancestor spirit that plays a crucial role in the rituals of the abakuá brotherhood. There is a man holding out a plantain towards the íreme, who has turned his back. This is a gesture of trying to placate and control the unruly spirit.

  • Abakuá music II (2011).

    Men from Oba Ilú play abakuá music. Amauris (on biapa, front left), Silvio (on cuchiyerema, back), Librado (on bonkó enchemiya, center), Penton (on ekon, back right), Dionisio (eroapa, right out of frame).

  • Gregorio Hernández (2011).

    Gregorio Hernández performing with Oba Ilú at the Hotel San Alejandro in Marianao, Havana (2011).

  • Isnavi as Oyá (2009).

    Isnaci Cardoso Díaz dancing as the orisha Oyá in a performance from 2009 with Oba Ilú.

  • Isnavi Cardoso Díaz (b. 1973).

    Isnavi Cardoso Díaz, Jesús María, Havana, (2011).

  • Miguel as Changó (2011).

    Miguel dancing as the orisha Changó at the Hotel San Alejandro in Marianao, Havana (2011).

  • Miguel Martínez Vallarte (b. 1964)

    Miguel during a rehearsal with Oba Ilú in a space shared with Cabildo Quisicuaba in the Los Sitios community of Old Havana.

  • Miguel rehearsing (2011).

  • Oba Ilú at Sábado de la Rumba (2011).

    Oba Ilú at Sabado de la Rumba, a weekly event that takes place on the patio of the CFNC. Here they are with guests including Fariñas, Juan de Dios (seated), Ariel Monterecy, and Maximino Duquense (seated).

  • Yeny as Ochun (2011).

    Yeny Dalman dancing as the orisha Oshun with the group Oba Ilú at the Hotel San Alejandro.