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Cuba seeks to break Guinness record in casino round

This May 7, the eve of National Son Day, an attempt will be made to break the record on Galiano Street.

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Cuba seeks to break theGuinness record incasino wheel, and for this he will organize a giant with dancers from the capital cities of all the provinces of the country.

This May 7, the eve of National Son Day, an attempt will be made to break the record currently heldVenezuela, which involved 1,585 people in the - until now - largest casino round in the world, as revealed in a note from the official agencyLatin Press.

The appointment will be on Calle Galiano, in the municipality of Centro Habana. Simultaneously, next Sunday, starting at 10:00 a.m., more than 1,500 Cubans danced salsa to surpass the current Venezuelan record.

The roundtable, proposed by the international project Retomando el Son, Bailando Casino, linked to the National Council of Houses of Culture of Cuba, will be led by the creatorLuis Llamo Castillo.

"It will be a great event accompanied by several cultural institutions and academies that are already preparing to carry out various actions that guarantee reaching 2024 with the greatest participation and organization to achieve the feat," the note noted.

According to the organizers of the event, with the holding of the round they intend to "make visible and promote the movement that supports the casino dance in this country, the cradle of this popular genre", which they aspire to become cultural heritage.

Venezuela, for its part, is also preparing to beat its own record and increase the number of dancers who dance salsa in unison in the same circle.

Severalgigantic casino wheels They have been carried out in Cuba previously, aspiring to a Guinness prize that has not been achieved so far.

In 2015,482 couples They danced non-stop for 7.16 minutes at an event that took place on Malecón Avenue in the Cuban capital.

The call aimed to achieve the largest casino round, but it was not achieved because the record was 1,102 people.

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