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Bare Feet With Mickela Mallozzi: Havana, Cuba

27 minutes, 58 seconds

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"Bare Feet With Mickela Mallozzi: Havana, Cuba" explores the history, music, dance, and cultural identity of Havana through a social studies and arts lens. The episode introduces Cuba’s Indigenous roots, Spanish colonization, the transatlantic slave trade, the Cuban Revolution, and modern economic challenges, then connects this history to living traditions. Featured topics include Afro-Cuban spirituality, Yoruba-based orishas, ritual and ceremony, Afro-Chinese Cuban heritage, contemporary dance, salsa, and community arts spaces. Visits to Casa de África, Regla, Havana’s Chinatown, and MalPaso Dance Company highlight cultural blending, resilience, immigration, and artistic expression. This documentary supports curriculum connections in world history, geography, cultural studies, religion, music, and dance. Part of the "Bare Feet With Mickela Mallozzi" series.

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Runtime: 27 minutes, 58 seconds

Topic: Arts, Geography, History, Religion, Philosophy, and Spirituality, Social Science
Subtopic: Culture and Society, Dance, Music, Performing Arts, World Geography, World History (General), World Religions
Grade/Interest Level: 7 - 12
Release Year: 2026
Producer/Distributor: Sauce & Liver Productions, LLC
Series: Bare Feet With Mickela Mallozzi
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City with lots of orange roofs on buildings. The title text reads, "Dancing in my Italy." Caption. "I've landed in Italy, and I"m heading to my family's hometown."

Man and woman in a dance studio perform a dance together as they look down at their feet. Caption. "You're connected with someone like I've never felt before."

Many small fires in the darkness appear before a large lit screen with Korean writing projected on it. The silhouettes of many heads are slightly visible. Caption. "I'm here to celebrate the Jeju Fire Festival."

Row of men wearing red traditional Croatian clothing and a row of men wearing black traditional Croatian clothing perform a dance in front of a seated audience. Caption. "1 of the oldest living traditions is the Moreska dance."

2 Native American people wearing brightly colored traditional Native American clothing with big feathers perform a dance. Caption. "The Lumbee, the Native American tribe indigenous to this region."

Woman plays bagpipes as another person dressed in kilt stands next to her. Caption. I find 1 more reason to love this country even more.

Cut-out photo of a multi-story building set onto a white screen. Text on image reads, "Montreal then and now." Caption. Welcome to Montreal, Canada.

Gothic church with multi-colored roof designs in geometric patterns. Caption. Vienna is quite accessible and extremely easy to get around.

4 women in traditional Malaysian clothing gather around a crowned woman wearing a red tunic. Caption. Depicting stories of either myth or of a time long-past.

Woman with crossed hands at her chest speaks to 2 women dressed in red and gold costumes who gesture back. Caption. Thank you so much for letting me dance with you.