(La plena)

Content: One of the DivEdCo's films that best depicts the history and evolution of another genre of popular music from the coasts and of African origin: the plena. It presents sequences of interpreters of those rhythms in Ponce, in the dances of the coastal areas, and the fusion of popular and refined genres in presentations by Ballets de San Juan of the ballet-plena by Amaury Veray, "Cuando las mujeres" ("When the Women").

Countries:

Puerto Rico

Genres:

Documentary

Runtime:

28 minutes

Year:

1966

Directors:

Amílcar Tirado

Production companies:

Film Unit of the Division of Community Education, Puerto Rico,

Divedco

Actors:

Narrator

Crews:

Writer

Music

Director

Sound Engineer

Story