Dance Cuba: Dreams of Flight While avoiding stepping on any political toes, "Dance Cuba: Dreams of Flight" elegantly documents the emotional and artistic ties between Cuban and American dancers and ...

When he led the Washington Ballet to Cuba for a groundbreaking string of performances in 2000, Artistic Director Septime Webre was carrying a load of personal as well as professional baggage. As ...

Carlos Acosta, the son of an Afro-Cuban truck driver, rose from one of Havana’s poorest neighborhoods to become an international ballet star who combines a seemingly effortless grace with an earthy ...

A modern dance company from Cuba is coming to the Prince Theater in Philadelphia this week. Malpaso has been praised internationally for their energetic, cutting-edge work. The company’s success is ...

Ramon Ramos Alayo may be onto something here. And his Cuban dance party in the heart of the Mission this weekend perhaps signaled the beginning of a promising new venture. He created a program called ...

“Why is it so delicious when Cubans dance salsa?” asks Marisol Blanco, a former member of the National Folkloric Troupe of Cuba, who has been teaching dance in Miami since 2008. Her answer: “Because ...

Insua is following in his father’s dancing footsteps by teaching at Alvin Ailey.Zandy Mangold Stevie Insua (right) with his dad, Felix “Pupy” Insua, in 2010 at Bronx rumba club El Fogon.courtesy of ...

In the early ’60s, as Fidel Castro took control of the Cuban educational system, parents fearful of the indoctrination of their children and the loss of their authority asked the United States for ...

Dance from Cuba, like its music, has a hot reputation – beautiful bodies powered by rhythm, sensuality, and instinct. But “Possible Impossible,” which Havana troupe Retazos and Swedish company Memory ...

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