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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Dissatisfied with quality of the material they were performing, soloists Osnel Delgado and Daileidys Carrazana decided to leave Cuba's leading modern dance troupe to develop their own choreographic ...
In the best of times, the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival has served as San Francisco’s most democratic cultural institution, presenting a vast array of free cultural events in an eminently accessible ...
Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Lucy Walker takes you into the history of Cuban dance in one of the standout videos from this year’s Sundance Film Festival Virtual Reality slate. Acclaimed documentary ...
This interview is part of an ongoing Star series highlighting Kansas Citians from historically underrepresented communities ...