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 ...

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 ...

Even with social distancing restrictions relaxing, many people probably won’t feel like heading to clubs or concerts for the foreseeable future. The men are from Cuba but have resided in Italy for ...

America’s premier ballet company paid tribute in Havana to Cuban dance legend Alicia Alonso as two cultures separated by a half century of political animus came together – for an evening at least – ...

To her admirers, Alicia Alonso is the gracious grande dame of Cuban classical ballet. To detractors, she’s a conservative cultural czarina who has clung to power even longer than Fidel Castro. But ...

What effect will Obama’s easing of trade and travel between the United States and Cuba have on the island’s most important artistic exports, music and dance? Plenty, no doubt, and soon. After the 1959 ...

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 ...

SHEBOYGAN - It will be a hot night, even though it's in November, when Cuba’s most popular dance company, Lizt Alfonso Dance Cuba, comes to the John Michael Kohler Arts Center at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday ...

Critically-acclaimed documentary filmmaker Lucy Walker (“Wasteland”, “Countdown to Zero”) has been spending a lot of time in Cuba. She is on board to direct a sequel to Wim Wenders’ groundbreaking ...

HAVANA --Usually Havana lags behind New York, but, with the partnership of U.S. choreographer Ron Brown, dance fans in the Cuban capital got the jump on the Big Apple. Brown was in Havana to create a ...

Upon arriving in Cuba recently for the 3rd International Scientific Convention of Cienfuegos, SUNY Cortland junior Madison Houghton and classmates experienced something akin to Bollywood or the set of ...

Six more dancers from the National Ballet of Cuba defected during a performance abroad. Lester Tomé, a former Cuban dance critic, tells NPR's Scott Simon why Cuba can't hold on to its ballerinas. This ...