In Cuban Ballet, author Octavio Roca utilizes words and lush photographs to tell the story of Alicia Alonso, Cuba’s most prominent prima ballerina and choreographer (and also one of the most powerful ...

HAVANA (Reuters) - A woman in a floaty dress wrestles a minotaur who reflects her inner demons in "Errand into the Maze", one of the Martha Graham Dance Company works that made its Cuban premiere this ...

HAVANA, Oct 27 (Reuters) - The National Ballet of Cuba is celebrating its 75th anniversary with performances culminating in a tribute to its late founder Alicia Alonso, who used her global star power ...

The ballet Giselle is a classic longed for and always welcomed by admirers of the Romantic repertoire and Cuban style, whose preservation is vital to the Cuban Classical Ballet of Miami (CCBM). Under ...

Saela Rivera-Martinez rehearses “The Awakening of Flora” recently at the Sarasota Cuban Ballet School. Rivera-Martinez, 16, has been selected to participate in the prestigious Prix de Lausanne ...

Cuban ballerina Lorena Feijoo returns to south Florida this weekend, joining Cuban National Ballet alum and former Miami City Ballet dancer Rolando Sarabia in Marius Petipa’s production of Don Quixote ...

When Ariel Serrano was just 11 – growing up in Santiago de Cuba and not much interested in the classical ballet training the Cuban government had selected him for the year before – he saw a ballet ...

Saela Rivera-Martinez was just 4 years old when a family friend, her “ballet godmother,” showed her excerpts from some of the world’s most famous ballets. It wasn’t “Giselle,” “Swan Lake” or even “The ...

Alicia Alonso, who overcame near-blindness to become a charismatic ballerina of unusual range and power, and who helped found what became, with Fidel Castro’s support, the National Ballet of Cuba, ...

Cuban dancer Yankiel Vázquez thought his dream of dancing with Cuba's National Ballet was finished when a rare neurological disorder nearly crippled him several years ago. HAVANA, Aug 24 (Reuters) - ...

Mónica Gómez was not in leaping mode during a recent “day off” at Houston Ballet’s studios, unless you count the mental exercise required to jump nonstop from one interviewer to the next. She looked ...