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 ...

Cuban ballerina Laura Kamila Rojas is dancing her way through the transport woes, lengthy power cuts and economic hardship ...

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 ...

Cuban ballerina Laura Kamila Rojas is dancing her way through the transport woes, lengthy power cuts and economic hardship ...

Cuban ballet legend Alicia Alonso, who developed a new Latin-influenced style and taught well into her 90s despite being practically blind for most of her dancing career, died on Thursday. She was 98.

SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — A teacher with the National Ballet School of Cuba credited with launching the careers of some of the island’s most famous dancers is giving classes in Florida. Ramona de Saa is ...

HAVANA (Reuters) - Former Royal Ballet star Carlos Acosta, whose dynamic masculinity on stage exemplified the style of his native Cuba, is breaking more boundaries as his young dance company showcases ...

Cunard will host the ballet company Acosta Danza for a six-week residency next summer. (Photo Credit: Cunard) Cunard’s Queen Victoria ship will be hosting the critically acclaimed Cuban ballet company ...

When she was just 3 years old, Carolina Rodríguez was captivated by the ballerinas in a Cuban television show called “Eternal Dance.” She set her sights high, entering the government-run Cuban ...

When Alicia Alonso was establishing the National Cuban Ballet in the 1950s she was faced with interrogation from the communist regime as to how a European art form could represent and serve the Cuban ...

The concept of style has all but disappeared from many ballet companies. Aesthetic consistency, attention to historical detail, technical precision throughout the ranks -- these attributes are foreign ...

HAVANA (Reuters) - For Carlos Acosta, the son of a black truck driver in Communist-run Cuba, overcoming poverty, prejudice and politics to become a global ballet legend, write a best-selling memoir ...