Performers and choreographers proudly ballyhoo the notion that dance is a universal language. It’s true that a dancer can walk into a ballet class anywhere in the Western world (and in many places ...

An academic foray to Cuba immersed four SUNY Cortland students in music, dance and art as well as scholarship.

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 ...

J. Calvin Jarrell knows Cubans have suffered because of their country’s social, political and economic isolation, but he can’t help but worry how changing tides will affect it. The retired dance ...

Shortly before midnight on Oct. 1, Lester and Lawrence González Ramos walked up to the border crossing between Mexico and Mission, Texas, each carrying a small suitcase with travel essentials and his ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Reporting from SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba — “Solo quiero conectarme la Wi-Fi.” That’s the hook from a new song by the Barcelona-based, Afro-Cuban singer and producer Kumar Sublevao-Beat. And throughout ...