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 ...

Michael Foley, Valda Elizabeth Wilmott and Monessa Sally in SCD's “Cuban Project". Leymis Bolaños Wilmott, the artistic director of Sarasota Contemporary Dance, grew up in Miami’s Hialeah neighborhood ...

Myth has it that a Cuban who doesn’t dance is a rare creature. You could live a lifetime without seeing one, like the endangered Florida panther. “We come from a dancing island,” explains Fernando ...

They are members of Los Hijos del Director, a Cuban company that made its U.S. debut at the Joyce Theater on Tuesday as part of the two-week Cuba Festival. NEW YORK — At the end of George Céspedes’ ...

In what was considered an audacious move in 2012, Osnel Delgado and Daileidys Carrazana left the Cuban national modern dance company, Danza Contemporánea de Cuba, to form their own company, with ...

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Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The Cuban company’s program at the Joyce Theater includes three U.S. premieres. By Siobhan Burke This is the 10th season that Malpaso Dance Company, ...

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Leymis Bolaños Wilmott, the artistic director of Sarasota Contemporary Dance, grew up in Miami’s Hialeah neighborhood surrounded by the music, dance and fierce love of her tight-knit Cuban-American ...

NEW YORK — At the end of George Céspedes’ “El Último Recurso,” dancers stand and stare at the audience for the full duration of a song. That extended staring in stillness, with baleful or at least ...