Upstairs in a lofty studio at the Margaret Alkek William Center for Dance, there's something a little different about Monday's afternoon class. Some of the male dancers wear cargo-style joggers and ...

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 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by As the country’s economy falters, members of the storied Cuban National Ballet have sought and found work in companies abroad. By Nina Strochlic When ...

“Aurora’s Wedding” by the Cuban Classical Ballet of Miami will be performed on Saturday, May 11, at the Fillmore Miami Beach, and will feature dancers who abandoned the National Ballet of Cuban while ...

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HAVANA (AP) — Seven young members of the National Ballet of Cuba defected last month while on a performing tour in Mexico, an island dance official said Wednesday. A ballet company official, who ...

In 2020, Rafi Maldonado-Lopez, artistic director of the “Men Who Dance” all-male dance festival and founder of the Inter-American Choreographic Institute, introduced the inaugural program as a bold ...

When you go to the ballet, you often see female dancers in the spotlight. But in one special piece, it's the male dancer who is all alone and center stage. For the first time in six years, Boston ...

HAVANA (Reuters) - As Britain's Royal Ballet wrapped up a five-day stay in Cuba on Saturday, it was not just the end of a tour, but the end of a career for dancer Alexandra Ansanelli. The 28-year-old ...

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 ...