Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the early ’60s, as Fidel Castro took control of the Cuban educational system, parents fearful of the indoctrination of their ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The essential fest boasts a bonanza of Caribbean and related dance, as well as community gatherings, a photo exhibit, more.

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’ ...

There is a saying in Cuba that Cubans were born dancing. From the influence of West African and Caribbean cultures to the invention of the mambo in the 1930s by native Cuban composer Arsenio Rodriguez ...

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 ...

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 ...