Ballet star Carlos Acosta has a dream of saving the ruins of an abandoned Cuban ballet school and starting a new non-profit academy for Cubans and fee-paying foreigners. But a dispute with the ...

The Cuban Classical Ballet of Miami (CCBM), Artistic Director Eriberto Jimenez, founded in 2007 with the mission to promote and preserve the Classical Ballet Repertoire, technique and style ...

Cuban Classical Ballet of Miami founder Pedro Pablo Peña has offered safe haven more than once to dancers fleeing Cuba. He himself arrived in Miami on the 1980 Mariel boatlift. In fact ...

HAVANA – The new head of Cuba's legendary National Ballet says she hopes to renew the institution after the death of long-time director Alicia Alonso by introducing new choreography and ...

The National Ballet of Cuba, founded by Prima Ballerina Assoluta Alicia Alonso in 1948, is one of the world’s premiere classical ballet companies. They're coming to Vancouver February 16-18 at the ...

I don’t know what I expected from my first ever live ballet. But I’m sure a self-driving vintage car, an automated nutcracker and a flying CGI tour of Cuba’s snow-capped capital hadn’t ...

Accepting the award from Cuban ballet star Carlos Acosta, the winner struggled to take in his success. "Wow - I really didn't expect that. That was class," he told a packed Sadler's Wells in London.

He is a historian of Cuban ballet from the early twentieth century to the present, in the contexts of modernism/avant-gardism, the Cuban Revolution, and present-day transnationalism. His research ...

A documentary on the legacy of ballet in Cuba that aired on PBS in Rochester, NY. Filmed on location in Havana, Cuba July – August, 2016. Featuring Laura Alonso, the history of the National ...