Cuba's Brilliant Ballerinas Wow Dance World
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From a dilapidated Havana mansion run by a nearly blind legendary ballerina, Cuba is turning out some of the world's finest ballet dancers who are hotly sought by leading international companies.
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At the opening of New YorkÂs ÂSteve Reich @ 70Â festivities, the lively energy and a propulsive beat of Mr. ReichÂs music helped propel dancers and inspire choreographers.
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CAMAGUEY, Cuba -- Children swarmed the table outside Blanca Peleaz's concrete home in this central Cuban city. There were cakes and cookies, gooey frosting and candy speckles, rare abundance in a place where food shortages are the norm.
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By Cutmore, Jason  Ever since I learned Granados' sixth Spanish Dance, Rondalla Aragonesa, as a teenager, Spanish music has been a passionate interest for me.
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Argentine ballet great Julio Bocca danced into retirement Saturday before tens of thousands of cheering fans, ending a brilliant quarter-century run on the world's most famous stages.
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CASILDA, Cuba -- Tiny flames jump and sputter in the night here, suspended above the roadbed as if held by an invisible wand.
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The New York City Balletâs spring season includes works that rank among New York Cityâs greatest treasures, and glowing performances that showcase the wide range of Balanchineâs genius.
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The business world is populated with successful Cuban-Americans who left their homeland as children when Fidel Castro took power. But even before Carlos Gutierrez was
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PRAGUE - The new monarch of Cambodia was once a dance-crazy youngster whose passion for ballet took him all the way to Prague for 13 years of rigorous training with the best, steeping himself in Czech language and culture in the process.
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Travel: The Cadillacs and dance shows are fun, but real Havana - beyond the cliches - is more exciting
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From downtown to Brooklyn and beyond, dance is evolving into a myriad of hybrids, as seen in recent performances.
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This week Dance Theater Workshop presented âSolo Adaptations,â four interpretations over two nights by highly trained performers of Deborah Hayâs dance âRoom.â
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A six-foot tall, hairy-legged ballerina has learned to dance like a lady.
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The death this month, at 94, of Alicia Markova, the magical woman who inspired the two greatest geniuses of 20th-century ballet , George Balanchine and Frederick Ashton, capped a year of a particularly ...
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ATHENS -- Yudel Johnson lost the gold medal to a shadow last night. The Cuban light welterweight was slickly outpointed by Thailand's Manus Boonjumnong at Peristeri Boxing Hall, 17-11, but what really beat him was Cuba's exporting of its coaches to a host of other countries.
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With its acrobatic twirls and jazzy kicks, the three-step swing is one of David and Joey Ono's favorite dances.
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Virtually every square foot of this capital city is owned by the socialist state, but the people of Havana are as obsessed with real estate as, say, condo-crazy New Yorkers.