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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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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Four ballerinas say goodbye. Let us count the ways weâve come to love them.
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âArea 51,â a new dance by Yvonne Meier and Aki Sasamoto, was a wittily imaginative exploration of how much can be communicated almost entirely by movement.
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Alicia Alonso has run the Ballet Nacional for six decades. No one dares ask what comes next.
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Cuba put seven of its eight boxers into this weekend&#39;s Olympic boxing finals and has an opportunity to equal the seven boxing golds it won in the
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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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Dancers in the VÃ­ctor Manuel Ruiz explain the mechanics and the emotions involved in taking a running leap and waiting to be caught.
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Yordanka Hristova was once called "the bride of all Cubans" and was so popular on Fidel Castro's island that Cuban families named their daughters after her.
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A number of recent pieces showed how dance can powerfully focus attention on the essentials: the body, movement, human existence in a mysterious and unknowable world.
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Alessandra Ferri and Kyra Nichols, beloved ballerinas with more than a half-century of performing between them, are as different in style and temperament as they come.
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Alicia Markova, one of the great ballerinas of the 20th century who founded and presided over the English National Ballet, died a day after her 94th birthday.
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Athens, Aug 26 (AIN) Cuban Yanelis Labrada, 22, won the silver medal Thursday in the Taekwondo 49-kilo category at the Athens Olympic Games.
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A painting from Cuba offers a glimpse into the world of art smuggling.
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Choreographers Bosco-Caesar are going the international way.
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NEW YORK  &#151; Alessandra Ferri and Kyra Nichols, beloved ballerinas with more than a half-century of performing between them, are as different in style and temperament as they come.
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Diana Vishneva, a principal dancer with the Kirov Ballet and American Ballet Theater, is widely acknowledged as one of the worldâs great ballerinas.