In Cuba today, where blackouts and shortages of fuel, water and food complicate daily life, those demands extend far beyond ...

Cuba’s cherished ballet tradition endures despite blackouts and shortages, as students and professionals contend with scarce ...

Cuban ballerinas are maintaining their poise, even with the daily disruption of Cuba's energy crisis (AP/ Ariel Fernández, ...

MIAMI (Reuters) - Six dancers who defected last month from the National Ballet of Cuba, one of the country's proudest and most prestigious institutions, auditioned at a Miami ballet group on Thursday.

In Cuban Ballet, author Octavio Roca utilizes words and lush photographs to tell the story of Alicia Alonso, Cuba’s most prominent prima ballerina and choreographer (and also one of the most powerful ...

Havana, Dec 28 (Prensa Latina) Performances of Romeo and Juliet, Giselle, Swan Lake, Don Quixote, and Carmen by the ProDanza Center will honor the Alonso family, founders of Cuban ballet, at Havana's ...

María Elena Llorente, Principal Dancer and *Maître* (ballet mistress/coach) of the National Ballet of Cuba (BNC), passed away Monday morning at the age of 80 ...

While on tour in Spain in November 2013, dancers from the Ballet Nacional de Cuba (BNC) sent a letter to the company’s long-time director, Alicia Alonso, complaining of poor working conditions and ...

HAVANA (Reuters) - For Carlos Acosta, the son of a black truck driver in Communist-run Cuba, overcoming poverty, prejudice and politics to become a global ballet legend, write a best-selling memoir ...

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 ...

Cuban ballet legend Alicia Alonso, who developed a new Latin-influenced style and taught well into her 90s despite being practically blind for most of her dancing career, died on Thursday. She was 98.

Cunard will host the ballet company Acosta Danza for a six-week residency next summer. (Photo Credit: Cunard) Cunard’s Queen Victoria ship will be hosting the critically acclaimed Cuban ballet company ...