The ballet Giselle is a classic longed for and always welcomed by admirers of the Romantic repertoire and Cuban style, whose preservation is vital to the Cuban Classical Ballet of Miami (CCBM). Under ...

Cuban National Ballet School Founder and Director Ramona de Saa and Catherine Conley at a recent Ruth Page Center Gala. Conley will train under Ramona de Saa in Havana, Cuba beginning in September.

Saela Rivera-Martinez was just 4 years old when a family friend, her “ballet godmother,” showed her excerpts from some of the world’s most famous ballets. It wasn’t “Giselle,” “Swan Lake” or even “The ...

“Aurora’s Wedding” by the Cuban Classical Ballet of Miami will be performed on Saturday, May 11, at the Fillmore Miami Beach, and will feature dancers who abandoned the National Ballet of Cuban while ...

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 ...

Cuban dancer Yankiel Vázquez thought his dream of dancing with Cuba's National Ballet was finished when a rare neurological disorder nearly crippled him several years ago. HAVANA, Aug 24 (Reuters) - ...

Cuba has produced some of the world’s top ballet dancers for decades. Greats like Alicia Alonso, founder of the Ballet Nacional de Cuba, American Ballet Theatre principal Xiomara Reyes, San Francisco ...

When Ariel Serrano was just 11 – growing up in Santiago de Cuba and not much interested in the classical ballet training the Cuban government had selected him for the year before – he saw a ballet ...

HAVANA (Reuters) - Members of Russia's Bolshoi Ballet will perform in Havana's Karl Marx theater next week in their first appearance on the island in 30 years, Cuba's state-run press said on Friday.

The Cuban Classical Ballet of Miami was founded in 2006 by Pedro Pablo Pena, Director of the International Ballet Festival of Miami, recognized as one of the most important festivals of its kind in ...

HAVANA (Reuters) - As Britain's Royal Ballet wrapped up a five-day stay in Cuba on Saturday, it was not just the end of a tour, but the end of a career for dancer Alexandra Ansanelli. The 28-year-old ...