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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

It’s reasonable to say you haven’t seen classical ballet until you’ve seen it danced by classically trained Cubans. For one weekend in May, Cuban Classical Ballet of Miami (CCBM) performs Paquita ...

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 ...

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.

The concept of style has all but disappeared from many ballet companies. Aesthetic consistency, attention to historical detail, technical precision throughout the ranks -- these attributes are foreign ...

After escaping Cuba for America, Ariel Serrano and Wilmian Hernandez started a ballet school. Now their son Francisco is a star at The Royal Ballet in London. In 1993, while on tour in Mexico with a ...

MIAMI (AP) — Some planned their exodus months in advance. One said she decided to flee at the last minute. The seven dancers with the Cuban National Ballet who defected after a performance in Puerto ...

The Cuban Classical Ballet of Miami will perform eight dances this Saturday under the headline “The Best of the Classical Repertoire Gala,” which is an appropriate title. Eight works do constitute a ...

Mónica Gómez was not in leaping mode during a recent “day off” at Houston Ballet’s studios, unless you count the mental exercise required to jump nonstop from one interviewer to the next. She looked ...