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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Six dancers from the Cuban National Ballet have arrived in Miami, after defecting while on tour in search of success outside a homeland where they say young artists have no future. "Dancers are ...

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 ...

Valentine's Day will find Vianca Palacios and Zachary Bennett rehearsing for an upcoming production of "Cinderella." ...

Alicia Alonso, who overcame near-blindness to become a charismatic ballerina of unusual range and power, and who helped found what became, with Fidel Castro’s support, the National Ballet of Cuba, ...

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 ...

In Cuba, where audiences sing along to ballet scores and ballet dancers are beloved celebrities, Valdés is something of a hometown hero. And she knows her mission: “I have the legacy of Alicia Alonso ...

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 ...

A Cuban-American dancer has fulfilled her dream of becoming a ballerina in Chicago. Suzanne Lopez has an impressive 19-year career as a professional dancer for the Joffrey. Lopez also helps train ...