by Toba Singer | Jun 11, 2018 | Profiles
Grettel Morejón and Sadaise Arencibía, principal ballerinas with the National Ballet of Cuba, danced the title role of Giselle in the company’s performances on June 6 and 8 at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in upstate New York. SPAC was the...
by Claudia Bauer | Mar 31, 2016 | Career
This story originally appeared in the April/May 2016 issue of Pointe. Photography by Quinn Wharton “My dream was to dance in Cuba,” says Lorena Feijóo. “I didn’t want to leave my country.” It’s a lament the San Francisco Ballet principal shares...
by Margaret Fuhrer | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
I wasn’t planning to write about Ballet Nacional de Cuba, performing this week at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. In fact, I was relieved that I didn’t have to. How can you evaluate a company so storied? Its founder, the incomparable Alica Alonso, is...