by Madeline Schrock | Nov 1, 2016 | Company Life
For American audiences, Balanchine’s “Rubies” is instantly recognizable. Cuban audiences, though, have never seen the iconic work, due to over five decades of severed diplomatic relations with the U.S. That will change this Sunday, when Beckanne Sisk...
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 Claudia Bauer | Mar 30, 2016 | Company Life
What do changing U.S.–Cuba relations mean for Cuban ballet? Take a look inside the studios and theater of the world-renowned National Ballet of Cuba. All photos by Quinn Wharton for Pointe magazine. First soloist Ivis Díaz Acosta stretches during a Giselle rehearsal....
by Hannah Foster | Oct 14, 2015 | Company Life
During the Cold War, Alicia Alonso was one of the first Western dancers to be invited to perform in the Soviet Union—where she danced Giselle, her signature role, in this 1958 clip. It’s not just her precise, sprightly footwork or her fluid, emotive arms...
by Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
Six dancers from the National Ballet of Cuba recently arrived in Miami after defecting while their company was on tour in Puerto Rico. The dancers have been taken under the wing of Pedro Pablo Peña, the director of Cuban Classical Ballet of Miami....