Born among black slaves on sugar plantations, Cuba's rumba has since become a national icon almost as renown as its cigars or amateur boxers and two years ago was designated by UNESCO as an intangible ...

On August 20-22nd, the Ifé Ilé Afro-Cuban Dance Festival returns to Miami for its 17th year. Annually, the festival offers workshops, panel discussions and performances of Cuban dance and music, led ...

“I’ve got one foot in Miami and one foot in the Caribbean,” says Neri Torres, the founder and director of the Ifé-Ilé Dance Company, which will host its 16th annual Ifé-Ilé Afro-Cuban Dance Festival ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. This spring, Jacob's Pillow Dance and MASS MoCA come together once again to ...

What effect will Obama’s easing of trade and travel between the United States and Cuba have on the island’s most important artistic exports, music and dance? Plenty, no doubt, and soon. After the 1959 ...

HAVANA – Their costumes are typically Spanish – refined dresses complemented with hand-held fans, painted faces and sculpted hair styles. But these dancers are clearly Caribbean, and while the music ...

Immersed in the soulful rhythms and rich musical history of his birthplace, Cuban dancer Lment was in many ways destined to dance. “I became a dancer because I was inspired by Micheal Jackson,” he ...

When Asori Soto’s family returned to Havana after six years in New York City, where his father worked for the United Nations, the 11-year-old suffered culture shock. “There was nothing,” Soto recalls ...