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...Cuba in 1959, who would have guessed that one of the items high on his agenda would be launching a national ballet company? Yet the idea fit right in with his revolutionary goal of bringing art to the masses. Castro asked Cuba's prima ballerina, Alicia Alonso, and her dancer husband Fernando how much they would need to make it happen. They said $100,000. Castro gave them $200,000. The investment has been paying off ever since...
...with her sister, she has a more lyrical, flowing style, flirting gracefully with the tempos and holding breathtaking balances en pointe in such roles as the dual leads in Swan Lake. Lorna was flourishing as a prima ballerina in Cuba's National Ballet but left anyway, along with her dancer husband Nelson Madrigal, now also a principal in Boston. That time Alonso acquiesced and gave the pair her blessing. "We need to go around the world," says Feijóo. "We need to work with different choreographers, different companies, to learn different styles, because this career is really short...
...Latin influx. In contrast to the U.S., where training is haphazard except at a few top companies, many Latin countries have excellent ballet schools, often subsidized by the government, where youngsters are put through a rigorous classical regimen. Spain boasts a fine school run by former Maurice Béjart dancer Víctor Ullate. Argentina has another, at the century-old Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. But the most celebrated and influential school in the Latin world is the one attached to Cuba's National Ballet, supported by Castro since 1959 and presided over by the indomitable Alonso...
...Jung, who says his father was publicly executed in one of Kim's camps, intends to play things straight. The story, which Jung himself wrote, is nothing if not realistic, which is to say it's about as grim as can be. It revolves around a 26-year-old dancer imprisoned along with her family after her father is accused of spying for South Korea's National Intelligence Service. She's raped by a prison warden, finds herself pregnant, falls in love with a guard, then realizes her situation is hopeless and attempts suicide?a punishable crime in North Korea...
...First Knightâ€: In this timeless Arthurian legend, Gere proves that he may be an accomplished pianist and tap-dancer, but fencing is not his forte. This cinematic portrayal of the myth makes “A Kid in King Arthur’s Court†seem Shakespearean in comparison...