Four days of celebrations for the 100th birthday of Latina Celia Cruz, known as the queen of salsa, begins Sept. 3 at Indiana ...

Ramón Ramos Alayo, artistic director and choreographer of at Alayo Dance Company, first came to San Francisco as a guest teacher of Cuban dance in 1996. A year later he moved from Cuba to the Bay ...

On Wednesdays, SALSAthens hosts Cuban salsa dancing lessons at El Carretonero event space, which is just down the street from Mexican restaurant Tlaloc. They have an advanced class at 6:30 ...

Cuba has one fairly old, fairly large modern-dance company, Danza Contemporánea de Cuba, founded in 1959, the year of the Revolution, and numbering thirty-odd dancers.

Six more dancers from the National Ballet of Cuba defected during a performance abroad. Lester Tomé, a former Cuban dance critic, tells NPR's Scott Simon why Cuba can't hold on to its ballerinas.

“There was the rumba craze in the 1930s and then you had all of these [Cuban dance] crazes,” said trombonist and “Sounding Salsa” author Chris Washburne. “The mambo craze, the cha-cha.” ...

Havana-based contemporary dance company Malpaso, whose name, jokingly, means misstep in Spanish, skillfully blends unfussy ballet, its native Afro-Cuban tradition, and intensely physical modern dance.

Stevie Insua is one of the most popular instructors at Alvin Ailey, where he teaches Afro-Cuban dance on Friday nights to the general public. It doesn’t matter that the 40-year-old barely speaks ...

A dance with Castro's CubaI am here on a people-to-people exchange. This means that I must travel with a group tour and that I am not to go to the beach, as many Europeans do who flock to Cuba. It ...

“Dance Cuba” is as interested in the personal side of its profiled artists as their careers, so Acosta is first seen with his family and his always-proud father, Pedro.

Modern dance has flourished in Cuba in recent years. And one of the best, up-in-coming Cuban modern dance groups is Malpaso, according to Smith College assistant professor Lester Tome, a native of ...