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Dancing with Cuba: A Memoir of the Revolution

Dancing with Cuba: A Memoir of the Revolution

Guillermoprieto, Alma

Paperback

Entertainment & Performing ArtsBiographies GeneralHistorical Figures

ISBN10: 0375725814
ISBN13: 9780375725814
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Feb 8 2005
Pages: 290
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.65 Width: 5.22 Depth: 8.06
Language: English
In 1970 a young dancer named Alma Guillermoprieto left New York to take a job teaching at Cuba's National School of Dance. For six months, she worked in mirrorless studios (it was considered more revolutionary); her poorly trained but ardent students worked without them but dreamt of greatness. Yet in the midst of chronic shortages and revolutionary upheaval, Guillermoprieto found in Cuba a people whose sense of purpose touched her forever.

In this electrifying memoir, Guillermoprieto-now an award-winning journalist and arguably one of our finest writers on Latin America- resurrects a time when dancers and revolutionaries seemed to occupy the same historical stage and even a floor exercise could be a profoundly political act. Exuberant and elegiac, tender and unsparing, Dancing with Cuba is a triumph of memory and feeling.

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