In 1970 a young dancer named Alma Guillermoprieto left New York to take a job teaching at Cubas 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, Guillermoprietonow 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.
Dancing with Cuba: A Memoir of the Revolution
$24.74 - $30.93
- UPC:
- 9780375725814
- Maximum Purchase:
- 3 units
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 2005-02-08
- Release Date:
- 2005-02-08
- Author:
- Alma Guillermoprieto
- Language:
- english
- Edition:
- Reprint