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Cuban National Ballet

Cubans Cruise Into L.A. With Classic Don Quixote

Debra Levine | Posted 08.24.2011 | Arts
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Debra Levine

Our Cuban brothers and sisters cruised into the Los Angeles Music Center last night with their charmingly ramshackle Don Quixote, a vehicle purring on high-octane Russian ballet technique that's been passed through generations.

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Toe Shoes in the Night

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: American Ballet Theater, Don Quixote, Cuba, Cuban National Ballet, World News
Yoani Sanchez

On the stage is a figure in toe shoes and a tutu, one of the principle dancers of the American Ballet Theater which is visiting Havana. The audience applauds to delirium for a dance troupe that hasn't been in Cuba for 50 years.

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