Recent graduates of the Ballet Nacional de Cuba School performing at the National Theater of Cuba in Havana in February 2015. (Photo: Getty Images)
Cuba is well known for many forms of dance, from the mambo and the tango to salsa, the cha-cha and the rumba. But only ballet enthusiasts know that the dance form is one of the country’s biggest cultural exports. In Cuba, ballet is just as popular as baseball, a sport where players from the Cuban national team regularly defect to the major leagues in the United States.
San Francisco Ballet dancers Lorena Feijóo and Vitor Luiz performing in Tomasson’s The Fifth Season in 2014. (Photo: Erik Tomasson)
Ballet Nacional de Ballet founder Alicia Alonso and Igor Youskevitch performing in the 1947 American Ballet Theatre production of The Nutcracker. (Photo: Getty Images)
English National Ballet dancer Alejandro Virelles performing The Nutcracker in 2014. (Photo: Arnaud Stephenson)
Vadim Muntagirov and Yonah Acosta dancing in the English National Ballet’s performance of Le Corsaire in 2013. (Photo: Arnaud Stephenson)
Cuba is well known for many forms of dance, from the mambo and the tango to salsa, the cha-cha and the rumba. But only ballet enthusiasts know that the dance form is one of the country’s biggest cultural exports. In Cuba, ballet is just as popular as baseball, a sport where players from the Cuban national team regularly defect to the major leagues in the United States.
San Francisco Ballet dancers Lorena Feijóo and Vitor Luiz performing in Tomasson’s The Fifth Season in 2014. (Photo: Erik Tomasson)
Ballet Nacional de Ballet founder Alicia Alonso and Igor Youskevitch performing in the 1947 American Ballet Theatre production of The Nutcracker. (Photo: Getty Images)
English National Ballet dancer Alejandro Virelles performing The Nutcracker in 2014. (Photo: Arnaud Stephenson)
Vadim Muntagirov and Yonah Acosta dancing in the English National Ballet’s performance of Le Corsaire in 2013. (Photo: Arnaud Stephenson)
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