“I’ve got one foot in Miami and one foot in the Caribbean,” says Neri Torres, the founder and director of the Ifé-Ilé Dance Company, which will host its 16th annual Ifé-Ilé Afro-Cuban Dance Festival ...
The cultural enthusiasm of Ibbu Okun, a dance troupe from Havana, Cuba, was so captivating that members of the audience joined the dancers on the stage last night for the performance of their final ...
Later this month, rhythm and dance from the Afro-Cuban perspective will be given a platform for celebration and meaningful academic exploration at this month’s Ife-Ile Afro-Cuban Dance Festival on ...
It all started when Pollak realized he not only wanted to play Afro-Cuban music, he wanted to dance it. Not dance to it; but audibly create the rhythms with his feet and hands. Its as if Fred Astaire ...
Hip hop and block parties have always been tied at the hip. The Grammy-winning rap group Orishas headlined such an event before thousands of their fellow Cubans on the streets of Havana in March 2018, ...
CubaCaribe presents its 16th Annual Festival of Dance & Music featuring the world premiere of She Who is Queen/Ada Ara, choreographed and directed by Susana Arenas Pedroso and performed by Arenas ...
Dance Cuba: Dreams of Flight While avoiding stepping on any political toes, "Dance Cuba: Dreams of Flight" elegantly documents the emotional and artistic ties between Cuban and American dancers and ...
It took me a little while to get into this one. El Kilo, the third installment from Cuban rap superheroes Orishas, maintains the group’s ability to create beautifully melodic hip-hop from traditional ...
A dancer of the Afro-Cuban IFE-ILE Dance Company performs at its annual dance festival in 2014. Courtesy of Nelson Alvarez/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0 Later this month, rhythm and dance from the Afro-Cuban ...