Dancing with Cuba: A Memoir of the Revolution, (Paperback)

from wandering_star

Alma Guillermoprieto is now a very respected journalist and writer on Latin American affairs. but in the early 1970s she was a dancer in New York City, trying to scrape a living in avant-garde classical dance. Fed up with being third choice for every part, when Merce Cunningham suggests she apply...

from tura62

This is a relatively well-written account of Ms. Guillermoprieto's teaching sojourn in Havana in the 70's. She was a Mexican modern dancer living in New York when she was given the opportunity to teach modern dance at the National School in Cuba. This book isn't really about dance, though. It's a...

from bogopea

Disappointing. Story of a weak woman who is screwing up her life.