Dancing with Cuba A Memoir of the Revolution
, by GUILLERMOPRIETO, ALMANote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780375725814 | 0375725814
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 2/8/2005
In 1970 a young dancer named Alma Guillermoprieto left New York to take a job teaching at Cuba's 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 Cubais a triumph of memory and feeling.