When Ifé-Ile dancers transition from contemporary to traditional Afro-Cuban motion on stage and petition the Yoruba gods for protection in a foreign land, choreographer Neri Torres will have revealed ...

We were introduced to Cuba’s lively Afro-Cuban music scene at a concert for Cuban traditional music at the hotel, which featured two original members of the world famous Buena Vista Social Club. We ...

Ramon Ramos Alayo may be onto something here. And his Cuban dance party in the heart of the Mission this weekend perhaps signaled the beginning of a promising new venture. He created a program called ...

Recently, the White House took historic first steps to end travel restrictions to Cuba. But until an epic Capitol Hill battle, which will likely end in blood, tears, and airline tickets, lifts the ...

What effect will Obama’s easing of trade and travel between the United States and Cuba have on the island’s most important artistic exports, music and dance? Plenty, no doubt, and soon. After the 1959 ...

Reporting from SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba — “Solo quiero conectarme la Wi-Fi.” That’s the hook from a new song by the Barcelona-based, Afro-Cuban singer and producer Kumar Sublevao-Beat. And throughout ...

HAVANA — “It’s been 51 years since the event you Americans call the Bay of Pigs, but now Playa Girón is a popular beach destination for foreigners,” the guide tells me. It is hard to imagine that the ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the early ’60s, as Fidel Castro took control of the Cuban educational system, parents fearful of the indoctrination of their ...