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Dancing with Cuba: A Memoir of the Revolution

By Alma Guillermoprieto

Book information

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Year
2007
ISBN
9780307425447, 2003044200
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
431 kB (441545 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2022-09-29 18:31:31
BIO022000BIO026000Biography & AutobiographyHIS024000HistoryNonfiction

Description

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, Guillermoprieto–now 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 Cuba is a triumph of memory and feeling.

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