Dancing with Cuba - A Memoir of the Revolution (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Random House
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2005
First published:	February 2005
Authors:	Alma Guillermoprieto
Dimensions:	205 x 133 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	290
ISBN-13:	978-0-375-72581-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Biography > General
LSN:	0-375-72581-4
Barcode:	9780375725814

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