Dancing with Cuba : a memoir of the revolution / Alma Guillermoprieto ; translated from the Spanish by Esther Allen.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Spanish Publication details: New York, NY : Pantheon Books ; c2004.Description: 290 pages ; 20 cmISBN:- 0375420932
- 0375725814
- 972.9106/4 21
- F 1765 .3 .G85 2004
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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BOOKS | Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library General Stacks | The Karen Lee Wald Collection | F 1765 .3 .G85 2004 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not For Loan | NPML22050015 |
Owner put many notes throughout the book in the margins
One: New York -- Two: Cubanacán --Three: Havana -- Four: The harvest -- Five: Coming of age -- Six: Tourism and my conscience -- Seven: Celebrations and atonement -- Eight: Criticism and Self-criticism -- Nine: Art and revolution --
In 1970 a young dancer name Alma Guillermoprieto left New York to take a job teaching at Cuba's National School of Dance. For six month, she worked in mirrorless studios (it was considered more revolutionary) where 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 in 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. " From back of book.
Gift of Karen Wald.
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