Dancing with Cuba: A Memoir of the Revolution

Title: Dancing with Cuba: A Memoir of the Revolution Author: Alma Guillermoprieto ISBN: 9780375725814 Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Published: 2005 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: Used: Very Good Memoir 1626123 Publisher 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 seem