MATANZAS, Cuba — A man in a white guayabera approaches a woman and stretches out his hand, palm up, inviting her to dance. She stands up and waves her fan. On the dance floor, they get closer ...

Things to do Entertainment Cuba’s danzon genre: ‘150 years later, it’s still alive.’ At the end of the 19th century in Cuba, a new musical genre and dance emerged ASSOCIATED PRESS ...

Ballet Hispánico continues B Unidos, its video series, with Danzón Watch Party on Wednesday, August 19, 2020 at 7pm EDT. Enjoy a Company performance from the comfort of your own home, followed ...

Ballet Hispánico and NC State LIVE have joined forces for a live free virtual installment of Choreographers with Cocktails & Mocktails: Danzón, on Wednesday, February 17, 2021 at 5:30pm ET.

His ensemble work "Danzon," from 2009, is a gorgeous expression of that mission. Set to a score that encompasses both Dizzy Gillespie and Paquito D'Rivera, it takes inspiration from what's known ...

Noche de Danzón: Get dressed to dance to the Afro-Cuban music of Orquesta Sabor Latino, a 55-year-old 18-piece Chicago band known for danzón, bolero, cumbia and mambo.

While the graceful guajira is guitar based Eastern Cuban folk music, danzon’s ancestry is in the cultured French contradanza that arrived in Cuba by way of Haiti. By the 1920s this had been transmuted ...