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Dancing with Cuba

A Memoir of the Revolution

By Alma Guillermoprieto

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| Hardcover | 9780375420931

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A vivid and mesmerizing memoir of the six months the author spent in Cuba in 1970, a time when she began to develop her own fervent political conscience.Alma Guillermoprieto—an award–winning journalist and arguably our most clear-eyed observer of Latin America—now turns her keen poContinue

A vivid and mesmerizing memoir of the six months the author spent in Cuba in 1970, a time when she began to develop her own fervent political conscience.Alma Guillermoprieto—an award–winning journalist and arguably our most clear-eyed observer of Latin America—now turns her keen powers of observation onto her own, younger self. In this richly evocative chronicle, Guillermoprieto describes the remarkable, transforming journey she made as a twenty-year-old, when her love of dance—which had led her from her native Mexico to the New York dance studios of Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, and Twyla Tharp—took her to a job teaching poorly trained but ardent dance students in Cuba. At first unaffected by the revolutionary spirit and the adoration of Castro that pervaded the island, Guillermoprieto slowly fell under the spell of the idealism that buoyed the often destitute lives of the Cuban people. And as she opened herself to what became a complex, galvanizing revolutionary experience, she found, as well, the ideas and ideals that would shape her thinking for the rest of her life. Beautifully written and deeply felt, Dancing with Cuba is a revelatory account of the making of an impassioned political heart and mind.

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  • Dancing With Cuba

    On May 1, 1970, a 20-year-old Mexican-American dancer named Alma Guillermoprieto arrived in Havana to begin a yearlong teaching position at the National School of Dance. The basis for her memoir, "Dancing With Cuba," Guillermoprieto's stay there chan ... (read full critics)

    flakmag published on Tue, 31 Aug 2010

  • Memories of Underdevelopment

    In the epilogue to her new memoir, Dancing with Cuba, Alma Guillermoprieto notes that she became a journalist “more or less by accident” in the 1970s, when she was living in Nicaragua, and Sandinista rebels took up arms against the dictator Anastasio ... (read full critics)

    nybooks published on Sun, 22 Aug 2010

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 290 Pages
  • Edition: 1st
  • ISBN-10: 0375420932
  • ISBN-13: 9780375420931
  • Publisher: Pantheon
  • Pub date: Feb 10, 2004
  • Dimensions: 1484 mm x 968 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Paperback
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