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Article: Ballet Hispanico: dance with a Latin Manhattan beat.
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- Dance Magazine
- Article date:
- December 1, 1994
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Eight long-limbed dancers undulate across the floor, moving their torsos with the flexibility of cats. Tossing their long, dark hair with abandon, the women throw taunting looks from behind their fans at their suitors, who gently mop sweat from their brows with invisible handkerchiefs. To the romantic rhythms of Cuban songs of the 1950s, and under the direction of distinguished Cuban choreographer Alberto Alonso, the members of Ballet Hispanico are conjuring up Old Havana in a dance created especially for them.
For all those who decry the lack of passion in today's dance, Ballet Hispanico is the answer. The brainchild of Tina Ramirez, this thirteen-member, ...
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