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The fading grandeur of Cuban ballet
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Erika Kinetz
International Herald Tribune
02-08-2005
As the curtain closed on the final gala of the International Festival of Ballet in Havana in November, Alicia Alonso, the matriarch of Cuban ballet, stood unsteadily at center stage, her arms outstretched toward the raucous adulation of the crowd. Silent and still, a gracious smile chiseled on her face, she seemed less a woman than a monument.She has presided over the biennial festival since 1960, and her power is such that she and perhaps she alone is able to draw the world's best artists to her small, impoverished nation to ...
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