'Cuban Nijinsky' is latest defection Dance

From: International Herald Tribune | Date: September 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Erika Kinetz
International Herald Tribune
09-01-2005
In early July, Rolando Sarabia, 23, one of the Ballet Nacional de Cuba's leading dancers, sneaked across the border into the United States in the way, he said, that so many Cubans do: ''Walking, walking, walking.'' His is the latest in a wave of defections that have hit the brilliant but beleaguered Cuban national ballet company since 2002. His departure, first reported by the Spanish newspaper El Pams, will be keenly felt in Cuba. Critics have called him the ''Cuban Nijinsky'' and compared him to the young Mikhail Baryshnikov. A company ...

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