Born in Havana, Cuba, Lecturer Torres holds an M.F.A. in dance with a minor in film from the University of Colorado at Boulder and honed her craft at the Instituto Superior de Artes and Escuela ...
An energetic dance associated with the carnivals of Brazil ... and accompany the acoustic guitar. Bongo drums are an Afro-Cuban percussion instrument consisting of two drums which are held between ...
Samba was born in the 17th century in a popular meeting spot for Afro Brazilians ... 60s and was influenced by the Cuban bolero, also known as the Cuban dance of love. Under Rafael Trujillo's ...
In a seamless flow of brief, percussion-powered scenes alternating between the Guinean dance of Duniya and the Afro-Cuban vocabulary of Arenas, the performance illuminated again and again the ...