The jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader helped lay the foundations of salsa before expanding into rock, funk, and ...

The award-winning pianist, bandleader and composer was influential in the New York salsa scene and won the first Grammy in a ...

Ramón Ramos Alayo, artistic director and choreographer of at Alayo Dance Company, first came to San Francisco as a guest teacher of Cuban dance in 1996. A year later he moved from Cuba to the Bay ...

“No one in Buffalo was consistently teaching rueda, so this became an opportunity to grow the community’s knowledge of Cuban dance and music,” Pitts says. Aceto hopes the practice group encourages ...

The festival kicks off Saturday afternoon with a powerhouse Cuban dance party featuring Jesús Díaz y Su Habana Afro-Cuban Ensemble. An Oakland resident since the mid-1980s, the Havana-born ...

A native son of the Bronx, Palmieri was a crucial innovator in New York’s Afro-Caribbean music history. The pianist, composer and bandleader has died at 88.

In what was considered an audacious move in 2012, Osnel Delgado and Daileidys Carrazana left the Cuban national modern dance company, Danza Contemporánea de Cuba, to form their own company, with ...

The Afro-Cuban All Stars turned their Royce Hall concert Tuesday into an usher’s nightmare. The dazzling 17-member orchestra had the entire audience on its feet, with couples dancing in the ...

MATANZAS, Cuba — A man in a white guayabera approaches a woman and stretches out his hand, palm up, inviting her to dance. She stands up and waves her fan. On the dance floor, they get closer.

As "Dance Cuba: Dreams of Flight," a documentary about the trip, makes clear, it was a highly charged adventure. Webre's troupe became the first American ballet company in 40 years to dance on the ...