For defected Cuban ballet dancers, a new world of exile, auditions, and microwaveable food MIAMI — They practice in the back of a dance studio next to a Wendy's restaurant in a strip mall. Six ballet dancers leap across the floor, hidden from view from the mothers watching their daughters in pink leotards in a front room.
June 14, 2013 - Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune
Defected Cuban dancers adjust to U.S., seek work MIAMI (AP) — They practice in the back of a dance studio next to a Wendy's restaurant in a strip mall. Six ballet dancers leap across the floor, hidden from view from the mothers watching their daughters in pink leotards in a front room.
June 14, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
Ballet star says he is being hounded out of Russia's Bolshoi MOSCOW (Reuters) - A top ballet dancer with Russia's Bolshoi Theatre says he is being hounded out over disputes with the management after an acid attack that nearly blinded its artistic director and exposed bitter rivalries over roles, power and pay. Nikolai Tsiskaridze, who has been told he must leave at the end of the month, had been at odds with Bolshoi director Anatoly Iksanov even before ...
June 9, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News