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MATANZAS, Cuba (AP) — 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.

People attend a public danzon dance event at Zocalo Square in Mexico City, capital of Mexico, on Nov. 16, 2025. (Xinhua/Francisco Canedo) People attend a public danzon dance event at Zocalo Square in ...

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Every Saturday of the year, hundreds of couples converge on a shady park in this capital to embrace one another in the slow-moving, genteel dance known as the danzon. Many of the men appear ...

In the world of modern dance, Pina Bausch is indisputably an icon of the postmodern dance movement. The sprawling works she created for Tanztheater Wuppertal redefined what it meant to create a dance.

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. Such a scene at the end ...

Although throughout the entire world the voice of artists seems to have been silenced by the pandemic, in Cuba one musician has never slowed down: Ethiel Failde, director of the Orquesta Failde, great ...

Mexican composer Arturo Marquez is fascinated by the popular Mexican dance called the danzon, and he's based several orchestral pieces on its swaying rhythms. Buffalo Philharmonic conductor JoAnn ...