In 1970 a young dancer named Alma Guillermoprieto left New York to take a job teaching at Cuba's National School of Dance. For six months, she worked in mirrorless studios (it was considered more revolutionary); her poorly trained but ardent students worked without them but dreamt of greatness. Yet in the midst of chronic shortages and revolutionary upheaval, Guillermoprieto found in Cuba a people whose sense of purpose touched her forever. In this electrifying memoir, Guillermoprieto-now an award-winning journalist and arguably one of our finest writers on Latin America- resurrects a time when dancers and revolutionaries seemed to occupy the same historical stage and even a floor exercise could be a profoundly political act. Exuberant and elegiac, tender and unsparing, Dancing with Cuba is a triumph of memory and feeling.
Sobre o autor(a)
Guillermoprieto, Alma
ALMA GUILLERMOPRIETO nasceu em 1949 no México e é uma das principais jornalistas de sua geração. Trabalhou no Guardian, no Washington Post, foi chefe da sucursal da Newsweek no Brasil e colaboradora das revistas New York Review of Books e New Yorker, para as quais segue escrevendo. Entre os muitos prêmios que recebeu, destacam-se o Maria Moors Cabot (1990) e o Princesa de Asturias de Comunicação e Humanidades (2018). |