"‘Havana Rakatan’ at City Center Offers a History of Cuba" "By SIOBHAN BURKEFEB"

"City Center begins its three-week festival of Spanish and Latin American dance, A Bailar, with “Havana Rakatan,” a lively, rhythmically rich production that condenses 500 years of Cuban musical history into two hours. The show was bound for New York before the United States and Cuba renewed diplomatic ties, but that news should only bolster its feel-good spirit, as embodied by the exceptional dancers of Ballet Rakatan and the live music of the Cuban son band Turquino. Before Wednesday’s performance, a panel of Cuban and Cuban-American artists — including Eduardo Vilaro, the artistic director of Ballet Hispanico — will discuss the countries’ shifting political and cultural relations. (...)" (Lido em:NYT,2015-02-18)