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Dance Cuba: Dreams of Flight Vibrant music of jazz musician Chucho Valdes encompasses Cynthia Newport's stunning, moving, insightful, informative, uplifting, colorful, 95-minute documentary that focuses on the career of talented principal Cuban ballet dancer Carlos Acosta of the Cuban National Ballet in Havana turned international star, the enormous contributions of legendary dancers Alicia and Alberto Alonso to the excellence of the Cuban ballet and their founding of the National Ballet of Cuba in 1948, and showcases the artistic commonality in the language of dance across cultures through archival film footage and photographs, clips from ballets such as Swan Lake and Tocororo, and interview snippets with Washington Ballet Company artistic director Septimi Webre, choreographer Trey McIntyre, dancers (Laura Urgelles, Victor Gil, and Lorna Feijoo), dance instructor Silvia Rodriguez, New York Ballet Theater founder Donald Saddler, dance historian Miguel Cabrera, and Acosta's father Pedro and sister Marilyn).
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