Guillermoprieto, Alma

Alma Guillermoprieto chronicles the six months she spent in Cuba in 1970, discussing how her love for dance led her to take a job teaching poorly trained but dedicated dance students in Cuba, and how her time there led to the development of her own political conscience.

A memoir about Alma Guillermoprieto who left New York in 1970 to teach at Cuba's National School of Dance. Alma taught students in mirrorless studios amidst chronic shortages and revolutionary upheaval. She soon discovered that dance held a historical significance to the people of Cuba.