Dance entertainment in Caribbean Islands
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Teatro Tapia
The Teatro Tapia on the south side of Plaza Colón is an intimate neoclassical theater designed in the Italian style with three-tiered boxes and an elegantly decorated lobby. Dating from 1832 and named after the so-called ‘Father of Puerto Rican literature, ’ Alejandro Tapia y Rivera, the building has long acted as a nexus for the island’s rich cultural life and has hosted big names from the world of opera, stage and ballet from around the world. The theater was restored extensively in 1949 and then again in 1976, 1997 and 2007. Experts today rate it as the oldest free-standing drama stage in the US and its territories.
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Nuyorican Café
If you came to Puerto Rico in search of authentic salsa music, the legend still lives on at the Nuyorican Café. San Juan’s hottest nightspot is a congenial hub of live Latino sounds and hip-gyrating locals that easily emulates its famous New York namesake. Stuffed into an alley off Fortaleza, opposite a nameless drinking hole, you get everything from poetry readings to six-piece salsa bands that squish onto the stage here. And you’ll meet people too – the Nuyorican is refreshingly devoid of pretensions or dance snobbery. Things usually get interesting around 11pm-ish.
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Casa de la Música
One of Trinidad’s and Cuba’s classic venues, this casa is an alfresco affair that congregates on the sweeping staircase beside the Iglesia Parroquial off Plaza Mayor. A good mix of tourists and locals take in the 10pm salsa/dance show here. Alternatively, full-on salsa concerts are held in the casa’s rear courtyard (also accessible from Juan Manuel Márquez; cover CUC$2).
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Foco Cultural Tumba Francesa
Ask about practice sessions at the studios of the Conjunto Folklórico de Oriente and the Foco Cultural Tumba Francesa at General Banderas. Traditional dancing also takes place at other focos culturales (cultural shows) around town most evenings.
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Cabildo San Pedro Lucumí
Cultural activities happen at this friendly Afro-Caribbean association, HQ of the Compañía Folklórica Onilé. Drop in on Sunday for some dancing and drumming.
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Casa de la Cultura
The best place for the traditional stuff with concerts, poetry, dance etc. The action spills out into the street on weekend nights.
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Ballet Folklórico Cutumba
This internationally known Afro-Cuban folkloric dance group was founded 1960 and currently appears at Teatro Oriente. If you're in Santiago de Cuba on a weekend, don't miss Cutumba's exciting café teatro, at 21:30 every Saturday or at 10:30 for their Sunday morning dance show. They perform such dances as the tumba francesa, columbia, gagá, guaguancó, yagüetó, tajona and conga oriental. It's one of the finest programs of its kind in Cuba.
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