On the dance floor, they get closer. Such a scene at the end of the 19th century in Cuba was scandalous in some circles. It was also a new musical genre, the danzon.

Renowned Cuban musician Manuel González Hernández, widely known as Manolín, the Salsa Doctor, paid tribute to his fellow ...

In a seamless flow of brief, percussion-powered scenes alternating between the Guinean dance of Duniya and the Afro-Cuban vocabulary of Arenas, the performance illuminated again and again the ...