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Music & Dance

On Cuban music and dance as I actually hear them — son in the courtyards of Trinidad, timba in the Vedado clubs, reggaeton cubano in the back of shared taxis, and the dancers who carry traditions that the recording industry has never adequately captured.

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The Carlos Acosta Generation: On Cuban Dancers Who Came Back

The Carlos Acosta Generation: On Cuban Dancers Who Came Back

The Cuban ballet diaspora is one of the great underwritten cultural exports of the past forty years. Some of the dancers came…

Yanet Ferrer May 11, 2026 9 min read

What Cuban Reggaeton Sounds Like Right Now (And What the Old Guard Thinks)

What Cuban Reggaeton Sounds Like Right Now (And What the Old Guard Thinks)

I was in the back of an almendrón last August when the driver put on a reggaeton track I had never heard…

Yanet Ferrer May 11, 2026 7 min read