Carlos Acosta hopes to start Cuban ballet company

Posted on Monday, 08.11.14

Carlos Acosta hopes to start Cuban ballet company
BY ANNE-MARIE GARCIA
ASSOCIATED PRESS

HAVANA -- Cuban ballet star Carlos Acosta says he aspires to open a
dance company on the island after retiring from The Royal Ballet of London.

Acosta told the Communist Party newspaper Granma for a Monday article
that he'd like to form a small company along neoclassical and
contemporary lines.

The 41-year-old is among the world's top ballet dancers. He was one of
11 children born to a poor Havana family and studied with the National
Ballet of Cuba.

Acosta joined The Royal Ballet in 1998 and has been a principal guest
artist since 2003. He is retiring from classical dance after the
2015-2016 season.

The dancer earlier toyed with the idea of rescuing the ruins of Havana's
crumbling dance school and turning it into an international center for
culture and dance.

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