The Kennedy Center and the Metropolitan Opera Present Ballet Nacional de Cuba

Title: The Kennedy Center and the Metropolitan Opera Present Ballet Nacional de Cuba

Author: Terry, Walter, et al.

Publication: [Washington, D.C.]: [John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts], 1978.

Description: Souvenir program for the 1978 North American tour of the Ballet Nacional de Cuba, with director and prima ballerina Alicia Alonso, performing at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. and the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. Contains a history of the Ballet Nacional de Cuba, description of company repertory, and biographies of choregraphers and dancers. Color and black-and-white illustrations. Stapled in pictorial self-wrappers. 12 x 9 inches; [32] pages, including wrapper. Moderate edgewear and foxing. Good to Very Good.

The Ballet Nacional de Cuba was founded by Alicia Alonso, with financial support from Fidel Castro and the Cuban government. The dance company was one of a limited number of organizations permitted by the Cuban government to perform in the United States during the 1970s.