Ballet v machismo: the male Latin American dancers challenging old-fashioned ideas of manhood by Naomi Larsson Piñeda

From Cuba to Peru and beyond, Santiago Barreiro captures the dancers who have upended their countries' ideas of masculinity while pursuing their dreams When he was just eight years old, Roberto Rodriguez remembers his aunt taking him out of the park where he often played with friends to audition for the ballet school in Havana, Cuba's capital. He didn't want to go. Ballet was for girls, not boys. It's a cliche that h…

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