Back to Cuba with José Mateo Ballet Theatre

Ballet dancers and Cuban music will ring through the Old Cambridge Baptist Church this spring. José Mateo Ballet Theatre will feature Back to Cuba, an exploration of Cuban culture through a series of ballet performances set to a treasury of Cuban music.

Founded in 1986, José Mateo Ballet Theatre is a nonprofit professional ballet performance company and school. Born in Cuba, José Mateo moved with his family to New York in the mid-1950s. He studied art history and dance at Princeton and danced with several companies before establishing his dance school in Boston.

Back to Cuba runs from April 4th to the 20th, 2008 at the Sanctuary Theatre at 400 Harvard Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Purchase tickets online.

Photo from the José Mateo Ballet Theatre website.