Carlos Acosta Plans To Settle In Cuba, Start His Own Dance Company

DANCE Posted: August 12, 2014 1:47 pm

The Royal Ballet star “told the Communist Party newspaper Granma for a Monday article that he’d like to form a small company along neoclassical and contemporary lines” following his retirement from the ballet stage at the end of the 2015-16 season.

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