FEET ON EXHIBITION: The original ‘Mambo King,’ Pedro Aguilar, also known as Cuban Pete, danced with partner Barbara Craddock as artist Erich Padilla painted their moves on canvas at the Byron-Carlyle ...

The Cubans have invaded the United States. Don’t worry. It’s entirely friendly — and artistic. More than five decades after its founding, Danza Contemporanea de Cuba concludes its first U.S. tour ...

Pedro “Cuban Pete” Aguilar, one of the leading mambo dancers of the 1950s, has died. He was 81.The mambo legend passed away Tuesday at the Sinai Plaza Rehabilitation & Nursing Center in Miami, said ...

In its third year, the CubaCaribe Dance Festival fuses folkloric and traditional dances from Cuba and the Caribbean with those of other cultures, including Brazil, as it blends in modern dance ...

From Cuba to the Catskills, the mid-20th century saw the rise of an improbable partnership between American Jews and the mambo. And with its popularity, a Yiddish-inspired term entered the lexicon to ...

From 1974 to the early 1980s, disco ruled the clubs. But in the late 1940s and 1950s, the dance that was significantly more pervasive and influential was the mambo. From the start, the mambo's ...

Pedro “Cuban Pete” Aguilar, one of the leading mambo dancers of the 1950s who performed for presidents and other world leaders and was featured in Life magazine, has died. He was 81. The mambo legend ...

Get your dancing shoes on! French horn virtuoso Sarah Willis follows up her wildly successful Mozart y Mambo album with a foot-tapping sequel. The Berlin Philharmonic's French horn player danced up a ...