{"id":974,"date":"2008-06-15T11:02:46","date_gmt":"2008-06-15T10:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=974"},"modified":"2008-06-15T11:02:46","modified_gmt":"2008-06-15T10:02:46","slug":"cuban-dance-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=974","title":{"rendered":"Cuban dance evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I went on holiday to Cuba [my acccount <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Cuba.html\">here<\/a>], I&#8217;ve been more than usually interested in all things Cuban. So I recently had a great night at a performance by the Buena Vista Social Club [my blog posting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/2008\/05\/cuban_music_in_hammersmith.html\">here<\/a>].<br \/>\nLast night, together with my wife Vee and brother-in-law Derek, I attended a show of Cuban dance called &#8220;Havana Rakatan&#8221; at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peacocktheatre.com\/\">Peacock Theatre<\/a> in central London. The show involves a 15-strong troupe of dancers called Ballet Rakatan supported by an eight-strong Cuban son band called Turquino.<br \/>\nThe show is a walk through the history of dance styles and influences on the island from colonial times to modern day and it is exciting, exhilerating and exuberant &#8211; concluding with dancing in the aisles. The &#8220;Indepedent&#8221; newspaper had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/theatre\/reviews\/havana-rakatan-peacock-theatre-london-451547.html\">an enthusiastic review<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I went on holiday to Cuba [my acccount here], I&#8217;ve been more than usually interested in all things Cuban. So I recently had a great night at a performance by the Buena Vista Social Club [my blog posting here]. Last night, together with my wife Vee and brother-in-law Derek, I attended a show of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}