Itara

The umbrella title for this collage of three dances from Cuba's Danza del Caribe translates from the West African Yoruba language as 'burning desire.' The company specialises in a fusion of styles – principally Afro-Caribbean and modern dance – that ...

Featuring nine dancers and a six-piece band, Itara (which translates as “burning desire” in the West African language of Yoruba) is a triple-bill of works filled with passion. Earthy moves born out of sowing and reaping sit alongside spiritual ...

Dancer-choreographer Mina Waks hails from an arts-oriented Australian family. Eight years ago, while touring Cuba, she met her future husband, Eduardo Salas, who just happened to be a key member of Danza del Caribe. Waks is now the company's sole ...

The government's initiative to compensate farmers in Itara village of Bindki tehsil misfired when families received compensatory cheques in the name of farmers who have been long dead. The bank, to add to these families' woes, refused to encash these ...

HOWELL – Ten-year-old Stefani Itara of Howell could not see the white mare she rode Sunday, but she could feel the horse's movements below her. Stefani, who is blind and has cognitive delays, competed that morning with about a dozen other children with ...