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  • ABOUT Alma Guillermoprieto

    Journalist and former professional dancer Alma Guillermoprieto has written extensively about Latin America for the British and American press, including The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker. Her books include Dancing with Cuba: A Memoir of the Revolution,The Heart That Bleeds: Latin America Now, and Samba. Her writing has also been widely disseminated in the Spanish-speaking world.

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  • ABOUT Adele Simmons

    Adele Simmons is vice chair of Chicago Metropolis 2020, where she focuses on early childhood education. She also serves as vice chair of the Burnham Centennial Committee, a future-focused initiative engaging over 250 partner organizations region-wide. Simmons was president of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for a decade, overseeing grants of over $1.5 billion, including an annual $25 million program for Chicago.

     

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Click play to listen. Recorded on November 12, 2006.

Alma Guillermoprieto, Latin American correspondent and contributor to The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker, discusses the surprising relationship between war and dance in a conversation with Adele Simmons, vice chairman and senior executive of Chicago Metropolis 2020. Guillermoprieto draws on her writing about war in her classic collection The Heart that Bleeds (1994) and on that about dance in her recent memoir Dancing with Cuba (2004).

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War, Dance, Cuba, Violence, Human Body, Central America, Journalism, Drug Traffic, Foreign Policy

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