RADAR
JENNY GILBERT
ONCE, THE MENTION of Cuba brought to mind cigars and communism. Today, the country is just as widely known for dance—for its salsa, its rumba and, increasingly, its national hero Carlos Acosta. Acosta is the ballet star whose unlikely rise from a boyhood of petty crime on the backstreets of Havana spawned a book, a stage show and numerous TV documentaries. In his 17 years at the U.K.’s Royal Ballet, Acosta never stopped pining for his native island.