Dancing with the revolution : power politics and privilege in Cuba Elizabeth B. Schwall aligns culture and politics by focusing on an art form that became a darling of the Cuban revolution: dance. In this history of staged performance in ballet modern dance and folkloric dance Schwall analyzes how and why dance artists interacted with republican and later revolutionary politics. Drawing on written and visual archives including intriguing exchanges between dancers and bureaucrats Schwall argues that Cubans dancers used their bodies and ephemeral nonverbal choreography to support and critique political regimes and cultural biases