Octavio Roca: “As we speak, Cubans are very much in the same position that Russians were in the 70s and 80s. The Russians, when they left the Soviet empire and were going everywhere, they influenced dance tremendously with people like Makarova, and Nureyev and Baryshnikov. … Well, that’s what’s happening right now – it’s happening with the Cubans. … [In] the front ranks, in the middle ranks, and more important as teachers, you find Cubans everywhere.”