Vamos Cuba! review – tedious, cliched and not remotely sexy

Sadler’s Wells, London
Nilda Guerra’s feeble attempt to portray the spirit of her country reduces the vibrant history of Cuban dance to a parade of tourist stereotypesCuba raises more home-grown dance talent than almost anywhere on the planet, so it takes a peculiar level of ineptitude to produce a show as tedious as Nilda Guerra’s latest production. Vamos Cuba! is a follow up to Guerra’s popular hit Havana Rakatan. Yet while that show had verve and conviction to compensa