Cuban dancer Carlos Acosta gives an interview as he attends the film premiere for "Yuli", a biopic about his life, during Havana's International Film Festival in Havana on Dec. 7, 2018.

Yuli: The Carlos Acosta Story Part doc, part dance-based recreation, this sorta-biopic of Cuban ballet genius Carlos Acosta is an artistic experiment that comes off.

BBC Films is set to produce a biopic of Cuban ballet superstar Carlos Acosta from “I, Daniel Blake” writer Paul Laverty. Germany’s The Match Factory will handle worldwide sales on the ...

Acosta, now 35, will play himself in the movie, which will be filmed in Spanish and English, and will shoot in Cuba. He is producing alongside veteran Rosa Bosch (“Buena Vista Social Club”).

The Cuban ballet dancer took the world by storm when he won the Prix de Lausanne at the age of 16. But his story is also one of hardship and isolation. Ahead of the release of Yuli, the film about his ...

Carlos Acosta broke boundaries and became the first black Principal dancer of The Royal Ballet. He was the Company’s Principal Guest Artist for 17 years, and retired from classical ballet in 2016.

The film follows Acosta - nicknamed Yuli by his father - from growing up on the streets of his native Cuba, through his time at the country’s National Dance School, to performing at London’s ...

Carlos as a child (played by newcomer Edlison Manuel Olbera Núñez) is easy to love. The boy crackles with life (he hates ballet!), and the racism that all but splits his family down the middle ...

Carlos Acosta has been awarded the 2018 Critics' Circle Award for Services to Theatre. The dancer and choreographer this year became only the third dancer to have won the award since it first started ...

BBC Films is set to produce a biopic of Cuban ballet superstar Carlos Acosta from “I, Daniel Blake” writer Paul Laverty. Germany’s The Match Factory will handle worldwide sales on the ...