The aim of this article is to explore shifts in the role of Cuban private sector within the broader context of tourism economies. Based on ethnographic data collected on two types of private businesses offering their services to tourism-rooms for rent and dance schools-we explore how this formerly peripheral sector of the economy became key in the period of Cuba's transition to market socialism.We explore processes of its internationalization and professionalization while it remains heavily informed by subsistence economies and navigates through shifting regulations of the ideologically socialist state.

The article looks at vernacular understandings of sugar as Cuban heritage in light of ongoing processes of westernization of Cuban foodways and body image. In doing so, I employ the notion of 'agnostic heritage' (Brumann, 2014) and the proposition of a 'third historicity.' The latter term includes the analysis of people's heritage experiences and beliefs, focusing on changes in local understandings of sugar as heritage, its ambivalence, and, at times, even stigmatization in relation to newly emerging canons and ideals governing body image. This article is based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted among female dancers in Havana's private schools over the course of approximately ten months from 2015 to 2018.

Cet article explore la danse comme une ressource culturelle qui entraîne des mobilités et permet aux Cubains impliqués dans la scène salsa de poursuivre des objectifs personnels et professionnels. Il examine comment ces mobilités contribuent à remodeler les attitudes à l’égard du travail, de la danse, et de la danse comme travail sur l’île, alors que les pratiques corporelles s’inscrivent dans des imaginaires largement circulatoires. Les espoirs de carrières internationales (réussies) dans la danse émergent à l’intersection de différents types de mobilités, les danseurs cubains adoptant des rôles multiples lors de leurs rencontres avec les touristes de la danse. Par conséquent, leurs possibilités d’adaptation deviennent des ressources supplémentaires de professionnalisation à Cuba ou à l’étranger, reconfigurant ce faisant les scènes locales de la salsa.

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