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There was a book written in 1999 by John Loomis entitled Revolution of Forms - Cuba's Forgotten Art Schools, and subsequently a documentary film that was made in 2011 by Alysa Nahmias and Benjamin Murray called Unfinished Spaces. It is about the history of Cuba’s National Arts School, which included the national school for dance.

An introduction to the film from the Atlantic magazine:
In 1961 Fidel Castro and Che Guevara commissioned three young architects to build Cuba's National Arts School on the grounds of a country club in Havana. In the minds of its creators, it was to be the most modern and innovative academy of its kind. But before its completion, the ideals of the revolution changed, halting the project and sending the architects into exile. Forty years later, Castro invited them back to oversee the completion of the school they left behind—a story chronicled in Alysa Nahmias and Ben Murray’s forthcoming documentary, Unfinished Spaces. Here one of the architects, Ricardo Porro, shares an early sketch for the academy’s School of Modern Dance, his vision for the building, and the story of what went wrong.

How anyone could know the history of this architecture, perhaps the best post revolution architecture in Cuba, and not want it completed by the original architects and designers (who are still living) is baffling, disturbing and tragic.