ALBERTO ALONSO From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: February 20, 2008| Author: | Copyright 2008 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

National Ballet of Cuba co-founder

Best-known for his sensual Carmen ballet, commissioned in 1967 by the Bolshoi prima ballerina assoluta Maya Plisetskaya, Alberto Alonso was also a co-founder of the company that became the National Ballet of Cuba.

He was born in Havana, but at an early age moved with his parents to Mobile, Alabama, where he attended Springhill College. On the family's return to Havana, Alberto began ballet training at the Sociedad Pro-Arte Musical, which his older brother, Fernando, and Fernando Alonso's future wife, Alicia Martinez, also attended.

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