alicia alonso: LEGEND OF SPIRIT AND STYLE

From: Americas | Date: July 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

CUBA'S PRIMA BALLERINA HAS ENTHRALLED AUDIENCES WORLDWIDE WHILE SHAPING A NEW, DISTINCT GENERATION OF CLASSICAL DANCERS

"I admire many dance companies, but actually love comparatively few. Among those I love is the Ballet Nacional de Cuba," Dance Magazine's senior critic Clive Barnes confessed in his review of the troupe's New York performances last fall. Like Barnes, ballet-goers everywhere applaud the silken bravura of the dancers whom Alicia Alonso, ballet legend extraordinaire and the Ballet's founder and general director, has fashioned into Latin America's premier classical company. Now ...

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