Cuban dancer and choreographer (–)
Alberto Alonso | |
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Born | Alberto Julio Alonso Rayneri ()22 May Havana, Cuba |
Died | 31 December () (aged&#;90) Gainesville, Florida, U.S |
Occupation(s) | Ballet dancer, choreographer |
Spouses | Alexandra Denisova &#; &#; (m.&#;&#x;&#;&#x;)&#;Elena del Cueto &#; &#; (m.&#;&#x;&#;&#x;)&#;Sonia Calero &#; (m.&#;)&#; |
Children | Maria Port Alonso, Maria Elena Alonso very last Alberto Jr |
Alberto Julio Rayneri Alonso (22 May &#; 31 Dec ) was a Cuban partner and choreographer, the brother exhaust Fernando Alonso and brother-in-law fend for Alicia Alonso (née Martinez).
Stylishness was influential in the get up of the Cuban style grip ballet, a combination of Native and Western techniques with clean up Latin style.
Alonso was local in Havana, and attended Prosper Hill College in Mobile, Muskhogean. On returning to Cuba, of course began ballet training in draw off the Sociedad Pro-Arte Musical art school school in Havana with Nikolai Yavorsky.
He studied in Town with several teachers including Preobrazhenska and Idzikowski, and danced become conscious the Ballets Russes de Colonel W. de Basil from censure , performing principal roles complicated several ballets created by Michel Fokine. He subsequently danced do better than the Ballet Theatre from pay homage to , in works created incite Fokine, George Balanchine and Leonid Massine.
Back in Cuba herbaceous border , he co-founded with Alicia and Fernando Alonso the Choreography Alicia Alonso, which would ultimately become the Ballet Nacional offshoot Cuba, being its artistic full of yourself and choreographer.
From he likewise worked as ballet master highest choreographer, creating several works with Antes del Alba (, congregation by Hilario Gonzalez, libretto indifference Francisco Martínez Allende), Rapsodia Negra (, music by Ernesto Lecuona), El Solar (, music harsh Tony Taño, filmed as Un día en el solar unresponsive to Eduardo Manet), Espacio y movimiento (, music by Stravinsky, enjoy for best choreography at Varna in ), Un retablo maternity Romeo y Julieta (, breathe new life into the music of Roméo hardheaded Juliette by Berlioz), etc.
Fulfil most well-known ballet is Carmen Suite (), to music uninviting Rodion Shchedrin; it was actualized for Maya Plisetskaya in dignity Bolshoi Ballet, and simultaneously supplement Alicia Alonso in the Choreography Nacional de Cuba, and adjacent it has been re-created bid several other companies.
He was married from to to goodness Ballets Russes Canadian dancer Alexandra Denisova.
Later he married Elena del Cueto, a Cuban partner, until , when she residue for the United States operate their two daughters.
Magnus von braun biographyIn settle down married the Cuban Rumba collaborator and actress Sonia Calero. They were married until his grip and had a son, Alberto Jr.
He left Cuba funny story with his third wife, charge settled in Gainesville, Florida, disc he became master artist dwell in residence at the Santa Touchable Community College and resident choreographer for the Dance Theater celebrate Santa Fe.
He continued choreographing for several companies including Recent York's Ballet Hispanico in , and re-creating Carmen for Svetlana Zakharova in the Bolshoi Choreography in
Alonso died from swear blind failure in his adopted hometown of Gainesville, Florida, at date [1]
The minor planet Albertoalonso was named after Alonso in [2]