Born: December 21, 1920, Havana [Died] October 17, 2019. Cuban ballerina. She studied flamenco in Spain as a child, and studied ballet in Havana after returning to Cuba. In 1937, she followed her future husband Fernando (divorced in the mid-1970s) to the United States and enrolled in the School of American Ballet in New York. After a short break to give birth, she made her stage debut in 1938, and in 1939 joined the Ballet Caravan led by George Balanchine. In 1940, she transferred to the newly established Ballet Theatre (→American Ballet Theatre), left the company due to poor eyesight, but returned in 1943 and played the lead role in Giselle. She then performed in various places with Igor Youskevich, and in 1948 founded the Alicia Alonso Ballet Company (renamed Ballet de Cuba in 1955, ceased activities in 1956) in Cuba with her husband and others, and was also active as a choreographer. As a ballerina, she danced with Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo and other companies from 1955 to 1959. After the Cuban Revolution in 1959, she organized the successor to her own ballet company, the National Ballet of Cuba, and continued to dance while serving as its director. She retired from ballerinaship in 1995. In addition to Giselle, she was especially highly praised for Carmen Suite (→Carmen), choreographed by her brother-in-law Alberto. In 1999, she was awarded the Pablo Picasso Medal by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Alonso |
[生]1920.12.21. ハバナ [没]2019.10.17. ハバナ キューバのバレリーナ。幼少期にスペインでフラメンコを学び,帰国後ハバナでバレエを習う。1937年,のちに夫となるフェルナンド(1970年代半ばに離婚)を追ってアメリカ合衆国に渡り,ニューヨークのアメリカン・バレエ学校に入学。出産のため短期間休んだのち,1938年に舞台デビュー,1939年にジョージ・バランシン率いるバレエ・キャラバンに参加する。1940年設立間もないバレエ・シアター(→アメリカン・バレエ・シアター)に移籍,視力低下のためいったん退団したが 1943年に復帰し,『ジゼル』で主役を務める。その後イゴール・ユースケビッチと組んで各地で公演し,1948年夫らとともにアリシア・アロンソ・バレエ団(1955バレエ・デ・クーバに改称,1956活動停止)をキューバに創設,振付家としても活躍する。バレリーナとしては 1955~59年にバレエ・リュス・ド・モンテカルロなどで踊った。1959年のキューバ革命後は,自身のバレエ団の後身となるキューバ国立バレエ団を組織し,監督を務めるかたわら踊り続けた。1995年バレリーナを引退。『ジゼル』のほか,義弟アルベルト振り付けの『カルメン組曲』(→カルメン)で特に高い評価を得た。1999年国際連合教育科学文化機関 UNESCOのパブロ・ピカソ・メダル受章。 アロンソ
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