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	ALICIA ALONSO
		Eminent figure of the cultural life, Alicia Alonso has been invested with the Doctor Honoris Causa degree of the University of Havana, the Institute of Arts of Cuba, the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain, and the University of Guadalajara, Mexico.
		Alicia Alonso was a key player in what would become the American Ballet Theatre and New York City Ballet, starred in Broadway musicals with Ethel Merman, learned Les Sylphides from Mikhail Fokine himself and was the inspiration for masterpieces by George Balanchine and Antony Tudor.
		And that Alicia Alonso's shrewd co-production ventures with European theaters such as Venice's La Fenice and Bologna's Teatro Communale have given the Cuban ballet access to economic resources otherwise nonexistent in Cuba since the fall of the Soviets.
	alocubano.com /alicia_alonso.htm (3072 words)

	Alicia Alonso and the Ballet Nacional de Cuba - Havana Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Alonso was a part of the rich ferment that gave birth to both American Ballet Theater and the New York City Ballet, and she worked with the greats, including Agnes de Mille, Antony Tudor and Jerome Robbins.
		Alonso's choreographic process is similarly vague: she explains her vision to one of her minions, who then builds the work on the company.
		Alicia is not only one of the world's greatest dancers, but a great lady as well,her influence in Cuban culture will be felt long after she is gone.
	havanajournal.com /culture_comments/3001_0_3_0_M (2065 words)

	Alonso, Alicia on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Alonso danced in Broadway musicals before becoming a soloist with several leading companies, including the American Ballet Theatre, in 1939.
		Alonso suffered a detached retina at 19, built a stellar career in spite of her failing vision, and, although almost blind, continued to direct her company into the 21st cent.
		Alicia Alonso: estilo y espiritu de una leyenda: la prima ballerina de Cuba ha cautivado a los espectadores de todo el mundo mientras formaba una nueva generacion de bailarines clasicos.(Entrevista)(Biografía)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/A/Alonso-A1.asp (358 words)

	Artbeat Chicago \| Alicia Alonso (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Alicia: Dancing for a human being, when they sit in an audience, is a wonderful experience.
		Alicia: Well, in the first place, being a ballet dancer is a very dedicated career, because your body doesn't want to work every day.
		Alicia: It's a wonderful outlet for me, especially since I cannot dance anymore, through my choreography, through my knowledge, to share with others, to put the steps together, and see how they work out, and give them meaning that I wanted to say.
	wttw.com /artbeat/alonso.html (985 words)

	Alicia Alonso (b. 1921) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Alicia Ernestina de la Caridad dei Cobre Martinez Hoya was born in Havana in 1921.
		When Alicia arrived in New York City she studied with Anatole Vilzak and Ludmilla Shollar at the School of American Ballet, and later with Vera Volkova in London.
		Alicia Alonso was afflicted throughout her career with an eye defect, and is partially blind.
	michaelminn.net /andros/biographies/alonso_alicia.htm (477 words)

	Ballet Nacional de Cuba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Alicia Alonso, prima ballerina assoluta and general director of the Ballet Nacional de Cuba, is one of the most outstanding personalities in the ballet history and is the top figure of classic ballet in the realm of Iberian-American culture.
		In 1948, Alonso's interest in developing the ballet in Cuba led her to found in Havana the ballet Alicia Alonso, now the Ballet Nacional de Cuba.
		At present, she is the head of the Alicia Alonso Foundation, with headquarter in the Spanish capital.
	www.balletcuba.cu /ingles/biografialiciaing.htm (578 words)

	Ballet Nacional de Cuba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Alonso recovered all the grateful elements as original, and she followed a rigorous approach to fix the style of this ballet, besides underlining the narrative coherence of the plot.
		Alicia Alonso's choreographic work with Swan Lake has been intimately linked to her acting as the characters' of Odette brilliant interpreter and Odile, and she had a long purification process and deep study of both characters that she understood several decades.
		Alicia Alonso likes of mentioning the statement of Stravinski that the tradition is an alive force that encourages to the present.
	www.balletcuba.cu /ingles/repertoriomuestraing.asp?codepage=20 (992 words)

	Alicia Alonso's breathtaking 'Coppelia' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Alicia Alonso famously did this with the heartbreaking "Giselle," and she did it again with the rambunctious "Coppelia." Her own Ballet Nacional de Cuba returned to Zellerbach Hall with "Coppelia" this weekend, and this truly was dancing for the ages.
		Alonso's involvement with "Giselle" is legend, but she in fact danced Swanilda in "Coppelia" first, in Nikolai Yavorski's 1935 production in Havana when she was only 15.
		Alonso's historically informed reconstruction of the original 1870 Arthur Saint-Leon and later Marius Petipa versions of "Coppelia" carries the unmistakable post-Romantic line and flavor that marked the Fokine revolution in the early 20th century.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/10/15/DD89808.DTL (808 words)

	USA CUBA TRAVEL: BALLET - PRO DANZA
		Laura Alonso, the daughter of world famous ballerina Alicia Alonso and famous teacher and coach Fernando Alonso is herself known as a teacher, coach, and expert at staging the renowned classics.
		Alonso has served as a coach, jury member and teacher at the Jackson International Ballet Competition and as a jury member of the Concours International de Dance de Paris, France 1998, the Alicia Alonso International Ballet Competition, and other competitions around the world.
		Alonso's twenty-five year performing career has included soloist work in all of the traditional classics and today she travels around the world teaching and staging the classics for professional and pre professional companies alike.
	www.usacubatravel.com /alonso.htm (376 words)

	ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Alonso Alicia
		Alonso, Alicia (1921- ), Cuban ballerina and teacher, founder and director of an important ballet company in Cuba.
		Markova, Dame Alicia, professional name of Lillian Alicia Marks (1910-2004), British ballerina, who was an important figure in both modern British...
		Larrocha, Alicia de (1923- ), Spanish pianist, known particularly for her masterful performances of Spanish music.
	au.encarta.msn.com /Alonso_Alicia.html (78 words)

	Cubans 2001 - Ballet
		Her name was really Alicia Marks, but she had added "ova" at the end to make it sound more Russian —thanks to Diaghilev, everyone who was anyone in the ballet world of the time wanted to be Russian.
		Alicia can now barely walk, but in Cuba her admirers remember her performances like they were yesterday.
		Alicia now allows them to take contracts in foreign companies, but as she did 50 years ago, they must send part of their earnings to fund the ballet.
	journalism.berkeley.edu /projects/cubans2001/story-ballet.html (5330 words)

	Ballet Talk -> Ruminations
		Alonso was known for her rock-solid balances, dazzling footwork and fast, light floor skimming bourrees.
		Alonso and Youskevitch were the definitive "Giselle" of their generation; they performed the ballet for eleven years.
		In it he said: "Miss Alonso had long been a first-rate "Giselle", but with the passing of seasons she had deepened the colors of the role, broadened its range, and found justifications for all its bursts of bravura.
	ballettalk.invisionzone.com /index.php?showtopic=18247 (1422 words)

	Dance: Although no longer dancing, Alicia Alonso puts her imprint on Cuban ballet / The Seattle Times - Cuba News / ...
		While Alonso is no longer dancing the lead role, Seattle will have the rare opportunity to see her version of the 1841 ballet (original choreography by Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot, modified by Marius Petipa) this weekend when Ballet Nacional de Cuba makes a stop here on a goodwill tour of the U.S. and Canada.
		In her version of "Giselle," Alonso has the corps de ballet engage in the kind of fast footwork for which she herself was famous.
		Alonso first started dancing when her father, an army officer, was sent to Spain to buy horses for Cuba.
	www.cubanet.org /CNews/y99/feb99/22e20.htm (611 words)

	Alicia Alonso
		Alicia Alonso, órbita de una leyenda (Autores del siglo XX)
		Alicia and her Ballet Nacional de Cuba: An illustrated biography of Alicia Alonso
		Alicia Alonso, "prima ballerina assoluta": Imagen de una plenitud
	www.veryhappening.com /things/alicia%5Falonso (85 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Alicia Alonso
		Alonso, Alicia, born in 1921, Cuban ballerina and teacher, founder and director of an important ballet company in Cuba.
		Berruguete, Alonso (circa 1488-1561), Spanish sculptor and painter, considered by his contemporaries the outstanding artist of Renaissance Spain....
		Cano, Alonso (1601-67), Spanish painter, sculptor, and architect, who was one of the foremost masters of Spanish baroque art.
	encarta.msn.com /Alicia_Alonso.html (111 words)

	CUBA -LA JIRIBILLA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Alicia Alonso, y junto a ella Fernando, se radicó en Nueva York, en tanto Alberto Alonso ingresó como bailarín profesional en los famosos Ballets Russes.
		Estas versiones, creadas casi todas por Alicia Alonso, sobre la base de los elementos coreográficos originales heredados de la tradición, han merecido elogios tanto de la crítica como de los artistas del ballet y los públicos en todo el mundo.
		Alberto Alonso tuvo una larga trayectoria en la danza escénica cubana, con una labor coreográfica encaminada, desde sus inicios, a la asimilación de las raíces folklóricas autóctonas, en una voluntad de integrar sus elementos más característicos al lenguaje universal y contemporáneo, sobre la base de la técnica clásica.
	www.lajiribilla.cu /2004/n156_04/156_20.html (2967 words)

	GRANMA INTERNAtIONAL DIGITAL, CUBA ENGLISH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		PRIMA ballerina assoluta Alicia Alonso launched the 15th Footprints of Spain 2003 Festival with her characteristic good humor: "We’re going to start with 15, a fascinating number.
		Alonso affirmed that "certain times and certain people cannot take away what we carry inside us" and with regards to the Festival stated: ‘we will continue to go ahead with it".
		Alonso recalled that one of her ancestors on her father’s side, Fernando de la Maza y Arredondo, conquered a part of Florida for the Spanish crown and in return was awarded part of this land for services granted.
	www.granma.cu /ingles/abril03/lun28/17alicia.html (854 words)

	Details for news
		Alonso began experiencing abdominal pain and dizziness when she was 15.
		Alonso found out that her donor was ready, and decided to have her transplant in December.
		Alonso is Hispanic, which made the match between her and Foster even more unlikely, Luzins said, because some antigens - the components that need to match for marrow transplants - are specific to particular ethnic groups.
	www.shands.org /news/archive/news_details.asp?ID=150 (895 words)

	Revolutionary Moves / L.A. Times - Cuba News / Noticias - CubaNet News
		Alicia Ernestina de la Caridad del Cobre Martinez y del Hoyo began studying ballet (against the wishes of her father, an army veterinarian) in the same building that is now home to her company.
		Alonso returned to Cuba as a performer as early as the '40s, and with Fernando founded the National Ballet in 1948 (it celebrates its 50th anniversary in October).
		Alonso may be a National Hero of Labor and a state figure—the duty-free carts on Cubana airlines even sell Alicia Alonso perfume—but there are some inside Cuba willing to say that it's time for her second act to end.
	www.cubanet.org /CNews/y98/jan98/12e93.htm (3457 words)

	French culture \| performing arts \| Ballet Nacional de Cuba 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Alicia Alonso, Choreographer and General Director of the Ballet Nacional de Cuba, is one of the most famous personalities of ballet in our century.
		In 1950 the Escuela Nacional de Ballet Alicia Alonso was established.
		Alicia Alonso is considered by dance critics as one of the greatest ballerinas of all times.
	www.frenchculture.org /perfo/events/01balletcuba.html (1498 words)

	Class with Alicia Alonso, Prima Ballerina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Prima Ballerina Alicia Alonso had gained her fame in New York in the 1940's as a founding member of American Ballet Theatre and her star ascended and continued to ascend through the rest of the century.
		In 1977 the San Diego Ballet extended an invitation to Prima Ballerina Alicia Alonso to perform with the company at the Civic Theatre in San Diego.
		Because of the travel restrictions, the company dancers had never seen the legendary Alicia Alonso, but everyone was steeped in her fame.
	www.ballet.co.uk /magazines/yr_03/nov03/ab_working_with_alicia_alonso.htm (1131 words)

	UNESCO - Biography of Alicia Alonso
		Alonso, who is director and choreographer of the Cuban National Ballet, was born in Havana, where she began studying dance in 1931.
		She was keen to foster ballet in Cuba and in 1948 founded the Alicia Alonso Ballet Company, now the Cuban National Ballet, which she still directs.
		Her choreographies of great classics (such as Giselle, Grand Pas de Quatre, La Bella Durmiente del Bosque and La Fille mal gardée) are world-renowned and have been staged by the Ballets of the Operas of Paris, Vienna and Prague, as well as the Ballet San Carlo in Naples and Milan's La Scala.
	portal.unesco.org /en/ev.php-URL_ID=9855&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html (304 words)

	illume productions
		The 82-year-old Alicia is a founder and Director General of the Ballet Nacional de Cuba.
		Despite her blindness, Alicia defied her doctors and continued to dance.
		After the Revolution, Castro welcomed Alicia and her then husband Fernando, a pivotal figure in his own right, and financed their ballet company.
	www.illumeproductions.org /dancecuba/characters (301 words)

	Teatro Nacional dominicano rinde homenaje a Alicia Alonso (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Tony Raful, secretario de Cultura, destacó que el homenaje a Alicia Alonso se corresponde con el cariño entrañable y la admiración devota hacia uno de los exponentes más altos de la Cultura cubana, y es también reconocimiento al pueblo cubano y sus estrechas relaciones con República Dominicana.
		Alicia llegó la víspera a Santo Domingo con el Ballet Nacional de Cuba, que se presentará el próximo día 28 en el Gran Teatro del Cibao y los días 30 y 31 en el Teatro Nacional, en la capital dominicana, con un programa diverso que incluye obras clásicas y modernas.
		Interrogada sobre la trayectoria de la compañía que dirige y el nivel mundial alcanzado pese a tratarse de un país pequeño de pocos recursos, Alicia Alonso estimó que es un ejemplo más de que los ideales existen y pueden lograrse.
	www.granma.cubaweb.cu /2003/05/26/cultura/articulo04.html (440 words)

	Latino Leaders: The National Magazine of the Successful American Latino: The end is near for Alicia Alonso - Letters - ...
		Alicia Alonso, as opposed to many very talented people, chose to remain in Cuba and be a part of the exploitation that has taken place for 44 years now.
		While I am sure that Alonso has enjoyed many long nights of glitz and glamour and the very best foods and wine available to the ruling party, 11 million Cubans have gone to bed hungry, wondering if they will be arrested in the morning for expressing their opposing views.
		Alonso was a great dancer who embraced the communist government and its dictator.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0PCH/is_1_4/ai_113053538 (449 words)

	Alicia ALONSO: BIOGRAFÍA.
		Alicia ALONSO: BIOGRAFÍA. Prima Ballerina Assoluta y Directora del Ballet Nacional, constituye la figura cimera de la danza clásica en el ámbito de la cultura iberoamericana y al mismo tiempo una de las personalidades más relevantes en la historia del arte y de la danza.
		Entre 1955 y 1959 Alicia Alonso actuó también cada año como estrella invitada del Ballet Ruso de Montecarlo.
		Durante varias décadas Alicia Alonso realizó anualmente giras por diversos países de Europa, Asia, América Latina, y en Estados Unidos, Canadá y Australia.
	www.portalatino.com /lanzamientos/AliciaAlonso/htm/alicia12.htm (857 words)

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