Fernando Alonso (dancer)

Fernando Alonso
Born
Fernando Juan Evangelista Eugenio de Jesús Alonso Rayneri

(1914-12-17)17 December 1914
Died27 July 2013(2013-07-27) (aged 98)
Havana, Cuba
OccupationBallet
Spouse
(m. 1937; div. 1975)
Children1
Career
Former groupsAmerican Ballet Theatre (1940–1948),
Cuban National Ballet (1948–2013)

Fernando Alonso (17 December 1914[1] – 27 July 2013) was a Cuban ballet dancer. He is a co-founder of the Cuban National Ballet and was part of the American Ballet Theatre company between 1940 until 1948. He received the Prix Benois de la Danse for lifetime achievement in 2008.

  1. ^ Roca, Octavio; Alonso, Alicia; Baryshnikov, Mikhail (2010). Cuban Ballet. Gibbs Smith. p. 48. ISBN 978-1-4236-0758-8.