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List of prima ballerinas. This is a list of people who have been awarded the title prima ballerina, the second highest title that can be awarded to a ballerina: prima ballerina assoluta being the first. " Prima ballerina literally translates to “first principal dancer” from Italian and, in the United States, is better known as someone who ...
Brian Shaw (dancer) Moira Shearer. Jeremy Sheffield. Antoinette Sibley. Zoltán Solymosi. Ben Stevenson (dancer) Beatriz Stix-Brunell.
Classical, Modern. Lisa Teresita Pacheco Macuja-Elizalde (born October 3, 1964) is a Filipino prima ballerina. [1] [2] In 1984, she became the first foreign soloist to ever join the Kirov Ballet. In the Philippines, she is the Artistic Director and CEO of Ballet Manila and was the Vice-Chairman of the Philippine UNESCO National Commission.
Ballet Philippines (BP) is a ballet company in the Philippines founded in 1969 by Alice Reyes with the support of Eddie Elejar and the Cultural Center of the Philippines. Proficient in both ballet and modern dance, [1] the company synthesizes diverse dance [2] and movement forms into distinctively Filipino contemporary expressions.
B. Matthew Ball (dancer) Leanne Benjamin. Alexander Bennett (dancer) Deanne Bergsma. Svetlana Beriosova. David Blair (dancer) Federico Bonelli. William Bracewell.
The Royal Ballet is one of the few ballet companies in the world to have employed four dancers considered to be prima ballerina assoluta, including three who studied at the Royal Ballet School. The first was Alicia Markova who, having been mentored by Ninette de Valois as a member of Serge Diaghilev 's Ballets Russes , was invited to become one ...
1955–present. Relatives. Baby Barredo (aunt) Lea Salonga (cousin) Gerard Salonga (cousin) Josephine Carmen Imutan Barredo (born November 19, 1951), known professionally as Maniya Barredo, is a Filipina ballet dancer and instructor. She is best known as the first and only Prima ballerina of the Philippines, an honor that was declared in 1978.
Alice Garcia Reyes (born October 14, 1942) [1] [2] is a Filipina dancer, choreographer, teacher, director and producer. The founder (together with Eddie Elejar) of Ballet Philippines, she received since June 20, 2014 from the Philippine President Benigno Aquino III the highest award in the Arts, National Artist of the Philippines. [3]