Alicia Alonso: Her Legacy
Photo Courtesy of Granger/Rex Alicia Alonso, "Swan Lake" (1955) Though the variety of dancers and choreographers who have shaped the history of dance as we know it today created vastly different techniques and specializations in which they could carry out into their dancing careers. Dancers, or more specifically ballerinas such as Alicia Alonso didn’t exactly have such an easy gateway into the enrichment of their ballet career. At just the age of nineteen and being named “prima ballerina”, a title a few achieved so young, Alonso suffered an incident that would lead her to become partially blind for the rest of her career. Though a redirect from the original direction she was advancing her journey as a ballerina on, Alicia Alonso successfully inspired a whole new community for the impaired as she continued to dance effortlessly and beautifully until the age of seventy-five. Alicia Alonso and Igor Youskevitch, Black Swan (1958) The prima ballerina given the name of Alic...