Fernando Alonso [[electronic resource] ] : the father of Cuban ballet / / Toba Singer

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910790575903321
• Autore: Singer Toba
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Gainesville, : University Press of Florida, c2013
• ISBN: 0-8130-4710-2; 0-8130-4625-4; 0-8130-4500-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (264 p.)
• Disciplina: 792.802/8092; B
• Soggetti: Ballet dancers - Cuba
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Part I: Antes (before) -- 1. Always ask why -- 2. Pro-arte musical, Yavorsky, and New York -- 3. Alicia, Fernando, and Laura: giant steps across a changing landscape -- 4. Musicals, Mordkin, Balanchine, and the birth of ballet theatre -- 5. Repertoire, camaraderie, and an étoile -- 6. Challenges and pilgrimages -- 7. Autumn in New York, and a dawning in Havana -- 8. Ballet Theatre, a university of dance, and more . . . -- 9. Ballet Alicia Alonso -- 10. El maestro de maestros, the father of Cuban ballet -- 11. Crafting a curriculum, sculpting a style -- 12. Legends and lessons: Laura and Loipa -- 13. A revolutionary proposal -- 14. Batista's blackmail bid -- 15. The Soviet Union invites the Alonsos -- Part II: Despuis (after) -- 16. Cuban revolution triumphs and invests in ballet! -- 17. Constructing ballet schools, extending the revolution -- 18. International recognition abroad, at home, on film, and in print -- 19. Camagüey: the center of gravity shifts -- 20. Reverence -- Part III: Recuerdos (recollections) -- Introduction -- Aurora Bosch -- Carlos Acosta -- Azari Plisetsky -- Ramona de Sáa -- Lázaro Carreño and Yoel Carreño -- Tania Vergara -- Menia Martínez -- René de Cárdenas -- John White -- Lorena Feijóo and Lupe Calzadilla -- Jorge Esquivel -- Lorena Feijóo and Nelson Madrigal -- Donald Saddler -- Grettel Morejón.
• Sommario/riassunto: Written records of Alonso's work are scarce, yet Toba Singer's quest to spotlight his seminal role in the development of the modern ballet canon yields key material: pre-blockade tapes from Lincoln Center, Spanish-language sources from the Museum of Dance in Havana, and interviews with the ballet master himself alongside a broad range of friends, relatives, and collaborators from throughout his long career, including his ex-wife, Alicia, a famous ballerina in her own right.