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Ballet Alicia Alonso Dance Foundation.
The Company claims heritage spaces taking as its setting emblematic squares and buildings of the National Heritage.
Heir to the traditions of the Cuban ballet school, composes its repertoire with works of the most diverse dance styles and techniques, coexisting the classical romantic tradition with contemporary works.
The quality of their productions and the choreographic and interpretive level are heirs of the cuban ballet school. Their staging stands out for a solid design of the space and great beauty in the changing rooms. Supported by the best lighting, costume and set designers, the Ballet also includes audiovisual elements and a high technical-artistic level in each of its performances.
The Alicia Alonso Dance Foundation Ballet was founded in 1997 under the General Directorate of Alicia Alonso with the co-direction of Alberto García Castaño, who together with outstanding Maîtres of the National Ballet of Cuba and the support of other national and international figures have managed to achieve forward this young Company.
Prestigious personalities from world dance have contributed to the consolidation of the project. Figures like Tamara Rojo; Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts, have contributed their talent and knowledge to this project, supporting young people either as a performer or as a guest Maître.
Since its creation the Company has had the presence and support of guest stars from the Royal Ballet of London, English National Ballet, National Ballet of the Marseille Opera Theatre, Vienna Opera Theater Ballet, National Ballet of the Theater of Budapest Opera, American Ballet Theatre, Nederland Dance Theatre, Alberta Ballet of Canada and the National Ballet of Cuba among other prestigious groups.
Because a dancer is not made in a hall, because one works to meet the public, which is actually the final objective of what you do.
The Alicia Alonso Ballet Foundation is also a center for creators open to training and research on the complex world of ballet and dance.
The Alicia Alonso Foundation Ballet frequently invites different choreographers from around the world to create new classical and modern stage productions.
Teachers, choreographers and repeaters, with extensive professional experience, who make this company a benchmark in the current dance panorama.
The Alicia Alonso Foundation Ballet is a center for artistic creation and choreographic production of the Alicia Alonso University Dance Institute, an autonomous body of the Alicia Alonso Foundation, whose mission is to promote and disseminate the art of dance and its repertoire in a broad sense, through a stable company, open to all styles, choreographic languages and movement arts in general, both Spanish and international creation, facilitating the approach of new audiences and promoting its national and international projection in a framework of full artistic autonomy and creation.
The Madrid Chamber Ballet performs more than twenty stage performances annually, thanks to its links with the Spanish Theater Network and other reference centers.