Guillermina Bravo

Guillermina Bravo ( born November 13, 1920 in Chacaltianguis, Veracruz, † November 6, 2013 in Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico) was a Mexican ballet dancer, choreographer and ballet director. In 1947 she co-founded the academy of Mexican dance ( Academia de la Danza Mexicana ) and in 1948 founded together with Josefina Lavalle in Mexico City, the Mexican National Ballet, located since 1991 in the state of Querétaro, where she also 1991, the national center for contemporary dance founded. Bravo was the star of the modern Mexican dance.

Biography

Bravo learned folk dance at the Escuela Nacional de Danza (Spanish for National Dance (high) school ) and studied music at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música, the National Conservatory of Music of Mexico. In 1938, she received instruction from Estrella Morales. Choreography she taught himself in the period 1940-1945, in which she as a ballerina of the Ballet de Bellas Artes ( Ballet of the fine arts; then headed by Waldeen ) occurred and the Art Theatre Ballet. In subsequent years, she founded the Academy in cooperation of the Mexican dance and then the National Ballet. From 1960, it did not occur itself, but directed to continue the National Ballet. Bravo was a member of the Academia de Artes and the World Dance Alliance -Americas and in 1979 the Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes, the National Prize for Arts and Sciences, excellent. In addition to her an honorary doctorate was awarded by the Universidad Veracruzana.