José Greco
José Greco (actually Costanzo Greco Bucci; born December 23, 1918 in Montorio nei Frentani, † December 31, 2000 in Lancaster, USA ) was an Italian flamenco dancer and choreographer.
Life
At the age of ten years moved Greco, who officially assumed his stage name later, with his parents to New York City where he took with his sister in Brooklyn dance classes. In 1937, he debuted at the Hippodrome Theatre in Manhattan and danced alongside such well-known partners such as La Argentinita or Pilar López in "Ballet Español ". In 1948 he founded his own " Bellets y Bailes de España ", with which he made his debut in Paris and then in Barcelona and then undertook numerous tours. In 1951, she recorded the first time Great Britain, and later other European countries and the United States, and so brought the Spanish dance an unprecedented attention. 1953 saw 19,000 people their screening in New York City. Numerous honors were bestowed Greco, as well as by the Spanish Government. In addition, Greco played in a handful of films.
In 1972 he founded the " José Greco Foundation for Hispanic Dance " to promote this art form. A first retreat into private life In 1974, an autobiography, the book in 1977 published " Gypsy in my Soul " and a comeback in the late 1980s, when he (he has a dance company with his children with his wife Ana Borger- Greco three sons and three daughters ) founded. In 1995, Greco was the last time on the stage while he was on as a guest professor of dance in his adopted hometown of Lancaster.