Waldeen Falkenstein

Waldeen, actually Waldeen (from) Falkenstein Brooke de zats ( born February 1, 1913 in Dallas, † August 18 1993 in Cuernavaca ), was an American dancer and choreographer. It is one next to Anna Sokolow, Alicia Markova, Anton Dolin and Michel Descombey to the great pioneers of modern Mexican dance.

Biography

Waldeen went with the Japanese choreographer Seki Sano to Mexico. She left Mexico and returned again in 1939 back with the ballet dancers Winifred Winider to dance in Mexico City at the Teatro de Bellas Artes (Spanish for Theater of Fine Arts). Here she founded prompted the ballet theater, called the Ballet de Bellas Artes (Spanish for Ballet of the Fine Arts), which she ran until the dissolution in 1947. During this time she had a relationship with Bodo Uhse and lived with him before this left her and married Alma Agee. She even married the theater director Rodolfo Valencia and went to Cuba from 1962 to 1965 as a result of the invitation of the revolutionary government. In 1966 she founded again a ballet company, known as the " Waldeen Ballet ", which also included Guillermina Bravo and Ana Mérida.

Walt Whitman saw her choreographies to his poems as " human becoming " Implementation and expressed in this " Waldeen, I thank you for the poems to my poems that are better than mine. "