The commemoration highlights the legacy and influence of the prima ballerina assoluta, and in her memory, the National Ballet of Cuba (BNC) will perform the classic “Don Quixote” this Sunday, with principal dancers Anette Delgado and Dani Hernandez in the leading roles.

Alicia dedicated her life to dance, first training to become a respected ballerina, then developing her own style, and finally perpetuating ballet within Cuban culture as an integral and inseparable part of it.

Along with brothers Fernando and Alberto Alonso, extraordinary teacher and choreographer, respectively, she founded the first professional ballet company in Cuba 77 years ago, when that art was scarcely understood in Latin societies.

Despite the social, political, and health challenges she faced, this woman’s determination and courage allowed her to persevere in elevating her status as a dancer.

Alonso supported the social revolution in Cuba that started in 1959 and rose above prejudices and bourgeois ideologies to bring her art to the people, factories, fields, forests, valleys, and every street.

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