Description Alicia Alonso\'s artistic achievements are remarkable, considering that she became partially blind and lost her peripheral vision at age nineteen.
The back matter includes a biography, Alonso\'s ballets, choreography, and awards, a glossary, sources, notes, and websites..
Bernier-Grand and Ra l Col n capture the seminal events in Alonso\'s life.
In elegant free verse and stunning artwork rendered in watercolor, colored pencils, and lithograph pencils on watercolor paper, Carmen T.
In 1959 the Cuban government gave her enough money to establish a new dance school, Ballet Nacional de Cuba, which Alonso directs to this day.
Returning to Cuba in 1948, she founded her own company, which eventually folded due to lack of funding.
From childhood, she exhibited a passion for dancing, studying first in Cuba and later in New York City, where she became an overnight sensation in Giselle and was promoted to principal dancer in Ballet Theater.
Description Alicia Alonso\'s artistic achievements are remarkable, considering that she became partially blind and lost her peripheral vision at age nineteen
