Periodico 26

I, who have always regretted that my time to be born prevented me from seeing her dance; I who feel a visceral admiration for that dance on tiptoes, microscopic testimony of the human will; I, who in the University overcame the logical blush of not having the right costume for the occasion, and waited for everyone to enter the Heredia Theatre, looked for a discreet armchair and saw The Swan Lake for the first time with childhood amazement. I...

Is she gone? I wonder. Can our Giselle leave? Her perpetual and indomitable gestures are tattooed in the memory of many, a space she gained not only by being one of the greatest dancers of all times, but by worrying about creating a school, a dance tradition in Cuba.

Thousands of Cubans converged at Havana´s Great Theater on Saturday to bring flowers and bid farewell to the legendary ballet star Alicia Alonso who died in Havana on Thursday at 98.

Cuba legendary prima ballerina assolluta and choreographer, Alicia Alonso, passed away in Havana on Thursday. She was 98.