"Dialogue with Dance," autobiography of Alicia Alonso, published in Spain

October 5, 2020

On the occasion of Alicia Alonso's centenary, the Cumbres publishing house published in Madrid the book Dialogue with Dance, authored by the prima ballerina assoluta.

The volume becomes an autobiographical record of her eminent career and includes fundamental texts about her artistic concepts from her condition as a dancer, choreographer and trainer of new generations of ballet on the island, the National Ballet of Cuba (BNC) specified.

According to the BNC, the present edition merited praise from the magazine Codalario, one of the most prestigious in the field of Spanish music criticism, endorsed by specialist Albert Ferrer, who valued the relevance of the work.

Apart from biographical and personal experiences, in the book Dialogue with Dance, Alicia Alonso shows herself firm in defending the value of culture as a bastion for the artist, the knowledge of tradition, the ethical and aesthetic commitment to ballet, Ferrer emphasized.

In Dialogue with Dance, the founder of the BNC presents ballet as a national expression of peoples in their idiosyncrasy, as a manifestation of universal character due to its physical potentiality, and expression of art linked to the subject, the BNC press release states.

With its publication, the author denounced discriminatory attitudes and racial and cultural prejudices that marked her era, to which she did not yield, while she pointed out the difference between school and style of ballet.

The book by Cuba's most universal dancer, which is available for sale in the main bookstores in Spain, is a publishing event and has aroused the interest of performing arts professionals.