DANCER

Alicia Alonso

1920 - 2019

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Alicia Alonso (born Alicia Ernestina de la Caridad del Cobre Martínez del Hoyo; 21 December 1920 – 17 October 2019) was a Cuban prima ballerina assoluta and choreographer whose company became the Ballet Nacional de Cuba in 1955. She is best known for her portrayals of Giselle and the ballet version of Carmen. From the age of nineteen, Alonso was afflicted with an eye condition and became partially blind. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alicia Alonso has received more than 497,330 page views. Her biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia. Alicia Alonso is the 22nd most popular dancer (down from 20th in 2019), the 21st most popular biography from Cuba (down from 19th in 2019) and the most popular Cuban Dancer.

Alicia Alonso is most famous for being the founder and director of the Ballet Nacional de Cuba, which is the national ballet company of Cuba. She has also been a dancer, choreographer, and teacher.

Memorability Metrics

  • 500k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.10

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.38

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among DANCERS

Among dancers, Alicia Alonso ranks 22 out of 116. Before her are Martha Graham, Michel Fokine, Tamara Karsavina, Galina Ulanova, George Balanchine, and Serge Lifar. After her are Carlo Blasis, Izumo no Okuni, Bronislava Nijinska, Olga Khokhlova, Filippo Taglioni, and La Goulue.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Alicia Alonso ranks 76. Before her are César Rodríguez Álvarez, Albert Barillé, Robert Whittaker, Abe Lenstra, Takashi Kano, and Arthur Hailey. After her are Yoshiko Yamaguchi, Dorothea Binz, Maurice Bucaille, Frank Sheeran, Gottfried Böhm, and Mehdi Ben Barka. Among people deceased in 2019, Alicia Alonso ranks 69. Before her are Sibghatullah Mojaddedi, Princess Christina of the Netherlands, Yury Luzhkov, Matti Nykänen, Michael Atiyah, and Rosamunde Pilcher. After her are Ratko Janev, Paul Greengard, Dragoslav Šekularac, Jan-Michael Vincent, Vladimir Bukovsky, and John Robert Schrieffer.

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In Cuba

Among people born in Cuba, Alicia Alonso ranks 21 out of 300. Before her are Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado (1919), Miguel Díaz-Canel (1960), Juan Almeida Bosque (1927), Sergio Oliva (1941), Javier Sotomayor (1967), and Ibrahim Ferrer (1927). After her are Maria Teresa, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (1956), Teófilo Stevenson (1952), Tomas Milian (1933), Gerardo Machado (1871), Juanita Castro (1933), and Alberto Juantorena (1950).

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Among DANCERS In Cuba

Among dancers born in Cuba, Alicia Alonso ranks 1. 

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