HAVANA, Cuba, Oct 31 (acn) With great sadness, Cuba's National Ballet Company (BNC) received on Friday the news of the death of notable Cuban choreographer Ivan Tenorio, as a result of a long disease.
The press department of the Cuban company said that Tenorio was a student of renowned professors, like Fernando Alonso, Joaquin Banegas, Azari Plisetski, Jose Pares and Yuriko and began his artistic career as a member of Havana's Estudio Theater Company.
In 1963, Tenorio joined the Contemporary Dance Ensemble as a dancer and a choreographer. Two years later he became part of the BNC, for which he created a large number of excellent choreographies, among them Adagio para dos (1967), Ritmicas (1973), La casa de Bernarda Alba (1975), Hamlet (1982), Los amantes de Verona (1986), Viva Lorca (1989) and Teseo y el Minotauro (2006).
Some of the works by the winner of the 2007 National Dance Prize are part of the repertoire of several international companies, among them the Slovakian National Ballet; the Ballet of the Rhine, in France; and the Ballet of Cali, in Colombia; also, the Ecuadorian Chamber Ballet; the Sodre Ballet of Montevideo, Uruguay; the Santiago de Chile Ballet and the Young Chamber Ballet of Madrid.
He won important national and foreign awards and was a professor of the Alicia Alonso Dance Department of the Universidad Complutense of Madrid and Permanent Assistant Lecturer of the Faculty of Stage Arts of Cuba's Higher Arts Institute.
In 2003 he received the Alejo Carpentier Medal given by the Council of State of the Republic of Cuba.
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