Ballet Nena Coronil
Ballet Nena Coronil was a Venezuelan ballet company, founded in 1953 by Nena Coronil and considered the first professional ballet company in the country.
In 1953 Nena Coronil founded the Ballet Nena Coronil, as a platform for her students at the National Ballet School to have a professional company to work with. It was formed, in its beginnings, by the first generation of Venezuelan dancers that began in the Chair of Ballet of the Liceo Andrés Bello, later in the Club of Ballet, both groupings directed by the Argentine dancers Hery and Luz Thomson, and later in the National School of Ballet. In this first group were the Venezuelans Vicente Nebrada, Irma Contreras and Graciela Henríquez; and foreign dancers Lynne Golding and Henry Danton, all as major dancers. Belén Lobo, Maruja Leiva, Alfredo Pietri, Vicente Abad, Tulio de la Rosa, Domingo Renault and the Mexican Carola Montiel, among others, also belonged to this company at the time.
The Ballet Nena Coronil inaugurated that same year the private television in Venezuela with the presentation of the Sílfides, of Mikhail Fokine, in version of Vicente Nebrada, in the first transmission of Radio Caracas Television.
In 1955 Irma Contreras, Vicente Nebrada and Graciela Henríquez, get a scholarship from the Venezuelan Government and leave Venezuela to study in France and renounce the Ballet Nena Coronil. That same year, Margot Contreras, sister of Irma Contreras, retired from the Ballet Nena Coronil and the National School of Ballet for certain disagreements with Nena Coronil and founded the Inter-American Ballet Academy, a project of great importance in the Venezuelan stage movement, and the majority of the students of the National School of Ballet move to the new school. That same year Margot Contreras founds the Inter-American Ballet of Venezuela, of short duration, and in 1957 Irma Contreras returns to the country and founds next to its sister National Ballet of Venezuela.
These new schools and companies absorbed most of the human talent, both dancers and teachers, from the National Ballet School and the Ballet Nena Coronil, which soon dissolved. Bibliography
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