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Lupe Serrano ( Guadalupe Martínez Desfassiaux ; born December 7, 1930 in Santiago de Chile ) is a Chilean ballet dancer.

The daughter of the Spanish musician Luis Martínez Serrano grew up in Chile. In 1943 she came to Mexico with her family and began her training with the Mexico City ballet . In 1948 she took part in a Central America tour of the Cuban ballerina Alicia Alonso . Then she became a member of the Ballet Folklorico de Mexico . In 1951 she went to New York and was initially a member of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo .

Serrano was the prima ballerina of the American Ballet Theater from 1953 to 1971 . She worked here with choreographers such as George Balanchine , William Dollar , Antony Tudor and Jerome Robbins and had performances in the Soviet Union, Greece, England and Venezuela. In 1957 she married Kenneth Schermerhorn , conductor of the American Ballet Theater orchestra. In 1962 she appeared on television at the side of Rudolf Nureyev in the ballet Le Corsaire .

In 1971 Serrano ended her career as a dancer and turned to ballet lessons. She taught from 1971 to 1973 at the National Academy of Arts in Illinois, then until 1984 at the Pennsylvania Ballet School . She has also given master classes at the San Francisco Ballet , the Minnesota Dance Theater , the Cleveland Ballet , the Washington Ballet , the Cincinnati Ballet , the Rome Opera Ballet, and the National Ballet of Mexico . In 1988 Serrano became artistic director of the Washington Ballet . From 1997 she also taught at the Juilliard School of Music .

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• Lupe Serrano: 1930—: Ballerina - Born With Desire To Dance
• American Ballet Theater - Lupe Serrano
• Encyclopedia - Serrano, magnifying glass
• La Web de las Biografías - Serrano, magnifying glass