María del Carmen Gloria Contreras Roeniger

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María del Carmen Gloria Contreras (y) Roeniger , known as the artist as Gloria Contreras , (born November 15, 1934 in Mexico City ; † November 25, 2015 there ) was a Mexican dancer and choreographer .

Life

Gloria Contreras first learned to dance from 1946 to 1954 in Mexico from the French Nelsy Dambré . From 1956 to 1964 she attended the School of American Ballet in New York , where she received lessons from Pierre Vladimirov , Felia Doubrovska , Anatole Oboukhoff , Muriel Stuart and George Balanchine . From 1958 to 1965 she also learned from Carola Trier in New York .

She taught choreography at the choreography workshop of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), founded in 1970 , of which she was director. Contreras had been a member of the UNESCO International Council for Dance since 2003 and was a member of the Academia de Artes .

Awards

  • 1970: Prize of the Unión Mexicana de Cronistas de Teatro y Música
  • 1972: “Ixtlitón” award and gold medal at the Festival Mundial del Folklore de Guadalajara
  • 1981: Silver Cup "Excelencia Artística" from the American magazine "Popular Opera"
  • 1984: Prize of the Unión Mexicana de Cronistas de Teatro y Música
  • 1985/1989: “Una Vida en la Danza” medal from the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes
  • 1992: Medal from the Universidad de Guadalajara
  • 1993: Medal of the Faculty of Psychology, UNAM
  • 1995: Gold medal from the Colegio de Bachilleres
  • 1995: UNAM prize for artistic creation and cultural expansion
  • 2002: “Guillermina Bravo” award
  • 2005: Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes in the "Fine Arts" category.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fallce la bailarina y coreografa Gloria Contreras. In: eluniversal.com. El Universal, November 26, 2015, accessed November 28, 2015 (Spanish).
  2. ↑ María del Carmen Gloria Contreras Röniger ( Memento of May 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish), UNAM choreography workshop.
  3. ^ Academia de Artes-Artes Escénicos
  4. ^ Gabriela Jiménez Bernal. Gloria Contreras, fenómeno humanístico de la Danza ( Memento of February 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish).
personal data
SURNAME Contreras Roeniger, María del Carmen Gloria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Contreras y Roeniger, María del Carmen Gloria; Contreras Röniger, Gloria; Contreras, Gloria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION mexican dancer and choreographer
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Mexico City , Federal District , Mexico
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 2015
Place of death Mexico City , Federal District , Mexico