Waldeen Falkenstein

Waldeen von Falkenstein Brooke de Zats (born February 1, 1913 in Dallas , † August 18, 1993 in Cuernavaca ), was an American dancer and choreographer . Along with Anna Sokolow , Alicia Markova , Anton Dolin and Michel Descombey, she is one of the great pioneers of modern Mexican dance .

biography

Waldeen went to Mexico with the Japanese choreographer Seki Sano . She left Mexico again and returned in 1939 with the ballet dancer Winifred Winider to dance in Mexico City at the Teatro de Bellas Artes ( Spanish for theater of fine arts ). Here she founded the ballet of the theater, the so-called Ballet de Bellas Artes ( Spanish for ballet of the fine arts ), which she directed until its dissolution in 1947. During this time she also had a relationship with Bodo Uhse and lived with him before he separated from her and married Alma Agee . She herself married the theater director Rodolfo Valencia and went to Cuba from 1962 to 1965 at the invitation of the local revolutionary government. In 1966 she re-founded a ballet company known as "Waldeen Ballet", which also included Guillermina Bravo and Ana Mérida .

Walt Whitman saw her choreographies for his poems as a "human" implementation. Waldeen was also an important translator of the poems of Pablo Neruda, in particular of his poetry book Canto General . Neruda said in this regard, "Waldeen, thank you for the poems that go with my poems, which are better than mine."

Individual evidence

1. ↑ even under the improbable variant falcon stone discoverable
2. ↑ Waldeen, 1913, 1993 ( Memento of the original from July 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (French), Bibliothèque de la danse de l'ESBCM. 
3. ↑ 25th Biennial Conference of ICKL ( Memento of the original from December 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English). 
4. ↑ Kristin Silcher: Bodo Uhse: Sunday dreaming in the Alameda. ( Memento of the original from June 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Berlin 1961. 
5. ↑ From Falkestein, Waldeen ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ Waldeen ( Memento of the original from April 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Dirreción de Danza UNAM, Mexico City. 
7. ↑ http://www.uhmc.sunysb.edu/surgery/Neruda_in_English_Waldeen%27s_Lost_Translations.pdf (English), State of Acapulco, July 1, 1956; translated from Spanish by Asa Zatz.