The stable ballet of the Colon Theater was born out of the concern that arose in Buenos Aires in the 19th century about the availability of national artists who would quench the thirst for ballet caused by visiting countless foreign troupes. It was in 1925 that the company made its debut. During Sergei Diaghilev's second visit to the Russian Ballets in 1917, Nijinsky himself reportedly encouraged Cirilo Grassi Diaz, one of the creators of the project along with Carlos Lopez Buchardo, in this regard.

Leticia de la Vega, which caused the audience to have real passions for one or another of them. Well-known international directors have also taken on the magnificent task of directing the cast, starting with Bolma and ending with Margarita Wahlmann, Tamara Grigorieva, Bronislava Nijinskaya, Boris Romanov, Maria Ruanova.

From the very beginning, all the great choreographers of the world have worked with the Del Colon Ballet, editing its works or creating new ones for our dancers, from Fokine and Nijinsky, George Balanchine, Leonid Massine, Antonia Merce, Tatiana Gsovskaya, William Dollar, Serge Lifar, Anthony Tudor, to the closest in the world. time Jack Carter, Rudolf Nureyev, Pierre Lacotte, Natalia Makarova.

Countless artists with international careers have grown and flourished from its depths: Olga Ferri, Esmeralda Agoglia, Antonio Truyol, Enrique Lommi, Vasil Tupin, Adela Adamova, Irina Borovskaya, Mercedes Serrano, Violeta Janeiro, Jose Zartmann, and today Paloma Herrera, Maximiliano Guerra, Julio Bocca, Inaki Urlesaga, Marianela Nunez, Herman Cornejo, Luis Ortigosa and many others. Between both generations, the memory of the terrible blow inflicted on the troupe in 1971, when nine of its members died in a plane crash, including the unforgettable Jose Neglia, a masterful Wizard Boy, winner of the 1962 Nijinsky Prize, and his dance partner Norma Fontenla, a charming personality, comes up. This emptiness was the impetus for the hasty emergence of the generation that succeeded them, which courageously coped with this task, resulting in the current generation of brilliant dancers who make up it.

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