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Evelyn Cisneros: Prima Ballerina
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Evelyn’s parents moved to the US from Durango, Mexico to Huntington Beach, CA
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California
Huntington Beach, CA
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Huntington Beach, CA to New York City back to San Fransico
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Ballet
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• Evelyn Cisneros
• Birth: 1959 in Long Beach, California Nationality: American Ethnicity: Hispanic
American Occupation: Ballerina.
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Who is Evelyn Cisneros?
• Began training at seven and a half years of age • Moved to San Francisco at the age of sixteen to
dance with the San Francisco Ballet as an apprentice.
• Studied with the School of American Ballet for a summer, studied with the San Francisco Ballet School for three summers
• Has been dancing with the San Francisco Ballet Company for twenty years now.
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What does Prima Ballerina mean?
• ballerina is a female ballet dancer.• Although the term ballerina is used for any female ballet
dancer it was originally a rank given to an exceptional ballet soloist in the Russian Imperial ballet companies. The rankings, from highest to lowest, were:
• prima ballerina assoluta • prima ballerina • ballerina • premieres danseur • soloist • coryphee • corps de ballet
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Click for video of Evelyn Cisneros Dancing- click on clips
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"Dance was my passion. There was nothing else I would have wanted to devote my life to," says Cisneros. "except having children." At the beginning of the 1998-99 season, she was nearing 40, and had never suffered a serious dance-related injury or undergone a surgery. Yet, she was noticing that "things in my body were beginning to creak. And I wondered if it were worth dancing, if I couldn't dance at my highest level of expertise. I remembered my colleague Cynthia Harvey saying you should go while people are saying why, rather than when."
In her own words…
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An end to a great era…• The Evelyn Cisneros
era at the San Francisco Ballet ended with a gala performance on May 9, 1999, and no dancer could have had fewer artistic reasons to retire. For twenty-three years, SFB had been Cisneros' only professional home.
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• Five years later, Cisneros fulfilled her mission of retirement. She is SFB's Ballet Education Coordinator (the department was created two years ago).
• She has coauthored Ballet for Dummies with conductor Scott Speck.
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Bibliography
• http://www.pav.org/evelyn.htm • http://www.maps-of-mexico.com/• http://www.infoplease.com/atlas/mexico.html • http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/us_2001/california_ref_2001
• http://www.netstate.com/states/maps/ca_maps.htm • http://www.ci.huntington-beach.ca.us/• http://www.ballerinagallery.com/ • http://www.photostogo.com/content/topsearches/Ballet.asp • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballerina • http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1083/is_9_78/
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Evelyn Cisneros: Prima Ballerina