choreographer
Choreography is the art or practice of designing sequences of movements of physical bodies (or their depictions) in which motion or form or both are specified. ''Choreography'' may also refer to the design itself. A choreographer is one who cr ...
and ballet director. She established together with Guillermina Bravo the national ballet company in Mexico City in 1948
Gloria Campobello
Gloria (Soledad) Campobello Luna (October 21, 1917 – November 1, 1968) was a Mexican ballet dancer and choreographer. Her older half-sisterWaldeen's ballet of fine arts ( es, Ballet de Bellas Artes). Together with Anna Sokolow she discovered her talent for
contemporary dance
Contemporary dance is a genre of dance performance that developed during the mid-twentieth century and has since grown to become one of the dominant genres for formally trained dancers throughout the world, with particularly strong popularity in ...
and got her first contact to José Limón, when she took part in a course of choreography for young dancers. In 1955 Carlos Chávez made her primaballerina and choreographer of the academy of Mexican dance ( es, Academia de la Danza Mexicana) and he discovered her really talent during the works of "Misa brevis" with the ''Ballet de Bellas Artes'' in 1961. Lavalle was director of the Academia de la Danza Mexicana from 1959 to 1969 and for a second time from 1972 to 1978.
Amongst others, Lavalle was awarded with the "José Limón" medal of the
Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura
The Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBAL, en, National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature), located in the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, is the Mexican institution in charge of coordinating artistic and cultural ...
in the Palacio de Bellas Artes on January 19, 2008.''Recibirá Josefina Lavalle medalla INBAL-José Limón'' (Spanish) at ''Vanguardia'', Mexico.
She died in 2009.
Further reading
* Gabriela Jiménez Bernal (Spanish), Dirreción de Danza UNAM, Mexiko-Stadt.