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Amalia Hernández Navarro (b. Mexico City, September 1, 1917 - November 5, 2000) was a Mexican ballet choreographer and founder of the world-renowned Ballet Folklorico de Mexico. Hernández was born to the military officer and politician Lamberto Hernández and his wife Amalia Navarro.〔Margarita Tortajada Quiroz: (''Amalia Hernández: audacia y fuerza creativa'' ) (Spanish)〕 She was a pioneer in developing Baile Folklorico, and in 1952, Hernández founded the Mexican Folkloric Ballet with only 8 dancers. By 1959, the ensemble had grown to 60 performers. It was commissioned to represent Mexico at the Pan American Games in Chicago, Illinois, in 1959. Since 1960, Hernández created over 60 choreographies and her famous ballet has performed uninterruptedly Sunday mornings and Wednesday evenings at the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City. Additionally, she founded the Folkloric Ballet School in Mexico City, Her brother, architect Agustín Hernández, designed the building in 1968.〔(Ballet Folklorico de Mexico de Amalia Hernandez )〕 ==Background== Born in Mexico City in 1917, Amalia Hernandez grew up in a wealthy home as her father was a prominent business man with military and political involvement. Amalia has been known to credit her mother for her interest in the arts, explaining a childhood full of art, singing, and music lessons. Her parents encouraged her interest in dance, her father going so far as to build a studio in their home. Her father was quoted as saying, “... there is no other alternative but to accept the career Amalia was born to have”.〔http://www.uam.mx/difusion/revista/feb2002/tortajada.html〕 At the age of 17, she entered the National School of Dance directed by Nellie Campobello, which marked the beginning of Amalia’s serious involvement in dance. After some conflicts with the director of the school, however, Amalia dropped out and consequently married, effectively putting her career on hold for a short while. Ultimately, the call of dance was too strong, for she began to work at the Fine Arts National Institute as a teacher and choreographer of modern dance. She was unsatisfied and unfulfilled with her dancing, however, unable to connect with modern and European dance: “her cross-breed feeling, her contemporary mexicanism, vibrated with the half - breed’s resonance, already defined and on the surface of the colorful México”.〔http://www.balletamalia.com/biography.html〕 She turned to traditional, cultural dances of Mexico, and thus began her involvement with baile folklorico. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Amalia Hernández」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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