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Voice Thread What made him/her influential? || How are they applying their special gifts to society outside of their work life? || What is their legacy? || > **."** || When she first established her ballet school, she travelled around Cuba and found talented dancers and funded for them to go to her school || National Balltet of Cuba || code Alicia Alonso: Cuban Ballet dancer - from Havana,Cuba - partially blind due to eye defect since she was 19 -Her company became Ballet de Cuba -UNESCO awarded her the Pablo Picasso Medal, its award for notable contributions to arts or culture, in 1999. -Fernando Alonso is her husband who is also a ballet dancer -  born December 21, 1920 - Studied in the School of American ballet -1938, Musical comedy on Broadway  -She became a member of the Ballet Theatre of New York, in 1940 -In 1948 she founded in Havana the Ballet Alicia Alonso, today's National Ballet of Cuba -invested with the Doctor Honoris Causa degree of the University of Havana, the Institute of Arts of Cuba, the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain, and the University of Guadalajara, Mexico ¬_ Member of Honor of the Association of Directors of Scene of Spain (ADE) - In 1998 she was appointed with the Gold Medal of the Circle of Fine Arts of Madrid; the French Republic gave her the Order of the Arts and the Letters, in Commander's Grade, and the Council of the Cuban State honored her with the title of National Heroine of the Work of the Republic of Cuba - 2002 the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of her country appointed her Ambassador of the Republic of Cuba; and recently she was invested in Paris as Ambassador of Good Will of UNESCO [|http://@http://alocubano.com/alicia_alonso.htm] - Alicia Alonso Dance Foundation: [] code ||
 * Notable Hispanic || Time Period and Place || Accomplishments
 * Alicia Alonso || 1920- || * estblished the National Ballet of Cuba
 * performed in musical comedy on Broadway
 * Ambassador of Good will of UNESCO
 * won Pablo Picasso prize for her participation in the dancing community
 * "**"Heroine of Labour of the Republic of Cuba." **