Emerging From The Shadow Of Alicia Alonso

San Francisco Ballet star Lorena Feijoo was trained at the National Ballet of Cuba under the legendary Alonso, from whom she separated on less-than-amicable terms. “Now here was Feijoo, 38, and at the invitation of the young Cuban Classical Ballet of Miami, about to appropriate her former mentor’s Carmen in front of what essentially was a Havana audience, made up mostly of the more-recently arrived.”