Fernando Bujones (March 9, 1955 – November 10, 2005) was an American ballet dancer.
Born in Miami, Florida to Cuban parents, Bujones is regarded as one of the finest male dancers of the 20th century (along with: Rudolf Nureyev, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Edward Villela, Anthony Dowell, Patrick Dupond, Frank Andersen, David Wall, Desmond Kelly, Arthur Mitchell, Vladimir Vassiliev, Jean-Charles Gil, Richard Cragun, Denys Ganio, Bjarne Hecht, Jean Guizeri...
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Fernando Bujones (March 9, 1955 – November 10, 2005) was an American ballet dancer.
Born in Miami, Florida to Cuban parents, Bujones is regarded as one of the finest male dancers of the 20th century (along with: Rudolf Nureyev, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Edward Villela, Anthony Dowell, Patrick Dupond, Frank Andersen, David Wall, Desmond Kelly, Arthur Mitchell, Vladimir Vassiliev, Jean-Charles Gil, Richard Cragun, Denys Ganio, Bjarne Hecht, Jean Guizerix, Patrice Touron – and many, many others) and hailed as one of the greatest American male dancers of his generation
Bujones' first formal ballet classes were in Alicia Alonso's Cuban National Ballet school for about a year and a half. In 1967 he won a scholarship to the School of American Ballet, the official school of the New York City Ballet Company. He studied there for about five years; his teachers were some of the world’s premier ballet instructors, such as Stanley Williams, André Eglevsky, and Zeida Cecilia Mendez, his private coach....
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