Fernando Bujones 2005 Deaths

Fernando Bujones

one of the world's greatest male ballet dancers who began training at age 8 at the school of the famous Cuban ballerina Alicia Alonso in Havana. Later, he received a scholarship to George Balanchine's School of American Ballet in New York. Bujones joined the American Ballet Theatre in 1972. In 1974 he became a principal dancer—one of the youngest in the world. He left American Ballet theater in 1985, becoming a guest artist with dozens of companies.