Vicente Nebrada [SEP] date of death
Vicente Nebrada
Vicente Nebrada (born Vicente Balbino Nebreda Arias, 31 March 1930 - 26 May 2002) was a Venezuelan dancer and choreographer. Born in Caracas, Nebrada began his career as a dancer with the National Ballet of Venezuela, Alicia Alonso's National Ballet of Cuba, with Roland Petit in Paris, and with the Joffrey Ballet (1959). Nebrada was a founding member of the Harkness Ballet, where he created his first ballet "Percussion for Six Men", in 1969.
In 1975 Nebrada helped found
Festival Viva Nebrada.
In 2008, on the initiative of Eloísa Maturén, the Festival Viva Nebrada was created. This event seeks to keep Vicente Nebrada's choreographical legacy alive for new generations in Venezuela, as well as to promote and support Venezuelan choreographers, providing them with an appropriate platform for the development of their creativity. Conceived as a multidisciplinary gathering, it has a place for the different manifestations of dance, with themes that focus on bringing dance to the street.
Festival Viva Nebrada First edition.
The first