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DANCER

Carmen Galindo was born on the 6th of February 1947 in Barcelona, where she started her ballet training at ten years old with the teacher Filo Feliu.

At the age of 13 she goes to London with a scholarship to continue her training at Elmhurst Ballet School. Here she attends the course of the Royal Academy of Dancing and under the supervision of Patricia Brown she gets the Elementary, Intermediate and Advanced Diplomas.

 

An invitation from Walter Gore leads Carmen from London to Lisbon at the age of 17 and she starts her professional career in Ballet Gulbenkian.

In this company she dances, among others, the following ballets: "Aurora's Wedding", "Swan Lake" Act II, "Giselle", "Fire Bird", "Raymonda", "Coppelia", "Les Sylphides", "La Fille Mal Gardée", "Beau Danube", "Schumann'Carnaval".

Carmen Galindo works with great Ballet Masters and Coreographers  such as: John Auld, Nicholas Beriozof, Roland Casenave, Anton Dolin, Walter Gore, Paula Hinton, Serge Lifar, Leonilde Massine, Milko Sparemblek, Carlos Trincheiras, Àgueda Sena.

 

In 1970 she interrupts her dancing career and in 1973  she starts a school in Lisbon, teaching Ballet and "keep fit" for Ladies.

In Brasil, Carmen founds and directs the "São Paulo Dance Academy" having under her supervision 11 teachers and over 500 students.

Once again Carmen gets an invitation hard to refuse, and in 1977 she returns to Lisbon and joins the just founded National Ballet of Portugal (CNB) under the direction of her friend and colleague  Armando Jorge. Here she dances classical repertoire: "Swan Lake" (Act II), "Graduation Ball", "Les Sylphides", "La Sylphide", "Raymonda", "Romeu and Juliete"; and Neo- Classical pieces such as: : "Canto de Amor e Morte" Patrick Hurde, "Suite Medieval"  Brydon Page, "Carmina Burana",  "Diálogos"  Armando Jorge and others. In CNB she adds her experience excelents Ballet Masters and Coreographers working with: Roland Casenave, Ruben Echeverria, Paula Gareya, Tony Hulbert, Patrick Hurde, Armando Jorge, Violette Quenolle, Laszlo Tamasik, Pirmin Trecu, Lynn Wallis, Terry Westmoreland, Alphonse Poulin.

In 1983 Carmen leaves definitely the stage life and opens Carmen Galindo's Studio.  

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