• Submitted by: manso
• Arts and Culture
• 12 / 28 / 2010

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Cuba's Prima Ballerina Alicia Alonso arrives at the headquarters of Cuba's National Ballet to receive the 2010 National Award of Education in Arts in Havana, Cuba, Monday, Dec. 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)Cuba's Prima Ballerina Alicia Alonso arrives at the headquarters of Cuba's National Ballet to receive the 2010 National Award of Education in Arts in Havana, Cuba, Monday, Dec. 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)

By ASSOCIATED PRESS. 5:14 p.m., Monday, December 27, 2010. HAVANA (AP) - Cuba has honored the celebrated ballerina and National Ballet director Alicia Alonso with its top award for arts instruction.

The 90-year-old prima ballerina assoluta received this year's National Prize for Artistic Teaching at a ceremony Monday in a wood-floor studio at the ballet's headquarters.

Alonso said she was touched.

She told admirers, journalists and dance students that "the most wonderful moment in life is when one can teach others what one has learned."

Alonso rose to stardom with the American Ballet Theater. She has led the Cuban National Ballet for decades, despite being nearly blind.

Source: www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/dec/27/