Gloria Contreras Roeniger

Gloria Contreras
Born	November 15, 1934 (1934-11-15) (age 77) Mexico City, Mexico

María del Carmen Gloria Contreras (y) Roeniger, better known as Gloria Contreras (born November 15, 1934), is a Mexican dancer and choreographer.

Biography

Contreras was born in Mexico City. She studied dancing under Nelsy Dambré in Mexico from 1946 to 1954, and visited School of American Ballet in New York from 1956 to 1964, where she was taught by Pierre Vladimirov, Felia Doubrovska, Anatole Oboukhoff, Muriel Stuart and George Balanchine. From 1958 to 1965 she was also taught by Carola Trier.

Currently she teaches choreography at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and is director of its choreography workshop, which was founded in 1970.^[1] Contreras has been member of the International Dance Council since 2003 and is member of the Academia de Artes.^[2][3] She was multiple awarded.^[4]

External links

• Gloria Contreras at the Internet Movie Database
• Photo

References

1. ^ María del Carmen Gloria Contreras Röniger (Spanish), choreography workshop of the UNAM.
2. ^ Academia de Artes-Artes Escénicos
3. ^ Gabriela Jiménez Bernal: Gloria Contreras, fenómeno humanístico de la Danza (Spanish), Academia de Artes.
4. ^ Awards

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Name	Contreras Roeniger, Maria Del Carmen Gloria
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Date of birth	November 15, 1934
Place of birth	Mexico City, Mexico
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