Alicia Alonso, Star of Cuba’s National Ballet, Dies at 98 (Published 2019)

A ballerina of unusual range and power, she continued to dance into her 70s despite chronic vision problems. Alicia Alonso, who overcame near-blindness to become a charismatic ballerina of unusual range and power, and who helped found what became, with Fidel Castro’s support, the National Ballet of …