Cuban National Ballet School

The school dates back to the Ballet School of the Sociedad Pro-Arte Musical de La Habana, founded in 1931, where the prima ballerina assoluta, Alicia Alonso her former husband Fernando Alonso and his brother Alberto received their earliest ballet classes.

The fundamental characteristic of this teaching institution is in its formation, sustained in the methodology of the Cuban school of ballet.

"[3] In 2002 the expansion allowed the program to begin the work to select 4,050 students out of the 52,000 that were interested.

Most of them form part of the Cuban National Ballet, one of the most important companies of the world.

Some are given permission to join, or defect to, foreign ballet companies,[1] primarily American.