Fernando Alonso (17 December 1914[1] – 27 July 2013) was a Cuban ballet dancer.
He received the Prix Benois de la Danse for lifetime achievement in 2008.
Born as Fernando Juan Evangelista Eugenio de Jesús Alonso Rayneri in Havana, Cuba in 1914 to Matías Alonso Reverón and Laura Rayneri Piedra.
[3] By 1929, at age 15 both Fernando and his younger brother Alberto were sent to the United States to study at Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama, due to the country's political instability.
[6] The new couple and Alonso's brother moved to New York City, hoping to begin their professional careers in the United States.