She was co-founder of the academy of Mexican dance (Spanish: Academia de la Danza Mexicana) in 1947 and established together with Josefina Lavalle the national ballet company in Mexico City in 1948, which has been located in Querétaro since 1991, where she also established the national center of contemporary dance.
In 1938 she was taught by Estrella Morales, and taught choreography autodidactically from 1940 to 1945, while she danced as ballerina of Waldeen's ballet of fine arts (Spanish: Ballet de Bellas Artes) in Mexico City.
Afterwards she was involved in the establishment of the Academia de la Danza Mexicana and the national ballet.
[6] Bravo is member of the Academia de Artes[7] and of the World Dance Alliance.
She was awarded with the 1979 Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes and was made honorary doctor of the Universidad Veracruzana.