The metaphor of the world

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Alicia Alonso in 1953 in London (Credit: Ron Case / Keystone / Getty Images)

Editor's Note: Camilo Egaña is the Camilo driver . The opinions expressed in this article are exclusive to the author.

(CNN Spanish) - Alicia Alonso, the last diva of classical ballet, has died at 98 in a hospital of the government elite in Havana and not on stage, as she would have liked.

If dance is the “favorite metaphor of the world,” as choreographer Kristy Nilsson believes, twentieth-century art cannot be understood without personalities like Alonso, Picasso, Dalí, Hemingway or Ezra Pound, who lived at the mercy of their immeasurable talents and also of their debatable political commitments.

Severe and generous, uncompromising and lenient, Alicia Alonso represents, beyond the great words and the interested manipulation of each other, the model of the absolute artist and of the human being who believes herself invincible and therefore produces her own Mythology without the permission of any god. As it should be.

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