The sisters Nellie and Gloria Campobello
National dance could not be understood without these two women. Nellie (1900-1986) was director of the National Dance School since 1937, promoted mass ballets, pieces of nationalist theme and the creation of a Mexican ballet, and trained the first students of this art. In addition, he promoted his sister's career, Gloria, whom he turned into the first ballerina of Mexico thanks to the influence he obtained in this scene from the moment in which by the task of President Lázaro Cárdenas created the iconic choreography «Ballet 30-30», which commemorated the Mexican revolution.
Then, the same of its own works and of purely Mexican tone as «Alameda 1900» and «Ixtepec», to pieces more attached to the classic reversed, for example «the sylfides». He remained at the head of the End until 1984, which towards the end of that decade changed its name to National School of Dance Nellie and Gloria Campobello, under the auspices of the INBA.
For his part, Gloria was an important dancer who also dedicated himself to teaching and exercised as a choreographer. He died in 1968 at age 51.
Guillermina Bravo
It belonged to the first generations formed by the Campobello sisters, however, he left the End to take classes with star Morales, a teacher who had become independent from the National School, but who already had a career initiated since the twenties. In that context it was discovered by the American dancer and corographer Waldeen von Falkenstein and participated in the so -called Ballet of Fine Arts that he did during the forties. Then, he began his self -taught training and together with companions dancers of his generation he created the National Ballet of Mexico, which is considered the first independent modern dance company of the country.
Bravo is owed more than 50 choreographies, dance teaching programs, the impulse of contemporary dance in Mexico and even the organization of the Faculty of Dance of the Veracruz University and the National Center for Contemporary Dance of Querétaro. He died in 2013.