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Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo

Not Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo; but Ballets Russes without the de Monte Carlo is a different albeit related company. Robert Greer (talk) 22:10, 28 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Prove it!

I challenge the statement that Alonso was a prima ballerina assoluta because I see no evidence that the Cuban government ever made such a decision. If they did, please give chapter & verse so the claim can be checked. The wider problem affects a number of WP dance articles, where no reliable reference is given for big claims. Note: I do not deny her excellence in dance, just the title. See longer discussion on Ballerina talk page. Macdonald-ross (talk)

There seem to be no grounds for pba; ref given in intro. Macdonald-ross (talk) 18:21, 14 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"PRESIDENT Raúl Castro Ruz yesterday visited Alicia Alonso, Cuba’s prima ballerina assoluta, at her home to congratulate her on the occasion of her 90th birthday." Link: [1], screenshot: [2]--Kar98 (talk) 19:09, 24 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This section has little/no references

I think there are several umproved/discussed facts most of them without any relevance to this article. Please clean up and/or provide references. For example:

Critics [who?] point out her indifference to the Castro regime's brutality and the hypocrisy [discussed] of a "culture-friendly" regime that banned even the unauthorized loaning of books from one citizen to another [does it is relevant?]. (Alonso has also been critizized [by hwo?] for remaining silent about the immense artistic repression imposed after Castro lied to the Cuban people and took complete control [discussed, and again it is relevant?], instilling communist opposite to what he said and never bringing back the constitution of 1940 [reference?]. Also while Cuba would send away artist and counter reovlutionaries IMAP Silvio Rodriguez [what does it means?].. Alicia Alonso continued on her selfish style of only worring about herself [subjective/personal opinion]. Note that Alicia Alonso was Alicia Alonso long before a political movement[?]. Cuba exsisited LONG before the Current dictators the Castro Brothers [nonsense]. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 159.226.110.169 (talk) 00:19, 14 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]