Paloma Herrera (born in
Buenos
Aires
, Argentina
on December 21, 1975), is a principal ballet
dancer with the American Ballet
Theatre.
Ms.
Herrera was born in Buenos
Aires, Argentina, and began studying ballet
there at the age of seven with teacher Olga Ferri.
She
quickly became a noted prodigy in South
America, winning many competitions throughout and was able to
continue her training at the Minsk Ballet School in the Belorussian
Soviet Socialist Republic (now Belarus
); returning
to Buenos Aires, she was cast as Cupid in a performance of
Don Quixote at the
Teatro
Colón
.
With her
reputation growing, Ms. Herrera was invited by Natalia Makarova to study with her at the
English National Ballet in
London
. Soon afterwards, she studied at the School of American Ballet in
New York
City
, where she made such an impression that she was
selected to dance the lead role in Raymonda in the school's annual workshop
performance. Ms. Herrera officially became a member of the
American Ballet Theatre's
corps de ballet in 1991; by 1993,
she was promoted to soloist, and by 1995 she became a
principal.
[287579]
Ms. Herrera was honored by the American Immigration Law
Foundation
[287580] in 2001 for her contributions as a member of
New York's immigrant population. In addition to being a respected
ballerina, she is a common presence in the New York social scene.
Ms. Herrera is one of many
Latin
American ballet dancers performing in various companies around
the world.
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