Dance World

ANGEL CORELLA (Principal of ABT)

Carlos Acosta was born in Cuba in 1973. He started dancing at the insistence of his father as a means of occupying his spare time. He began dancing at the National Ballet School of Cuba, Havana, when he was ten. In June 1991 he received his diploma with maximum qualifications and a gold medal.

He has won numerous awards ranging from the Gold Medal at the Prix de Lausanne (January 1990), Grand Prix and Gold Medal at the Fourth Annual Competition of Ballet in Paris (November 1990), and the Grand Prix in the third Juvenile Competition of Dance (June 1991). His most recent accolade was the International Critics Prize from the Chilean dance critics.