Vicente Nebrada was a Venezuelan

Venezuela

Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...

 dancer and choreographer

Choreography

Choreography is the art of designing sequences of movements in which motion, form, or both are specified. Choreography may also refer to the design itself, which is sometimes expressed by means of dance notation. The word choreography literally means "dance-writing" from the Greek words "χορεία" ...

. Born in Caracas

Caracas

Caracas , officially Santiago de León de Caracas, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela; natives or residents are known as Caraquenians in English . It is located in the northern part of the country, following the contours of the narrow Caracas Valley on the Venezuelan coastal mountain range...

, Nebrada began his career as a dancer with the National Ballet of Venezuela, Alicia Alonso

Alicia Alonso

Alicia Alonso Martínez is the Cuban prima ballerina assoluta and choreographer. Her company became the Ballet de Cuba in 1955....

's National Ballet of Cuba, with Roland Petit

Roland Petit

Roland Petit was a French choreographer and dancer born in Villemomble, near Paris, France. He trained at the Paris Opéra Ballet school, and became well known for his creative ballets.-Biography:...

 in Paris and with the Joffrey Ballet (1959). Nebrada was a founding member of the Harkness Ballet

Harkness Ballet

The Harkness Ballet was a major New York ballet company named after its founder Rebekah Harkness. Harkness inherited her husband's fortune in Standard Oil holdings and was a dance lover...

, where he created his first ballet "Percussion for Six Men," in 1969.

In 1975 Nebrada helped found the International Ballet of Caracas and became their artistic director and resident choreographer in 1977. In 1984 he became the artistic director of the National Ballet of Caracas where he remained until his death due to leukemia

Leukemia

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 in 2002. His dances have been performed by Ballet Hispanico

Ballet Hispanico

Ballet Hispanico is an American dance company based in Manhattan, New York. It was founded by the Venezuelan American dancer and choreographer Tina Ramirez in 1970 and presents dances reflecting the experience of Hispanic and Latino Americans...

, American Ballet Theater, Joffrey Ballet

Joffrey Ballet

The Joffrey Ballet is a dance company in Chicago, Illinois, founded in 1956. From 1995 to 2004, the company was known as The Joffrey Ballet of Chicago. The company regularly performs classical ballets including Romeo & Juliet and The Nutcracker, while balancing those classics with pioneering modern...

 of Chicago, National Ballet of Canada

National Ballet of Canada

The National Ballet of Canada is Canada's largest ballet troupe. It was founded by Celia Franca in 1951 and is based in Toronto, Ontario. Based upon the unity of Canadian trained dancers in the tradition and style of England's Royal Ballet, The National is regarded as one of the premier classical...

, Berlin Opera

Berlin Opera

Berlin Opera usually refers to one of the three opera houses in Berlin, Germany:*Staatsoper Unter den Linden : Opened in 1742 as Königliche Hofoper , sometimes also known as Lindenoper , renamed State Opera in 1918, destroyed during World War II...

 Ballet, English National Ballet

English National Ballet

English National Ballet is a classical ballet company founded by Dame Alicia Markova and Sir Anton Dolin and based at Markova House in South Kensington, London, England. Along with the Royal Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet and Scottish Ballet, it is one of the four major ballet companies in Great...

, Australian Ballet and the Universal Ballet of Korea.