Sonia Osorio de Saint-Malo (25 March 1928 — 28 March 2011) was a Colombian

Colombian people

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 ballet dancer and choreographer. During her long career she became an important folklorist and promoter of the arts and culture having worked closely with and for the Carnival of Barranquilla and having founded in 1960 the Colombia Ballet, a national ballet company

Ballet company

A ballet company is a group of dancers who perform ballet, plus managerial and support staff. Most major ballet companies employ dancers on a year-round basis, except in the United States, where contracts for part of the year are the norm...

 that incorporates the native dances, styles and rhythms of Colombia.

Personal life

Osorio was born in 25 March 1928 to Luis Enrique Osorio Morales and Lucía de Saint-Malo Prieto in Bogotá. Her father Luis Enrique, was a playwright and poet, one of the precursors of theatre in Colombia. She was married and divorced three times; with her first husband Julius Siefken du Perly she had two children, Kenneth and Bonnie Blue. With her second husband, Francesco Lanzoni Paleotti, she only had one child, Giovanni, and with her third husband, Alejandro Obregón Roses

Alejandro Obregón

Daniel Alberto Alejandro María de la Santísima Trinidad Obregón Roses commonly known as Alejandro Obregón was a Colombian painter, muralist, sculptor and engraver.-Career:...

 she had two children: Rodrigo and Silvana.

See also

• Fanny Mikey
• Consuelo Araújo Noguera
  Consuelo Araujo Noguera
  Consuelo Araújo Noguera, also known as "La Cacica", was a Colombian politician, writer and self-taught journalist, born August 1, 1940 in the city of Valledupar...