Jorge Donn, dancer.
In Argentina the day of the dancer is celebrated on February 28, in honor of the date of birth of the Argentine dancer Jorge Donn. He was born in El Palomar, Buenos Aires, in 1947 and died in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1992. He studied classical dance with María Fux at the Escuela del Teatro Colón and with only 15 years he made his debut in the company of Maurice Bejart in Brussels. Many works of Bejart were created especially for him: Bhakti (1968), Nijinski, clown of God (1971), Golestan: the garden of roses (1973), What love tells me (1974), Our Faust (1975) , Leda (1978), Adagietto (1981) and others.
Since 1976 Donn was the artistic director of the XX Century Ballet. In 1979, he was awarded the Dance Magazine Award.
In 1988 he formed his own company L'Europa Ballet that existed for a short time and in 1989, he was nominated by the Konex Foundation as one of the best dancers.
In 1989 he was nominated by the Konex Foundation as one of the best dancers.
He danced with Maya Plisetkaya and participated in the film "Los Aos y los Otros" by Claude Lelouch.
He died on 30 / November / 1992, in Lausanne and was honored by many choreographers: Maurice Bejart with his "Ballet for Life", Denys Ganio "Tango a rose for Jorge Donn", Grazia Galante "Chewing Dreams"
This day should not be confused with the National Day of Dance that is commemorated on October 10 in homage to the dancers of the Teatro Colón, who died in one of the worst aerial tragedies in Argentina, which occurred on October 10, 1971.
One year after the tragedy, the monument that evokes the missing dancers was inaugurated in Plaza Lavalle, just meters from the corner of Tucumán and Libertad. The sculptural work belongs to Carlos de la Cárcova and represents the dancers Norma Fontenla and José Neglia. The decorative fountain was created by the architect Ezequiel Cerrato.
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