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Private Tourism Investment in Mexico reached US$2.803 billion during First Four Months of 2008
Mexico’s Tourism Minister noted that during the past 16 months of President Felipe Calderón’s administration, Mexico has accumulated US$6.267 billion; as a result it has achieved 31% of its six-year goal of US$20 billion.
Tourism Secretary Rodolfo Elizondo inaugurated the 22nd Annual Convention of the Mexican Association of Tourist Developers (AMDETUR) on “Tourism, the Engine of Development for Mexico,” at which he told businessmen that Mexico has shown favorable results regarding private tourist investment by accumulating
US$2.803 billion during the first four months of this year. Accompanied by José Carlos Azcárraga, President of AMDETUR, the SECTUR director stated that as a result of the confidence of investors in the tourism sector, 31% of the six-year goal of $20 billion USD has been achieved, since over the past 16 months of President Calderón´s government
US$6.267 billion in investment in tourism have been generated. “55% of this investment comes from national capital, while the remaining 45% corresponds to foreign investors, mainly from the United States and Spain,” Elizondo said. “The presence of those of you who are tourist investors and developers confirms your enormous confidence in Mexico, and your willingness to continue combining forces and coordinating actions that will enable us to increase tourist flows and investments and thereby contribute to Mexico’s economic development,” declared Elizondo. MORE
Ballet Folklorico
Amelia Hernandez
Adrienne Dominguez
Amalia Hernandez mesmerizes her audiences
Amalia Hernandez is an expert choreographer designing movements that express the eternal passion representative of the true Mexico. The soul of México vibrates in it’s greatest ballet, Ballet Folklorico.
In 1952, Amalia Hernandez, dancer and choreographer, founded the Ballet Folklórico de Mexico, having embarked, at a very early age, on a never-ending quest to rescue the dancing traditions of Mexico. Amalia started to work at the Fine Arts National Institute, as a teacher and choreographer of modern dance. In 1952 but soon decided to leave the Institute and form her own company, to present, in total freedom, programs of Mexican folkloric dances.
When Amalia was eight years old, she approached her father, Mr. Lamberto Hernandez, to tell him something probably common to a lot of young girls: " Dad I want to learn to dance". The young Amalia learn to dance, in her house with two private instructor.
Acclaimed military and politician, Mr. Lamberto decided that his daughter’s instructors must have the merrits befitting of t his family and according to his position. He employed professor Sybine, first dancer at Pavlova´s dance company and Madame Dambré, from the Paris Opera. Sometimes, the vigorous temper of the girl could not be easily accommodated within the limitations that the ballet imposed. She later studied with the Spaniard dancer "La Argentinita". After that, with Waldeen, the distinguished North American modern dance choreographer and dancer. He lead a school in which the different elements, patterns of dance, the styles and genres, were always presented with the passion and the will to know, interpret and recreate them.
Amalia Hernandez was growing and she was growing artistically too. Amalia noticed that the ballet and the modern dance, the foreign music and foreign dances, did not fill nor expressed her emotions. She was moved, instead, with the songs and dances that she listened and watched at her father’s land, during her journeys to the country and she missed them even while she studied dance in the city.
Her feelingd for her beloved México, she longed for contemporary mexicanism, she vibrated with the Mestizo resonance, already defined and on the surface of the colorful México. And soon she started to understand that in the corners, mountains and valleys of her country, in those little towns that were awake with their large seasonal festivities, represented her feelings' explosions. She realized that they were an unexpored and hidden treasure. She decided to share them with the world. She decided to start the
At the beginning her troupe was a small group. She entered to the artistic battle in an environment of a lot of confusion and polemics; but armed, as some writer expressed, " with the ethereal grace of a young dancer and the strategic capacity of a general".
A weekly television program was offered to the new company for which Amalia had to create, set a choreography and dance new ballets every week. But she had at least an opportunity to give away the richness of knowledge that she had accumulated about the music and folkloric dances of her country.
Later, the small and spectacular company, brought the attention of the Tourism Department and it’s director asked Amalia to take the company, with official representation, to other countries of the continent.
These cultural visits had a great success and after a triumphal presentation at the Chicago’s Pan-American Games, in 1959, the president Lopez Mateos offered the company all the support that was necessary to create for México "one of the best ballets of the world".
For Amalia Hernandez this was a great victory in her fight to obtain the national recognition for her ballet, an even greater victory when her company was chosen as an official representative of the Mexican government at the Paris’s Festival of the Nations, in 1961. The designation was a success; in the middle of the enthusiastic acclamations given by the French critics the Ballet and it’s smart director received their First Award. But the great honor was just a step for a woman that already starting could not stop creating choreographies and dancing.
She stopped dancing with the company only recently. She was convinced that her time was more profitable for the company that was becoming more important at each moment, and she dedicated herself exclusively to the choreography and organization.Since 1960 Amalia Hernandez had created the choreography for 30 different ballets, composed by 56 different dances. We can measure the greatness of this effort thinking that months of study are needed sometimes to compose a ballet.
A huge amount of childhood dreams are forgotten through the years, but there are a lot of people who, like Amalia Hernandez, can decide that their dreams are bigger and better when they were for real. But the dreams were not made by themselves: they were realized by the talent, the dedication, the art and the organizing capacity that have not stopped feeling the sensible fibers of a town that expresses their feelings to take them, with the subtle armor of the choreography, to the great show.
Norma Lopez Hernandez, daughter of the renowned choreographer and dancer Amalia Hernandez, has been the driving force of a grand popular tradition ever since she took over the leadership of the Resident Company of the Ballet Folklórico de Mexico. As a ballerina of great qualities and a woman of unparalleled talent for the management of the Ballet, Norma Lopez has devoted herself completely to the supervision and artistic direction of the company’s performances at the Palacio de Bellas Artes, in Mexico City, and other official presentations; furthermore, she takes part in all rehearsals as well as in the preparation and organization of the Traveling Company while in Mexico.
Norma Lopez is a touchstone of the world and art of Ballet. In her mother’s Amelia Hernandez' words are more than enough to confirm this assertion: “My daughter is a better director and manager than I could ever be. Without her help, it would have been impossible to transform our ballet company into what it is today, and in so little time.” This mother and daughter share in their ardent desire to enrich the world through the art of the Ballet Folklórico de Mexico. Make your reservations:
