Xiomara reyes biography for kids
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Paloma Herrera facts for kids
Paloma Herrera (born 21 December 1975) is a prominent Argentineballetdancer, choreographer, and artistic director who was a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre, where she worked for twenty-four years. She was the director of Colon Theater Ballet from 2017 until 2022.
Herrera was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and began studying ballet there at the age of seven with teacher Olga Ferri. She quickly became a noted prodigy in South America, winning many competitions throughout and was able to continue her training at the Minsk Ballet School in the Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (now Belarus); returning to Buenos Aires, she was cast as Cupid in a performance of Don Quixote at the Teatro Colón.
With her reputation growing, Herrera was invited by Natalia Makarova to study with her at the English National Ballet in London. Soon afterwards, she studied at the School of American Ballet in New York City, where she made such an impression that she was selected to dance the lead role in Raymonda in the school's annual workshop performance.
She officially became a member of the American Ballet Theatre's corps de ballet in 1991; by 1993, she was promoted to soloist, and by 1995 she became a principal dancer.
Herrera was honored by t
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Xiomara (given name)
| Language(s) | Guanche, Germanic, Breton |
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| Meaning | battle ready, battle famous, horse worthy, most beautiful star of the universe. |
| Variant form(s) | male form: Xiomar, Siomara, Guiomara, Jhomara |
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Xiomara is a feminine Spanish given name, which is probably of Guanche ancestry that can be compared with Guacimara or Autinmara [es], which share the same suffixes.
It is also less likely a variant of Guiomar and derived from the German name Wigmar, which means "battle ready" or "battle famous" (also a homophone of the Guanche toponym Güímar) [2] or derived from uuiu (cf. gwiw) which means worthy in Old Breton and marc'h (cf. marc'h) which means horse in Breton. In the United States it ranked 986th place in names for female newborns in 2010.[3]
Notable people with the name include:
- Xiomara Alfaro (1930–2018), Cuban singer
- Xiomara Blandino (born 1984), Nicaraguan model
- Xiomara Castro (born 1959), Honduran president
- Xiomara De Oliver (born 1967), Canadian-born artist
- Xiomara Fortuna (born 1959), Dominican singer
- Xiomara Getrouw (born 1994), Surinamese swimmer
- Xiomara Griffith (born 1969), Venezuelan judoka
- Xiomara Larios (born 1958), Nicaraguan sprinter
- Xiomara Laugart