Alberto Dallal

Background

Dallal Alberto Castillo was born on June 6, 1936, in Mexico City, Mexico.

Education

Alberto Dallal studied at the National School of Engineering and the National School of Architecture of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in the 1950s.

Career

Alberto Dallal began to get involved in theatrical activities when he was a student. He began teaching at the end of his studies in 1959 and has taught at different institutions, such as the National Preparatory School, the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences and the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the UNAM; as well as in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of the University of the Americas of Puebla. Alberto Dallal became a professor at Escuela Nacional Preparatoria.

Alberto Dallal has been a contributor to important supplements and cultural magazines in Mexico and some abroad. Alberto Dallal worked as an editor and editor in chief of the University of Mexico magazine from 1963 to 1969. He was a head of the Department of Distribution of University Books of the University from 1966 to 1967. Alberto Dallal was a coordinator of the General Directorate of Cultural Diffusion of the National Autonomous University of Mexico from 1968 to 1969. Alberto Dallal worked as a head of magazine writing Dialogues from 1970 to 1981. He was a head of Publications of El Colegio de México from 1972 to 1980. Alberto worked as a director of the Mexican Magazine of Culture (supplement of the newspaper El Nacional) from 1976 to 1979. Alberto Dallal was a general director of Radio National Autonomous University of Mexico from 1989 to 1991. From 1991 to 1992 he worked as a director of the “Hoy en la Cultura” news on TV Channel 11. Alberto Dallal was a coordinator of the magazine Annals of the Institute of Aesthetic Research from 1990 to 1993. Between January 1993 and June 2001 he directed the University of Mexico magazine. Since 2005 Alberto Dallal founded and to date coordinates the electronic magazine Images of the Institute of Aesthetic Research.

His earliest books include El hombre debajo del agua, a three-act drama that he published in 1962. Dallal followed his plays with two novels, El poder de la urraca and Las ínsulas extrañas, another play, Siete piezas para la escena, and a short-story collection, Geminis. These works show Dallal to be a writer of wide-ranging interests and abilities.

Dallal’s many writings on dance include El aura del cuerpo, a collection of articles earlier featured in various periodicals; La danza en México, a four-volume chronicle ranging from the pre-Columbian era to the twentieth century; and La danza contra la muerte, a collection of assorted materials produced by Dallal over two decades of writing.

Alberto Dallal is a researcher at the Institute of Aesthetic Research of the National Autonomous University of Mexico since 1975 and is part of the National System of Researchers of the National Council of Science and Technology (Conacyt) since 1985. He is an honorary member of the Choreographic College of Mexico, a member of the advisory board of the Dance Directorate of the Cultural Diffusion Coordination of the National Autonomous University of Mexico and was part of the board of directors and vice president for North America of the World Dance Alliance.

Achievements

• Alberto Dallal received the Magda Donato Prize for his book The Dance Against Death in 1979; the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize for Mexican dancing in 1982; the recognition “A life in dance” in 1996, from the National Institute of Fine Arts of Mexico; the distinction "To university merit" in 2002, for his thirty years of academic work at the National Autonomous University of Mexico; recognition as a critic, historian and outstanding researcher of dance by the Mexican Society of Choreographers in 2003; and the José Limón National Dance Award in 2008, granted by the National Council for Culture and Arts and the Government of the State of Sinaloa, for his career as a critic and researcher.
  
  The library of the National Center of Contemporary Dance, the National Institute of Fine Arts, located in the city of Queretaro, was named in his honor in 2002.

Works

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  • El "dancing" mexicano 1982
  • La danza en México 1986
  • Cómo acercarse a la danza 1988
  • Actas referenciales 1996

Membership

Alberto Dallal was a member of the International Association of Critics of Arts. He was a fellow of the Mexican Writers Center in 1963-1964.

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  International Association of Critics of Arts , United States

Personality

Alberto Dallal is well-disciplined and smart. He is a good speaker.

Interests

• history, dance, development, theater

• Artists

  Carlos Mérida

Connections

colleague:

Carlos Mérida

References

• Contemporary Authors New Revision Series: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Non-Fiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, TV, & Other Fields
  2010
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