Marta García

Marta García (7 February 1949 – 29 January 2017) was a Cuban ballet dancer and prima ballerina who worked for the Cuban National Ballet and its corps de ballet. She made her stage debut for the Alicia Alonso Ballet Academy at age seven and trained at Havana's Cuban National Ballet School. García won the 1968 Varna International Ballet Competition youth prize and earned a silver medal at the same event two years later. She was director of the Colon Theater Ballet in Buenos Aires from 2001 to 2004 working with her husband.