Lorena Feijóo – Cuban former principal ballet dancer, born 1970/71 in Havana, Cuba. Trained at the Cuban National Ballet School and became a principal dancer with the Cuban National Ballet under Alicia Alonso before leaving Cuba in 1990. She went on to dance with Ballet de Monterrey, Royal Ballet of Flanders, Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, and was principal dancer with the San Francisco Ballet from 1999 until her retirement in 2017. Her most notable acting credits include Leonela in The Lost City (2005, directed by Andy García), Amelia in Not I (2010), Jezebel in American Mongrel (2013), and Lola Montez in Land of Gold (2021). She also appeared on Sesame Street (2008) with her sister Lorna Feijóo and on Dancing with the Stars (2011). She is now Ballet Mistress and Director of the Pre-Professional Division at Feijóo Ballet School in Texas, where she resides with her daughter.
Lorena Feijóo – Cuban former principal ballet dancer, born 1970/71 in Havana, Cuba. Trained at the Cuban National Ballet School and became a principal dancer with the Cuban National Ballet under Alicia Alonso before leaving Cuba in 1990. She went on to dance with Ballet de Monterrey, Royal Ballet of Flanders, Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, and was principal dancer with the San Francisco Ballet from 1999 until her retirement in 2017. Her most notable acting credits include Leonela in The Lost City (2005, directed by Andy García), Amelia in Not I (2010), Jezebel in American Mongrel (2013), and Lola Montez in Land of Gold (2021). She also appeared on Sesame Street (2008) with her sister Lorna Feijóo and on Dancing with the Stars (2011). She is now Ballet Mistress and Director of the Pre-Professional Division at Feijóo Ballet School in Texas, where she resides with her daughter.
