Only few hours after the death of prima ballerina assoluta Alicia Alonso, personalities and institutions around the world have used social media to send their condolences to Cuba and the ballet.

Josep Borrell Fontelles, minister of foreign affairs, the Europe Union and Cooperation of the Spain Kingdom, who is on an official visit in Cuba, wrote on Twitter to be surprised in this country with “the loss of the dance legend Alicia Alonso, a unique and universal person who represented as no one before the artistic talent of Cubans.”

The national dance company of Mexico issued a statement regretting the sad loss of the ballerina, who created the Cuban National Ballet and is considered a legend of classic ballet; “we join dance community, family and friends in their sorrow”, it concludes.

The national institute of Arts and Literature of Mexico published on Twitter that classic dance is mourning because of the loss of prima ballerina Alicia Alonso, who collaborated with the national dance company regarding her chorographical version of Giselle.

Besides, the renowned Cuban dancer and choreographer Carlos Acosta, on his official Twitter account, wrote an emotional message, just in few words he expressed what Alicia’s death meant for him: “mom is gone, the greatest star. Alicia Alonso…Immortal! ”.

Miguel Díaz-Canel, president of the republic of Cuba, few minutes after the news was published, wrote on Twitter his regrets for the loss of Alonso, expressing that “she left a great hollow but an insuperable legacy; she enabled Cuba’s position on the best of world dancing; thanks Alicia for your immortal work”, he twitted from Mexico, where he is on an official visit.

Iroel Sánchez, a Cuban engineer and journalist, wrote on this social web that, even as a world star, the prima ballerina assoluta remained in Cuba, she bet for her homeland and Revolution, then she offered her talent and disposal to serve her people, to whom she gave a universally prestigious ballet school with the Cuban soul as its core.

Meanwhile, Luis Morlote Rivas, president of the Cuba’s writers and artists union, expressed that with profound grief Cuban writers and artists say good-bye to the great Alicia Alonso, member of honor of this organization, who will be always remembered.

Moreover, the vice minister of foreign affairs Rogelio Sierra, reminded in the digital web what the Revolution leader Fidel Castro Ruz once said about the Cuban culture icon, who he named as “the silk hand that awakened the sleeping genius at the bottom of our people's soul.”