Guillermo Keys-Arenas

Guillermo Keys-Arenas (born 1928, El Ebano, Mexico — d. 31 January 2006, Sydney, Australia) — was a dancer and choreographer. He is remembered for his eight-year association with Ballet Folklorico de Mexico for which he was artistic coordinator and ballet master, as well as his contribution to dance in Australia.

Biography

Guillermo Keys-Arenas was born in El Ebano in the state of San Luis Potosí, northern Mexico. From his earliest days he was obsessed with theatre, and when the family moved to Mexico City, his mother enrolled the seven-year-old with the National Dance School.

Dancing debut Concert program cover of performance of the Ballet Folklorico de Mexico at the University of Michigan in 1963. Guillermo is the Assistant to the Director Amalia Hernandez.

His professional debut was made with the Mexico City Ballet in 1945. His dancing abilities were rewarded by grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, the British Council and the French government, enabling him to study ballet and modern dance in the US, Britain, France and Sweden. In 1963 he was the Assistant to the Director of Ballet Folklorico de Mexico, while in 1969 he was its Artistic Coordinator.

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