Morena Celarié

Morena Celarié (April 20, 1922 – April 22, 1972) was a Salvadoran folk dancer. She was born in San Salvador and began her dancing career at a young age. Celarié performed throughout the Western world and founded a folk dancing school in her native country. When cured of paralysis in one of her legs after a promise to the Virgin of Guadalupe, she dressed only in white until her death.

Biography Morena Celarié was born on April 20, 1922, in the San José neighborhood of San Salvador, El Salvador. She began dancing at four years of age and found herself the student of Antonia Portillo de Galindo, a guest of María de Sellarés in Guatemala, and Luis Marné, Celarié's public performances were attended by Salvadorans like Francisco Morán and writer Edilberto Torres, who wrote that she "has done more for El Salvador than many ambassadors." On one occasion, she danced at an event hosted by César Tolentino, then ambassador of the Dominican Republic to El Salvador.

Celarié obtained a scholarship to study in Mexico City at the Palacio de Bellas Artes and while still in Mexico led 300 dancers of the Junior Chamber of San Salvador in Cándido Flamenco's La Suaca from the school and into the city.