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Ana Ines Barragan King


Ana Ines Barragan King (born 1957 in Bucaramanga, The Republic of Colombia) is the founder of the Latin Ballet of Virginia. She is a professional dancer and choreographer and was a 2016 honoree of Virginia Women in History.

Ana Ines Barragan King attended the Instituto Departmental de Bellas Artes of Colombia, where she earned a BFA in dance and choreography. After moving to Richmond, she studied dance at Virginia Commonwealth University, later joining the faculty in VCU School of the Arts.

While in Colombia, she founded the Santander Jazz Ballet and was its artistic director for a decade. She began a dance company early in the 1990s in Richmond and by 1997 she had established the Latin Ballet of Virginia. For the 2016 production of the Latin Ballet of Virginia's The Legend of the Poinsettia, King featured her fellow VCU faculty member and founder of the Virginia Commonwealth University dance department Frances Wessells.

In 2011 she received the Theresa Pollak Prize for Excellence in the Arts (Dance) and was named Boomer Magazine's "Boomers and Shakers Honoree" in 2013. She won the YWCA of Richmond, Virginia's Outstanding Women Award for Arts in 2015.

King is a member of the faculty of Virginia Commonwealth University's School of the Arts. She teaches and choreographs award-winning dance pieces, including the annual Legend of the Poinsettia, which in 2016 featured among its dancers Frances Wessells.

The Latin Ballet Company of Virginia's educational programs taught by Ana King include subjects such as "Spanish through Dance" about Hispanic language/culture, "Dance as Therapy" for special-needs children, "ELL (ESL) through Dance" with a goal of assimilating international children/families, and "EveryBody Reads!" which is a literacy program. All the educational programs of the Latin Ballet Company meet Standards of Learning (SOL) standards.


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