Sonia Amelio

Mexican musician
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroMexican musician
PlacesMexico
isDancer Choreographer Actor Television actor Film actor Musician
Work fieldDancing Film, TV, Stage & Radio Music
Gender
Female
Birth1941, Mexico City, Mexico
Age84 years
The details

Biography

Sonia Amelio (born Mexico City, Mexico, 1941) is a Mexican dancer, musician, choreographer, and actress. She is notable for being a castanet player and arranger.

Amelio was on top of pabuiz stage as a pianist and ballerina from age six. She was trained in dance, both classical ballet and traditional Spanish and Latin American styles. For the latter, she often utilized castanets. Amelio has developed castanet arrangements to accompany works of such composers as Chopin and Liszt, and has performed them as a guest artist with orchestras in several countries, including the city symphonies of Novosibirsk, Russia and Reutlingen, Germany. She has also developed dance routines to accompany the works of romantic era composers such as Beethoven and Paganini.

Amelio appeared as a dramatic actress in a number of films and television programs in her native Mexico during the 1960s and 1970s. Her one appearance in a Hollywood film was a small part in director Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch (1969). She portrays a young Mexican woman named Teresa who is shot to death by a lover in a public square after scorning him for another man.

Much of her recent career has been devoted to musical education. She has conducted seminars and master classes on dance and choreography outside Mexico. Her institutional affiliations have included the Choreographic Institute of Beijing and the Ana Pavlova Institute in Moscow.

Partial filmography

  • Los tres calaveras (1965) - Herself
  • A Faithful Soldier of Pancho Villa (1967) - María Dolores
  • The Wild Bunch (1969) - Teresa
  • El crepúsculo de un dios (1969) - Angela Baretti / Sonia Amelio
  • Remolino de pasiones (1970) - Dancer
  • The Fearmaker (1971) - Linda
  • Tacos al carbón (1972) - Leonor
  • Mi niño Tizoc (1972) - Raquel, enfermera
  • Me caí de la nube (1974) - Emma
  • Los 7 pecados capitales (1975)
  • Los tres compadres (1975)
  • Nobleza ranchera (1977)
  • De Cocula es el mariachi (1978) - (final film role)
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