Portrait of ballet dancer Sunny Lorinczi (Solarization), Montevideo, 1946

Dancer # 2 (Solarization), Montevideo

Sunny Lorinczi was born in Uruguay in 1930 to a family of Hungarian origin. A ballet dancer from her early teenage years, she goes on to interpret the starring roles of classical ballet’s repertoire, such as “Giselle”, through South America. She becomes the Montevideo’s Sodre’s prima ballerina in 1951, under the direction of Vaclav Veltchek. In 1961, she moves to France with her French husband and son and sets up her own ballet school.