As she recalled, during the class, Serrano ill-advisedly launched into a series of fouettes that resulted in her tumbling to the ground, but Chase, looking on, was impressed with her moxie.

Guadalupe Martínez Desfassiaux Serrano was born on Dec. 7, 1930, in Santiago, Chile, while her father, Luis Martínez Serrano, an award-winning pianist and conductor from Barcelona, Spain, was on ...

The officers were uniformed but arrived in an unmarked van around 1:30 a.m., and Martinez said he didn't realize they were police. "The incident at hand was a terrible thing.