Serge Lifar
He danced the major classical ballets such as "Swan Lake", "Giselle", "Don Quixote", "La Bayadère", "The Sleeping Beauty", "Raymonda", "Paquita", "The Nutcracker", "La Sylphide", "Romeo and Juliet", as well as neoclassical ballets by Frederick Ashton, George Balanchine, Kenneth MacMillan, Yury Grigorovich, Antony Tudor, Serge Lifar, Harald Lander, John Cranko, among others. Martínez also danced contemporary pieces by Maurice Béjart, John Neumeier, Mats Ek, William Forsythe, Jiří Kylián, Martha Graham, Roland Petit, and Pina Bausch.