Ballet world gives birthday gift to U.N. (UNited We Dance dance festival)

From: Dance Magazine | Date: May 1, 1995| Author: Ben-Itzak, Paul | Copyright information

Eleven new ballets were created by 13 leading ballet companies for UNited We Dance, a festival organized to mark the 50th anniversary of the UN. The new works represent the world body's goal of creating a new world.

SAN FRANCISCO--The ballet world will give the United Nations a huge present for its fiftieth birthday: a festival in which thirteen top companies offer eleven new ballets, May 9-14, at San Francisco's War Memorial Opera House, in the same building complex where world l...

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