Performance | The Communists

Performance highlights

Chile / Remembering Joan Jara – dancer, activist and heroine of Chile

The wife of murdered folk singer Víctor Jara kept her husband’s legacy alive and never gave up the fight for justice for Chile’s disappeared.

15 Dec 2023 , Proletarian
Cuba / Alicia Alonso: architect of Cuba’s socialist ballet

A true daughter of the masses, whose talent and art was put at the service of the people and the building of a new society.

20 Dec 2019 , Lalkar
Music / A worker reviews Shostakovich’s fifth symphony in concert

Shostakovich’s greatest triumph arose from Soviet life, reflecting its optimism and spirit.

21 Aug 2019 , Lalkar

Performance topics

Performance video

Culture / Soviet ballet: dancing the classical heritage of humanism

Dance historian Christina Kostoula explains how ballet was put into the service of the people in the socialist Soviet Union.

16 Dec 2018, Proletarian TV

Performance theory

Culture / Deepening party work in the cultural sphere

The struggle for socialism is not only a political and economic struggle but also a cultural and educational one.

27 Apr 2025,