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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
USSR / Soviet ballet: dancing the heritage of humanism

How socialist realism, serving the people, sparked unparalleled creativity.

27 Jun 2018 , Proletarian

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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