DANCE WORLD-CLASS BALLET OR FACE THE GULAG -- WHICH WILL IT BE?
PIC INFO: Resolution at 2465x3974 -- Spotlight on a Soviet-era film poster for the feature film "Young Ballet of the World" (1970). Artwork by notable poster artist and Member of the Union of Cinematographers of the USSR, Sergei Datskevich (1919-1977).
POSTER OVERVIEW: "A Soviet-era film poster for a feature on the first International Ballet Competition for young ballet dancers held in Moscow -- "Молодой балет мира" / "Young World Ballet" -- showing a ballerina (possibly the prima ballerina Ludmila Semenyaka b. 1952) in an elegant pose in front of a world map shaded like a theatre curtain with the title above and the credits below.
Now a firm tradition in the ballet world, this ballet competition was founded in 1969 by the legends of the Russian Ballet: Igor Moiseyev (1906-2007), Olga Lepeshinskaya (1916-2008) and Galina Ulanova (1910-1998); held every four years and judged by an international jury; this first competition in 1969 was won by the renowned ballet dancer and choreographer Mikhail Baryshnikov (b. 1948)."
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