In 1984, in Seoul, Korea, the Reverend Sun Myung Moon and his wife founded the Universal Ballet for Julia Moon, the fiancée of their son who had recently died in a car crash (she was married to him posthumously). The Cold War still raged, and Russian ballet still had a nurturing home in what was then Leningrad, sending tendrils of influence to neighboring land masses. The Korean troupe embraced the Russian style long before Oleg Vinogradov (who directed the Kirov for 20 years) took over as artistic... More >>>