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Revolution as Self-Expression: the Folklore Ballet of Nicaragua

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 January 2009

Abstract

Early in 1986, the Ballet Folklorico Nacional de Nicaragua was invited by the London Borough of Camden to play a season at the Shaw Theatre. Its founder and director. Ronald Abud V, taked to Elaine Turner, with the assistance of the company's translator Margaret Clark, about the work and aims of a company which has become closely identified with its country's revolution, and about the means of expressing a rediscovered national identity through the performing arts.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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