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"El ballet" — Colección Arco Iris (Editorial Gente Nueva, 1979)
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Children's illustrated educational booklet on ballet, from the Arco Iris series. Front cover: title "El ballet" in blue over a color photograph of ballet dancers in white tutus posed in a receding line on a dark stage; the "ARCO IRIS" rainbow logo with an orange tab at upper left. Back cover (light blue): a color photograph of a single ballerina in a white tutu in arabesque, an emblem at upper right (the International Year of the Child, 1979), and the full credits/colophon with the Gente Nueva logo. Saddle-stitched.
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The Cabrera Arús family collection
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Front — "El ballet"; "ARCO IRIS" logo. Back — full colophon with the credits above; "© Sobre la presente edición: Editorial Gente Nueva, 1979"; publisher address; "Impreso en el mes de octubre de 1979, 'Año 20 de la Victoria', en el Combinado Poligráfico 'Osvaldo Sánchez', Ciudad de La Habana"; "Nivel escolar / 07-26490"; Gente Nueva logo; emblem (IYC 1979).
Norma Padilla Ceballos
Havana
Cuba
Caribbean
Central America
10/1979
Combinado Poligráfico "Osvaldo Sánchez"
Havana
Cuba
Caribbean
Central America
Cover and design: Ángel Alonso Doiz Photographs: Leovigildo González Pérez Correction: María de la Trinidad Hervé; typographic marking: Irma Pérez Jiménez; layout (emplane): Rosalía Fleitas Pérez (No separate text author is credited.)
Fair
Editorial Gente Nueva
Havana
Cuba
Caribbean
Central America
publication, acquisition, use
Arco Iris was an illustrated educational series for children from Editorial Gente Nueva, Cuba's children's and youth publisher. El ballet introduces young readers to the art form — apt given the prominence of ballet in revolutionary Cuban culture (the Ballet Nacional de Cuba under Alicia Alonso). The photographs by Leovigildo González Pérez show dancers in classical white tutus, presumably Cuban; the company and dancers are not identified on the object. The Ballet Nacional de Cuba, founded by Alicia Alonso in 1948 and sustained through the revolution, was one of the cultural institutions the state was proudest of: a world-class company operating from Havana, proof that socialism produced art, not just machinery.