MOON-DANCE

Sun Myung Moon’s dance company comes to London. Not just a vanity effort, the company is well-financed and has earned good reviews. “The Universal Ballet was created after Moon’s 17-year-old son was killed in a car crash in 1984. The youth had been engaged to a gifted young ballet dancer called Julia Pak, the daughter of Moon’s right-hand man. In a bizarre ceremony, she was married to her dead fiance’s ghost, thus becoming Rev Moon’s daughter-in-law, and the Universal Ballet was set up as a memorial to the dead man.” – The Telegraph (London)