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===Dance=== In 1962, Moon and other church members founded the [[Little Angels Children's Folk Ballet of Korea]], a children's dance troupe that presents traditional [[Korean dance|Korean folk dances]]. He said that this was to project a positive image of South Korea to the world.<ref>{{cite news |last=Sewell |first=Rhonda B. |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=vWRPAAAAIBAJ&pg=3834,3951179&dq=korean-culture-takes-the-stage&hl=en |title =Korean Culture Takes the Stage |work=[[The Blade (Toledo)|The Blade]] |page=D11 |date=28 February 2003 |quote=The colors, sounds, and heritage of South Korea will come alive tonight as the Little Angels, an all-girls Korean folk ballet company, performs in the Ritz Theatre in Tiffin... The company was founded in 1962 by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon and his wife, Hak Ja Han, as a way to project a positive image of the country...}}</ref> In 1984, Moon founded the {{USD|8 million|long=no}} [[Universal Ballet]] project, with Soviet-born Oleg Vinogradov as its [[art director]] and Moon's daughter-in-law [[Julia Moon|Julia]] as its [[prima ballerina]]. It was described by ''[[The New York Times]]'' as the top [[ballet]] company in Asia.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/29/arts/dance-a-small-place-reaches-for-ballet-s-big-time.html?pagewanted=print&src=pm | work=[[The New York Times]] | first=Allen | last=Robertson | title=A Small Place Reaches for Ballet's Big Time | date=29 July 2001}}</ref> In 1989, Moon founded Universal Ballet Academy, which later changed its name to [[Kirov Academy of Ballet]], in [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref>Kim, James S. (11 March 2015). "[http://iamkoream.com/south-korean-ballerina-hee-seo-dazzles-in-the-sleeping-beauty/ South Korean Ballerina Hee Seo Dazzles in 'The Sleeping Beauty'] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151112194126/http://iamkoream.com/south-korean-ballerina-hee-seo-dazzles-in-the-sleeping-beauty |date=12 November 2015 }}". [[KoreAm]]. Seoul, South Korea. Retrieved 1 November 2015.</ref>
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