Ballet Zoom

The Ballet Zoom was a dancing company founded in 1973 as Ballet New Generation in Spain. It featured dancers from all over the world, initially choreographed by Don Lurio. The group was founded to perform as dancers in the stage show Telemusical en Directo, starring Carmen Sevilla, with music by Augusto Algueró and directed by Valerio Lazarov. When in 1974, Lazarov was commissioned to be one of the directors of TVE's ¡Señoras y señores! (1974), he brought with him all the team that had worked for him in Telemusical en Directo, renaming the ballet as Ballet Zoom, in honor of Lazarov's classic quirk of extensively using zoom in his TV shows. Ballet Zoom stayed in Lazarov's version of "Señoras y señores" for all of it's run up until 1975, gaining a huge following in Spain, a rarity for a dancing group back then. Then they kept on working on other TV shows by Lazarov and others, until they officially split up in early 1977, appearing on one side the Ballet Boom with some of Ballet Zoom members, and on the other side Grupo Zoom, a vocal band with some other members that released a few songs without much fortune. Both groups lasted only for a couple of years until they definitely split up and went separate ways.