A prima ballerina in Russia has quit in protest, while young Ukrainian dancers flee war. Jon Wertheim reports on how ballet has become a front in Russia's war next door.
So opened the cultural front of Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine.
Jon Wertheim met five of the young Ukrainian ballet dancers who have been welcomed at The National Ballet Academy of Amsterdam. Among them is a girl named Katya, who turned 18 years old on February 24, the day the invasion began. She told Wertheim that, when she awoke that morning to a flurry of messages on her phone, she had assumed they were to celebrate her birthday.
This need to keep dancing is something each dancer shared as they recalled their reaction to Russia's invasion. Now safe in Amsterdam, they told Wertheim that the physical demands of pliés and pirouettes offer a means of mental escape from the realities of war at home.
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