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United Ukrainian Ballet: Welcomed by the Netherlands and the world
By Victor Swoboda Displaced by war, 60 Ukrainian dancers, artists, and technicians have hastily joined a new company called United Ukrainian Ballet based in the Netherlands. “I read about the war every day, but I try to do it less often because I get too worried,” said one of the company’s ballerinas, Anastasia Mirraslavska, 26,
Beloved Carla Fracci: An iconic Italian ballerina remembered
By Silvia Poletti On April 9, at the end of the first edition of Gala Fracci — Teatro alla Scala’s celebration of the late Carla Fracci, intended to become an annual affair — the theatre’s red curtains closed on the dancers applauding the ballerina’s image projected onto the backdrop. With that moving conclusion to the