The men and women of the United Ukrainian Ballet will make their U.S. debut Wednesday night at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. For many of the dancers, the stage has become a refuge from the brutalities of war.
The men and women of the United Ukrainian Ballet company will make their U.S. debut Wednesday night at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
The company of 60 relative strangers formed with the help of professional dancers who found housing and rehearsal space in The Hague. Last February, Oleksii Knyazkov was about to star in"Romeo and Juliet" at the Kharkiv National Opera House. Instead, he found himself at the center of a different tragedy when Russia invaded Ukraine.
Dancers of the United Ukrainian Ballet perform during rehearsal for Swan Lake at ICC Sydney Theatre on Oct. 27, 2022, in Sydney, Australia. "You don't think about performing or something like this when the aircraft go over your house, or you hear explosions," Knyazkov told CBS News."We didn't dance for a long time, because the most important thing was to save yourself," Ihnatenko said.
"You can't plan anything," Ihnatenko said."Maybe tomorrow everything will change...Will we have our home tomorrow? You don't know."
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