Principal dancer
Anastasia Gurskaya
managed to escape in time, her colleague
Oleksii Potiomkin
chose to go into battle, posting a camouflage photo on social media.
Artem Datsishin
, on the other hand, principal dancer of the Kiev Opera, did not even have time to figure out how to move, because the Russian missiles hit him only two days after the start of hostilities, seriously injuring him: three weeks later, he died in the hospital.
Now the art world mourns him, together with the actress, well known in her homeland,
Oksana Shvets
.
There remains the emotion on the social networks of the many who knew and admired them or who simply remain astonished in the face of the horrors of a conflict that in addition to so many civilians, women and children, also takes away talent.
Artem Datsishin had a lot of it.
At 43 he was one of the most popular dancers on the world stage
.
His romanticism, class, his expressive brilliance remain immortalized in the roles of Prince Siegfried in Swan Lake or the warrior Solor in La Bayadère.
As well as in The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Giselle and Romeo and Juliet
.
There are no great ballets that he hasn't toured around the world, from Europe to the United States, to Japan.
Born in Kherson, on the Black Sea, another city battered by bombs, he had won the Serge Lifar prize in 1996 and the Rudolf Nureyev in 1998.
"Great artist and wonderful man", remembers the director of the National Opera of Ukraine, Anatoly Solovyanenko.
"Goodbye my friend, I cannot express the pain I feel", cries Artem Datsishin, his colleague from Kiev.
Condolence overcomes barriers.
"It is an unbearable pain", writes the great Russian choreographer Alexei Ratmansky, former director of the dance company of the Bolshoi Theater
.
The war earthquake the world of dance, prompting Bolshoi prima ballerina Olga Smirnova, who openly condemned the war, to leave the Moscow theater in recent days to join the Dutch National Ballet.
Not so the other dance talent,
Sergei Polunin
, born in the same city as Datsishin, but Russian by choice and a supporter of Putin, so much so that he tattooed his face, who decided, officially due to an injury, to forfeit the scheduled show on 9 and 10 April at the Arcimboldi theater in Milan.
On the other hand, the San Carlo in Naples will unite Russians and Ukrainians in the name of peace, which will host world stars from both countries, including Gurskaya, on April 4 in the 'Ballet for peace'.
S.
eight bombs fell on Kiev also killed Oksana Shvets, 67, known in her homeland for her work on the big screen and in the theater
.
She had studied at the Ivan Franko Theater Studio and the Kiev State Theater Arts Institute before pursuing a ten-year career.
She had worked in numerous theaters in her country such as the Ternopil Music and Drama Theater and the Kiev Theater of Satire.
In addition to the theater, she had also played TV series such as the long family saga
'Dom s liliyami'
.
A veteran of the stage and screen, the actress had been awarded one of the highest artistic awards in her country.
You are not the first Ukrainian acting star to die in war.
Actor
Pasha Lee
was killed earlier this month while defending his country from Russian troops, according to a Facebook post from the Odessa International Film Festival.
