He knew it Thursday, right away:
“I followed the French and European media, the invasion was possible even if like many I believed that it would not happen.
I looked around: life in Moscow hadn't changed, the shops, the shows, everything seemed normal.
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Laurent Hilaire went through a moment of amazement.
He saw the danger but also thought of his dancers and the company, 120 young Russian and foreign people who joined the Stanislavski to work with him, magnetized by his artistic project.
Would he really have to leave this troupe that he had put in his hands and watched grow for five years?
What would become, after his departure, of those he had listened to, guided, to whom he had given an incredible appetite for dancing?
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