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We don't dance under the bombs, even if it would be the best response to the absurd violence unleashed in Ukraine.
At the Odessa Opera, the stage is closed and the curtain heavy.
The corridors rustle only with the sinister music of the sirens, when Russian planes or missiles threaten.
Last Saturday, one of these death machines hit the old port city again, killing six people including a 3-month-old baby, his young mother and his grandmother.
After having inspired so many authors and composers, the madness of men is played out this time in real life.
Star dancer of the Odessa Ballet, Sergei Dotsenko has the sad smile of men who are thrown off balance.
He does not understand this war waged by a former brother country, the country of the Bolshoi and the Mariinsky.
A few days before the outbreak of hostilities, on February 24, he was dancing in Italy, in Trieste.
"
At that time, we couldn't believe such madness
," he said.
On the 25th, we were to start a new...
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