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These heroes of kyiv who dance despite the war

2022-12-22T15:30:15.244Z


REPORT - The National Ballet of Ukraine is at the Champs-Élysées theater for seventeen performances of Giselle. A kind of miracle.


The public applauded with a very particular fervor this Wednesday evening the first performance of

Giselle

at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées.

Even if the act of the shadows is moving, the ovations did not resonate like those which one releases to salute the level of a performance.

The audience was standing in a way of a guard of honour.

With respect, with love.

The dancers had given their all.

Everything, that is to say what they have in their hearts.

Their timidity to find a "normal" scene - what's more in Paris, the world capital of dance - after a year of war and the doubt of not being able to make their dance as vibrant as before.

Their fatigue which finally lets go after the fear and the cold which stiffen the body.

The public felt that.

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The Kyiv National Ballet is there.

And this is an opportunity to salute heroes.

Everything is improbable in this tour of the dancers in Paris.

On Saturday, the bus that left kyiv at 11 a.m. for Warsaw airport broke down at four…

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Source: lefigaro

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