Like many dancers, Adrian Blake Mitchell and Andrea Laššáková moved to St. Petersburg to chase their dreams of dancing in place where people live and breathe ballet. That all changed when Russia invaded Ukraine.
Russia opened its ballet world to the West in the decades after the Soviet Union’s collapse. In 2011, American ballet dancer David Hallberg became the first foreigner to be named a principal dancer at the storied Bolshoi Ballet.
While in Russia, the pair didn’t involve themselves in politics, despite seeing many pro-democracy protesters marching outside their apartment. But once across the border, and now in the U.S., the dance partners have been vocal about their opposition to the war. Mitchell believes dancers, both Russian and the few foreign ones who remain, may oppose the war but fear the consequences of protesting.“You hear very few Russian dancers speaking out, but many of them want to leave because they want to be able to speak out,” he said.
Since arriving in the U.S., Mitchell and Lassakova have been traveling the country, doing benefit performances and giving talks in support of Ukraine.
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