The United Ukrainian Ballet represent the country's cultural frontline against the Russian invasion.
By Kate VandyDressed in the colours of Ukraine, a ballet dancer moves delicately across the stage of Rotterdam's medieval St Lawrence Church.
"I still think about how I could do more for my country. I think about this every day, but while my friends and family fight for Ukraine, for now my contribution is to dance for Ukraine," he explained. "It's important everyone does what they can do the best. We are dancers. So right now we dance for Ukraine. And we dance for freedom," Oleksii says.Oleksii dodged bombs in Kharkiv for months before going to the Netherlands to perform
Wearing a donated black and pink tracksuit, her hair tied neatly back into a bun, she describes hiding for two weeks with her family in a bomb shelter before deciding to leave Ukraine alone in the hope of finding work."The war made me not want to dance. I was depressed and had lost inspiration for life," Svetlana says, "but here I started to feel myself again, and I found a new purpose.
"I think it's important to block Russian dance in the world," says Vladyslav. "I think we need a quarantine from it now. Maybe not forever, but for me, personally, at this moment it's not right.""If some people don't want to dance it, it's completely their choice. But we also have people who really want to do it."
The broadcast of Swan Lake in the former Soviet Union was often a sign of political upheaval - state TV interrupted programming by airing the ballet on a loop after the deaths of multiple leaders as well as during a failed coup against Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991.
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