These Dancers Escaped the War. Their Journeys Are Just Beginning.

 

Victoria Glazunova, Kate Myklukha and Polina Loshchylina of the Dutch National Ballet.

“AMSTERDAM — Kate Myklukha pushed herself up onto the tip of her left foot, then stretched her arms out in front of her as if hugging a tree.As a pianist at the Dutch National Ballet here played a jaunty tune, several of Myklukha’s classmates wobbled from side to side, struggling to hold the delicate pose. But Myklukha held her balance, then spun around and dipped into a knee bend, before gracefully waving an arm skyward.During that short sequence last month, Myklukha, 17, looked as if she had been a member of the ballet’s junior company for years. Yet, she had arrived in Amsterdam only two and a half weeks before, having escaped the war in Ukraine. ...”

NY Times

W - Kyiv National Academic Molodyy Theatre, W - Kyiv Modern-Ballet

The Quietus - Bloody Ground, Fertile Soil 1: Making Music Under Fire In Ukraine (Audio)

 

“When my aunt gave her passport to the russian he asked, 'Why are your hands shaking?'"