Choreographer Alexei Ratmansky: 'I don't want my ballet to be staged in Russia ever again' | Ballet

When the Ukrainian invasion began, the ballet great left a show at the Bolshoi in protest. Here he reconsiders his past ties with Russia and the silence of the cultural elite in the country of his birth

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