dancers. alexei ratmansky is a world renowned choreographer with roots in both russia and ukraine, once director of the bolshoi ballet in moscow, and now putting on a special production of gisele with the united ukrainian ballet to show the world ukrainian culture lives on. has ballet become a battleground? alexei ratmansky, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much, an honour to be here. you hardtalk. thank you very much, an honour to be here. an honour to be here. you are here in london an honour to be here. you are here in london because - an honour to be here. you are here in london because you i here in london because you mounting this extraordinary set of performances of gisele. performed by ukrainian dancers. can you go about putting on how can you go about putting on a performance with ukrainians when their country is at war? there was an extraordinary project, it started in march, i received a call from my friend in holland, she is a former principal ballerina, and
choreographing, creating ballet, but i found it did, and i used ukrainian music and ukrainian design. it is going to premiere next week in seattle, and it is a different new. i have never went potty training dancers since my youth in kyiv. it is a different me, i have never worked with your training dancers since my youth. that is where we dancers since my youth. that is where we have dancers since my youth. that is where we have to dancers since my youth. that is where we have to end. - dancers since my youth. that is where we have to end. alexei l where we have to end. alexei ratmansky, it has been a pleasure talking to you on hardtalk. pleasure talking to you on hardtalk