while in the custody of the morality police had saddened everyone and was being investigated with transparency. now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. a few days ago, oleksandr shapoval, one of ukraine s leading ballet dancers, was killed while serving with the ukrainian army, fighting the russian invasion. art and culture are not immune from the impact of war. my guest today knows that well. alexei ratmansky is a world renowned choreographer, with roots in both russia and ukraine. once director of the bolshoi ballet in moscow, he is now putting on a special production of giselle with the united ukrainian ballet to show the world ukrainian culture lives on. has ballet become a battleground? thank you very much. it s an honour to be here. we re delighted to have you here. you are here in london because you are mounting this extraordinary set of performances of giselle, performed by ukrainian dancers. how can you go about putting on a performance wi
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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