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A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

Kyiv City Ballet

Olga Posternak, performing with the Kyiv City Ballet.

September 27, 2022

Vaslav Nijinsky, Serge Lifar, Svetlana Zakharova, Irina Dvorovenko, Sergei Polunin—Ukrainian dancers have been lighting up the ballet stage for over a century. With Russia’s cruel and gratuitous attack on Ukraine still raging, it’s time to wrap oneself in blue and yellow for an evening with the Kyiv City Ballet. The company travels the U.S. from September 16 to October 26, and repertory will be drawn from the following: a full-length Swan Lake (choreography by Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov, and Ivan Kozlov), excerpts from Carmen, the contemporary work Thoughts, the neoclassical Tribute to Peace, and the Ukrainian folk dance Men of Kyiv. The 15-city tour stops in Detroit for one night only. —Laura Jacobs

Photo courtesy of the Kyiv City Ballet