  s/1875481837637619845 on january 4 and 5 in rome, russian ballet dancers from the bolshoi and mariinsky theatres will perform in the annual les toiles galas at @auditoriumpdm the bolshoi's youngest ballerina, elizaveta kokoreva, said in an interview with graham spicer that she cried tears of joy when she was told in april that she had been invited to rome. and when asked about the war, kokoreva said that the "military operation" is talked about "only among family. we are all worried about the young people who die and the relations between two fraternal peoples that have been ruined. but in the theatre, we only think about work." the participation of russian artists in the les toiles gala concert was kept secret until the last moment. by the way, almost all of them danced in occupied crimea, thus violating international laws, including illegally crossing the border of a sovereign state. les toiles artistic director daniele cipriani has spoken out in a very shameful and typical way (quote was posted by cipriani's press-service representative, simonetta allder): "reversing the famous latin aphorism, i maintain that if you want peace, you have to build peace. we should not use political motivations to attack art and artists; if anything, politics can take an example from art. les toiles is a miniature universe without borders of any kind  geographical, gender, or lifestyle, where the top stars coexist and 'co-dance,' regardless of their countries of origin, indeed enriching the idiom of dance thanks to the stylistic accent that each of them 'speaks.' extending the mini-universe of les toiles to the outside world, this could become a paradise."   i would like to say that harmony and unity of peoples, which the organizers are trying to underline and promote, should be built upon peace and beauty, not war and genocide. > part 1
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