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Ukrainian ballet dancing star Artem Datsyshyn has died, three weeks after being injured in Russian shelling in Kyiv, it has been reported.
Datsyshyn, a former soloist at the National Opera of Ukraine, died in hospital, according to a Facebook post by his friend Tatiana Borovik. He was 43.
The chief stage director at the company, Anatoly Solovyanenko, has paid tribute to Datsyshyn, calling him “a great artist” and “a wonderful man”.
Russian-American choreographer Alexei Ratmansky, a former principal dancer in Kyiv and former artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow, now based in New York, stated that Datsyshyn died from “wounds received on February 26 when he got under Russian artillery fire”.
The dancer’s death follows reports that veteran Ukrainian actress Oksana Shvets has also died following a Russian rocket attack on a residential building in Kyiv.
Shvets was a company member of the city’s Young Theatre, well known...
Datsyshyn, a former soloist at the National Opera of Ukraine, died in hospital, according to a Facebook post by his friend Tatiana Borovik. He was 43.
The chief stage director at the company, Anatoly Solovyanenko, has paid tribute to Datsyshyn, calling him “a great artist” and “a wonderful man”.
Russian-American choreographer Alexei Ratmansky, a former principal dancer in Kyiv and former artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow, now based in New York, stated that Datsyshyn died from “wounds received on February 26 when he got under Russian artillery fire”.
The dancer’s death follows reports that veteran Ukrainian actress Oksana Shvets has also died following a Russian rocket attack on a residential building in Kyiv.
Shvets was a company member of the city’s Young Theatre, well known...
- 3/19/2022
- by Caroline Frost
- Deadline Film + TV
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