Ukrainian ballerinas perform anti-Putin Swan Lake in front of tanks

ByGramilano Reading Time: 2 minutes

Swan Lake for Putin in Odessa 2In Odessa four brave cygnets danced to Tchaikovsky’s music in front of military tanks.

The Ukrainian ballerinas were outside Odessa’s military history museum, and, reports The Moscow Times, “was a nod to a Soviet-era tradition” when “state-run television traditionally aired classical music during periods of great change in the Soviet Union.”

Oleksiy Honcharenko, who presents the event on the YouTube clip, said,

For millions of Soviet people, a televised performance of   signaled a change in the country’s leadership — either the death of the Secretary-General, or his ouster as a result of a coup.

Because has made a fatal mistake by unleashing aggression against , today Odessa, as a cultural capital, performs for him this portentous work.

Swan Lake for Putin in Odessa

The video was relayed on Ukrainian television last Wednesday, and soon after was put up online.

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Graham Spicer, aka 'Gramilano', is a writer, director and photographer based in Milan. He was a regular columnist for Opera Now magazine and wrote for the BBC until transferring to Italy. His articles have appeared in various publications from Woman's Weekly to Gay Times, and he wrote the Danza in Italia column for Dancing Times magazine. Graham was the historical advisor on Codice Carla, the 2023 documentary on Italian ballerina Carla Fracci.

Graham also works as a dance photographer, and his photos have appeared in many books, theatre programmes, and magazines, including Dancing Times, Dance Spirit and Ballet2000, as well as all the major Italian newspapers.

He is a member of the Dance Section of The Critics’ Circle.

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