(Reuters) – Away from the combating in Ukraine, Russian and Ukrainian ballet dancers rubbed shoulders in London on Saturday in a charity event that united a number of the world’s main dance performers for humanitarian aid in the war-torn jap European nation.
About 20 dancers, with glistening our bodies and sleek strikes, obtained a thunderous applause from the packed auditorium on the London Coliseum theatre for the ‘Dance for Ukraine’ gala.
“We have so many family members again house. We could not simply sit idly at house and simply watch information, we wished to do one thing,” Ivan Putrov, who’s from Ukraine and organised the event with Romanian Alina Cojocaru, advised Reuters.
Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, an assault Moscow calls a “particular operation” to demilitarise its neighbour.
The U.N. human rights workplace has mentioned at the very least 847 civilians had been killed and 1,399 wounded in Ukraine as of Friday. More than 3.3 million refugees have fled Ukraine by way of its western border, with round 2 million extra displaced contained in the nation.
Some viewers members have been draped in the Ukrainian flag for the event, with dancers from many international locations together with Brazil, Italy and Britain offering glamour to the stage that was lit in shades of yellow and blue.
Katja Khaniukova from Ukraine and Natalia Osipova from Russia have been amongst those that took half. There have been additionally dancers from the United States, France, Japan and Argentina on the event, which the organisers mentioned raised at the very least 140,000 kilos ($184,520.00) for the Disasters Emergency Committee’s Ukraine attraction.
“So lots of the artists contacted us wanting to hitch so it’s inspiring how overwhelming the help is from the folks, however we’d like extra help in Ukraine, extra help from totally different governments around the globe,” mentioned Putrov.
($1 = 0.7587 kilos)
(Writing by Muralikumar Anantharaman; Editing by Shri Navaratnam)
