(5 Apr 2022)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Naples - 4 April 2022
1. Dancers on stage bowing at end of show
Headline: Russians and Ukrainians dance for peace
2. Dancers Olga Smirnova and Victor Caixeta performing on stage
Annotation: World renowned ballet dancers from the two countries at war danced together to appeal for peace.
3. Smirnova and Caixeta dancing on stage
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Olga Smirnova, Russian dancer
"I think it's important in this situation, in this time, to be together on the stage, to do little things, the smallest things (even) we can do for Ukraine."
5. Various of Smirnova and Caixeta on stage, applause
Annotation: A Russian ballerina who quit the Bolshoi Ballet and a Ukrainian ballerina who fled the war in her homeland over the Russian invasion danced in the San Carlo theatre in Naples to raise funds for the Red Cross and champion peace in Ukraine.
6. Audience clapping
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Anastasya Gurskaya, Ukrainian dancer
"I've never danced with stars like today, with world stars of ballet, and I am so excited about it and I don't know why (this happened to me). Because I am really happy I am here and I can help and support my country with my dancing."
8. Various of dancers Anastasya Gurskaya and Stanislav Olshanskyi on stage
9. Various of protesters outside the San Carlo theatre
Annotation: Just before the show a dozen protesters demonstrated outside the theater to show discontent over the participation of Russian dancers on the stage.
10. Protesters outside the theatre
11. Ukrainian dancer Denis Cherevichko and Russian dancer Maria Yakovleva dancing on stage
Annotation: Ukrainian and Russian dancers, Denis Cherevichko and dancer Maria Yakovleva, embody how art can overcome hatred.
12. Yakovleva hugging Cherevichko
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Denis Cherevichko 32, Ukrainian dancer
"We are really good friends and partners. We are supporting each other all the time and especially right now it' s very important to be both of us and to support (each other) and to show to the people that love, peace art, support and help will save this world."
14. Cherevichko and Yakovleva dancing on stage
Annotation: Ukrainian authorities reported bodies of 410 civilians in Kyiv-area towns that were recently taken from Russian forces.
15. Cherevichko and Yakovleva on stage
Annotation: Associated Press journalists saw the bodies of at least 21 civilians in various spots around Buch, northwest of the capital.
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Stanislav Olshanskyi, 28, Ukrainian dancer:
"I lived in Bucha five years, it's my city, I know this city, I walked in the streets, these photos, what I saw... I know this place, I know what it is. It's horrible, I can't think about this, it's like it's not in this world, it can't be true."
17. Wide of dancers on stage at end of show
STORYLINE:
As foreign outrage mounted over evidence of possible executions and other atrocities by Russian forces in Ukraine, world renowned ballet dancers from the two countries at war danced together in a suggestive performance in Naples to appeal for peace.
A Ukrainian ballerina who fled the war in her homeland and a Russian ballerina who quit the Bolshoi Ballet over the Russian invasion danced in the San Carlo theatre in Naples.
Monday night's sold-out benefit performance sought to raise funds for the Red Cross and champion the cause of peace in Ukraine.
Long time dancing partners Denis Cherevichko, from Ukraine, and Maria Yakovleva from Russia, symbolically opened the gala peace event on Monday with a performance accompanied by music from Fryderyk Chopin.
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