#I guess some people think differently but yes I understand the Mariinsky is a state sponsored theatre and I understand not having the
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maria khoreva: has been posting on Instagram about how she'll be performing at the YAGP New York gala for a while now, obviously not keeping it a secret at all and lots of ballet people have been discussing it
some stupid representative in albany: you kept this a SECRET from us so we couldn't protest because you were trying to sneak in the Russians under the radar how dare you they're representatives of Putin >:(
#well if they were real good people they would have lost everything in their lives to speak out against a tyrannical government and end up#changing nothing obviously#I guess some people think differently but yes I understand the Mariinsky is a state sponsored theatre and I understand not having the#theatre over here to perform as a company. but not allowing individual dancers over here to perform as individuals who happen to work#for the theater is so stupid to me#yes the state funds the theater. American tax dollars contribute to various arts funds here#I don't want to be called Biden's representative when I go to other countries for work#ok sounds good you first#2/3 of the 'Russian' dancers invited are May Nagahisa and Kimin Kim who are not even Russian#and trust me I literally wrote the book (thesis) on Russian ballet as propaganda I literally did do exactly that#I still find this moronic. No one is out here doing Spartak or the Red Poppy or Taras Bulba or anything like that#stupid stupid stupid
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