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The scene is surprisingly ordinary. A dancer is speaking in a pleasant office at an opera house in a European city as sounds of a performance stream in from the stage. A window opens onto trees whose leaves rustle in a slight breeze. It could be Zurich or Nantes, but it’s not. It’s Kyivbest slot sites, a city that in the last few months has been subjected, like much of Ukraine, to a steady barrage of Russian missile and drone attacks that have injured and killed scores and left many without electricity for several hours a day.

Still, the National Ballet of Ukraine, based in the stately Kyiv Opera House, performs twice a week — before the war it was four times — as does the opera company, for reduced audiences of about 450 (down from about 1,300). That way if there is an attack, everyone can fit into the shelter below. After these interruptions, performers and viewers return to their places and the performance picks up where it left off.

“That’s life on the stage,” Mykyta Sukhorukov, a principal dancer in the company, said in a recent video call from that pleasant office at the opera house. “We try our best. After two and a half years, unfortunately, it feels almost normal.”

At least the opera house has not been damaged or destroyed, unlike those in the Ukrainian cities of Kharkiv and Mariupol. The electricity supply in recent months has also been steady; not so in the dancers’ apartments.

The company has been able to perform not only at home, but also abroad on tours to Europe and Asia. And this fall, for the first time since Ukraine declared its independence in 1991, company dancers will perform in New York. On Sept. 18 and 19, a group will appear at the Fall for Dance festival at City Center. And then on Oct. 15 and 16, a larger contingent will dance alongside the Canadian-Ukrainian folk troupe Shumka, also at New York City Center, as part of a three-week East Coast tour.

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