Choreographer Alexei Ratmansky: 'I don't want my ballet to be staged in Russia ever again'
When the Ukrainian invasion began, the ballet great left a show at the Bolshoi in protest. Here he reconsiders his past ties with Russia and the silence of the cultural elite in the country of his birth One night in July, the curtain closed on the United Ukrainian Ballet's performance of Giselle at the Segerstrom Center in Orange County, California, and then it opened again. On stage was the Ukrainian soldier Oleksan…