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How White Russian ballet dancers in Shanghai sparked a revolution in China’s dance scene…

Posted: November 2nd, 2020 | No Comments »

A long form piece by me in the South China Morning Post weekend magazine on those Russian emigre dancers, choerographers and ballet teachers who came to Shanghai, launched a craze for ballet, and taught a new generation of Shanghailander and Shanghainese ballerinas to dance that created ripples throughout the global ballet world….



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